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To think 6 year olds should not be wearing this

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welliments · 01/02/2018 17:57

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...

To think 6 year olds should not be wearing this
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Rewn7 · 01/02/2018 20:13

Seriously... of course it’s a double entendre but not one a 6 year old will get. That’s you projecting your adult thoughts onto her. Nike “just do it” slogan must put you in an utter tail spin.

Honestly, if she’s a dancer then it means she’ll dance with attitude to her.

Plus I hate to break it to you but they’ll be hearing far worse phrases and words than this in the school playground.

CandyYumYum · 01/02/2018 20:14

I used to have a badge on my labcoat saying "Microbiologists do it with culture and sensitivity"

Top geeking there! Grin

IMightMentionGriddlebone · 01/02/2018 20:15

Here's a Scientists Do It t-shirt web shop!

Scientists Do It!

DreamyMcDreamy · 01/02/2018 20:15

I feel like I’m in an alternate universe - how can so many of you not be familiar with the do it ???

Of course I've heard of the other meaning of "do it,"
I just think you have to be of a warped mindset to automatically link a child's dance hoodie to sex. To me, it immediately said "dancers do it with attitude." Dance.
To others it obviously means the dancers (child dancers) are being sexualised and it means sex.
Ooookay then. Hmm

DreamyMcDreamy · 01/02/2018 20:15

Seriously... of course it’s a double entendre but not one a 6 year old will get. That’s you projecting your adult thoughts onto her.

Exactly!

AuntieStella · 01/02/2018 20:15

It's a joke that's as old as the hills.

It was everywhere in the 1980s.

I thought onky die-hard Benny Hill fans would still be wearing it on T-shirts, and I definitely wouldn't let a child wear such a slogan.

TheGoldenBowl · 01/02/2018 20:15

I immediately saw the double entendre. It's pretty obvious.

I'm not 'offended' - I just saw something that is there.

It definitely is a reference to sex. Not everyone will see that - children obviously won't. But it could stil be problematic.

Lol at all the posters basically arguing black is white, and berating the OP for having a 'dirty mind' Grin

IMightMentionGriddlebone · 01/02/2018 20:16

Physicists do it with charm!

Heh. Grin

tolerable · 01/02/2018 20:17

i dont find it utterly bizzarre that you object. in principle. to the extent that it might cause to write and highlight your point. it is subject to misinterpretation,or could be your bang on.if you dont like it-dont buy it..have a outstanding option that your sure shes gonna choose and avoid having to explain at all. she doesnt have to deal with your(reasonable)objection at ten.

TheGoldenBowl · 01/02/2018 20:18

Nike slogan must put you in an utter tail spin

Recognising that something exists doesn't equate to feeling a certain way about it! I recognise that a double entendre underpins the hoodie slogan, but I don't necessarily have any strong feelings about it...

EmpireVille · 01/02/2018 20:18

Alma these posters pretending they don't know what the OP is on about.

Back in the real world OP, yes, it's obviously meant to be a bit smutty. No, a 6 year old wouldn't get the joke but still you're buying into a sex-based gag. I wouldn't buy it.

EmpireVille · 01/02/2018 20:19

*Alma = all these

Notthesoap · 01/02/2018 20:19

Well.... this thread has been an education. I never would have thought of this hoody as having sexual connotations because I am totally unaware of the other slogans such as 'divers do it underwater'...

Mind you, had I have been aware of the other smutty slogans, I STILL wouldn't have associated THIS hoody with them. It just looks like a cool hoody apart from the colour Confused

AnotherQuoll · 01/02/2018 20:21

I think it's pretty 'off' that people are accusing OP of having her "mind in the gutter", being "nuts" and imagining it. Those of us who have seen the t-shirts, coffee cups and adverts are telling you the "X does it with X" slogan has a long history of intended double entendre. We're not lying.

The fact that little kids (and maybe 20-somethings) won't "get it" but older people looking at it most likely will, is not a comfort.

Shimmershimmerandshine · 01/02/2018 20:21

As someone said upthread not it's probably old fashioned in its double entendre and you are a millennial I believe Wink

I on the other hand cannot believe people over the age of 10 would not see the innuendo.

Nottheduchessofcambridge · 01/02/2018 20:22

No I wouldn’t put my child in a top with a double entendre slogan. She may not understand, her friends may not understand, but I understand and a lot of others will understand that it is a reference to sexual positions.

MissWilmottsGhost · 01/02/2018 20:23

I was rather young and oblivious then but surely the Nike "just do it" slogan came out about the same time as all the x do it y jokes and it was meant to be suggestive too?

I've now got Wham earworms if you're gonna do it do it right right do it with me Hmm

IMightMentionGriddlebone · 01/02/2018 20:23

Until now, I thought everyone over 13 got 'blah blah group do it with blah blah" jokes. Grin

DreamyMcDreamy · 01/02/2018 20:24

The fact that little kids (and maybe 20-somethings) won't "get it" but older people looking at it most likely will, is not a comfort

Well, I'm not a little kid, or even a 20 something, and am aware (now that it's been pointed out that some people automatically think it's all about sex) but I still can't get worked up about it.
You have to really be looking hard to be offended to get upset over this hoodie and say that children shouldn't be wearing it.

Nottheduchessofcambridge · 01/02/2018 20:25

Thing is, it’s a pretty good slogan if it wasn’t aimed at children. Maybe if an 18 yo dancer was wearing it, it would be more acceptable. Not a child though, that’s just wrong.

gillybeanz · 01/02/2018 20:26

Don't all good dancers, dance with attitude.
I don't see a problem tbh.

SimonBridges · 01/02/2018 20:28

Oh, good God,is that what people are seeing?! Honestly, seeing "dancers do it with attitude" and immediately jumping to "it must mean sex" instead of dancing when it's on a dance hoodie says an awful lot more about your gutter mind than anything else!

It’s because it was such a common thing in the 80s, that is why people are thinking of it.
It was like a meme of its day.

To put it into modern context. If you saw this image on Sean Bean you would read certain things straight into it. Seeing xx do it yy is like that for us in our 40s. It just happens to be sex. It doesn’t me our minds are in the gutter. It’s just shorthand.

To think 6 year olds should not be wearing this
IMightMentionGriddlebone · 01/02/2018 20:28

Honestly, Dreamy, no intense gazing was necessary. I and others of my, my, my generaaaation just know that line on sight.

MissWilmottsGhost · 01/02/2018 20:30

Grin thanks for the link.

Chemists do it periodically on a table Grin

Sex jokes are funny. But not when they are about children.

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welliments · 01/02/2018 20:31

Seriously, are there still people on here who would allow their child to wear this, now that we’ve established it as a fact that this is a double entendre which could mean:

A) that dancers dance with attitude

OR

B) that dancers have sex with attitude

Seriously, you’d put your hand up to that?

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