To think 6 year olds should not be wearing this

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Merchandise from a major dance show at the excel centre in London next month. They sell these, and tshirts from age 6 up.

I’m going to have to explain to a 10 year old why she can’t have a jumper...

Oh, Hello Dreamy! Now... any chance of you explaining the basis of your 'disagreement'?

'Oh Dreamy, Dreamy, Dreamy.

The thing is, you say you're disagreeing. But you're not. You haven't actually offered an alternative point of view.

You acknowledge the phrase references a common sexual innuendo joke trope. You are aware that many other adults will know this and 'see' it when they see the slogan. Yet you think it's fine to put a six yo in that shirt.

What you haven't yet explained - not once after all this time and effort - is WHY? What IS your argument?

'Dreamy says it is ok to buy a shirt with a sexual innuendo on it for a six year-old because...

It’s an intended double entendre.

It isn’t one that died out in the 80s either. My DP and I, who went to university in the 2000s, were both very familiar with the “X do it Y” joke, particularly through sweaters worn by diffère university societies.

Obviously not everyone was familiar with it but it seems bizarre to me that anyone would carry on trying to defend it unless they simply do think it’s appropriate to dress young children in clothing with sexualized slogans.

Mumsnetters do it in a tutu (because they thought they going to be dancing)

Op, I'm with you, it definitely means sex. People who didn't realise that probably weren't old enough (or maybe were too old!) in the 80's to appreciate the meaning.

I wouldn't let my daughter wear it because I wouldn't want a man who DOES realise the meaning to associate sex and my 10 year old.

Is she allowed to wear a similar hoodie or does it have to be the official one? Because I think I'd buy one the same colour and style and have it printed with the same slogan but with dance substituted for 'do it'.

And you're right about gutter mind imo, your disliking this does indicate that you're NOT in the gutter at all!

I think we're more condemned by what we approve, rather than what we disapprove. Things like this slip in gradually and over the years we accept far more 'gutter' stuff than we did years ago.

MNrs do it without the Bastard

Neah, I still disagree with most of you. The meaning has moved on. "It" is very generic now. Not narrowly sexual as the only alternative IT. Words change meaning. IT is about as sexual as a handprint.

I wouldn't let my kid wear it either, it defo is a double entendre even if it's also a ballet term (which I'd never have thought of). It's a pervert's dream.

Well I've learned something new today! Thanks for the link to the ballet definition of attitude.

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I still disagree with most of you.

But if you think most people here think it's sexual, even if you don't, then surely that means you think most people who saw a child in it walking around in real life would think it is sexual. So given you accept that it will be seen that way, do you think it's appropriate for a child to wear?