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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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UnicornRainbows · 01/02/2018 20:31

People seriously think Nikes slogan is about sex? Hmm

You know the 80's was cracking on for 30/40 years ago now people? There's a huge chance whoever designed this top is completely unaware of whatever went on in the 80's. I was born in the early 80's and have never heard of the x does it in y stuff.

I can't say that I see it as sexual innuendo at all. It means dancers dance with attitude to me. Which they do.

masktaster · 01/02/2018 20:32

I'm starting to feel like I'm an outlier in being in my mid 20s and seeing it straight away. Heck, my 14 year old brother would.

ChasedByBees · 01/02/2018 20:32

I totally get it OP. Amazed that so many mumsnetters are so innocent here. Grin

Shimmershimmerandshine · 01/02/2018 20:33

I suspect it's only on this thread mask Grin

Nottheduchessofcambridge · 01/02/2018 20:33

gillybeanz you have not been reading. The top is not about dancing!. 🤦🏽‍♀️ I’m not sure how we can spell it out more than we have. They could have put any other slogan on that top, they chose to put one that is synonymous with slogans about sex. The wording is exactly the same.

Nottheduchessofcambridge · 01/02/2018 20:34

Unicorn, OP is not talking about the Nike advert.

DreamyMcDreamy · 01/02/2018 20:35

I'm loving the fact that people are automatically assuming I'm young and therefore must be clueless that it can have other meanings.
I never said it didn't. I just said it's interesting that's where your mind jumps straight to.

AuntieStella · 01/02/2018 20:36

You see I wouldn't know the significance of that picture.

But if lots of people started telling me what it was, and that it was a hugely well-known meme, and that it just wouldn't be fair for a child to have people looking and seeing the meme as a meaning that absolutely leaps out; then I'd believe them. And I'd think very hard as to whatether I would want older children and other adults looking at my young DC wearing a smutty joke of cliche format.

gillybeanz · 01/02/2018 20:38

Not

If you like to sexualise everything then yes, you have a point.
Only dirty minds think a child's top is about sex.

CandyYumYum · 01/02/2018 20:38

It's a long established turn of phrase referencing sex. So no wonder that's where many people's minds jumped straight to.

Notthesoap · 01/02/2018 20:38

Haha @Shimmershimmerandshine indeed I am a millennial as you will have seen on another thread Wink

In fairness I remember people at school using the phrase 'do it' meaning sex but we didn't really have a clue what sex was iyswim?

Still wouldn't have made the link with this hoody but the more I read about 'xx do it with xx' and so forth, I realise how deeply ingrained that is in some pp's memories Grin

Gabilan · 01/02/2018 20:39

am aware (now that it's been pointed out that some people automatically think it's all about sex)

It was a whole series of jokes very obviously written with the intent of being about sex. That's why people think it. Otherwise they'd all have been phrased differently.

BrunoJenkinsProblem · 01/02/2018 20:40

Hmmm

To think 6 year olds should not be wearing this
newsparklythings · 01/02/2018 20:40

I'm with you OP, no way would I want my young daughter walking around in that. Disgusting.

UnicornRainbows · 01/02/2018 20:40

I saw someone else mention it Duchess

DreamyMcDreamy · 01/02/2018 20:40

If you like to sexualise everything then yes, you have a point. Only dirty minds think a child's top is about sex.

Exactly.

scaevola · 01/02/2018 20:40

You don't have to have a particularly dirty mind to spot these jokes - they were everywhere

Don't like rude jokes on children's Tshirts

Do like some of the nerdy ones linked - especially 'statisticians do all the standard deviations'

CandyYumYum · 01/02/2018 20:42

Is that Robert Plant? He looks eminently shaggable there.

MissWilmottsGhost · 01/02/2018 20:43

Quick google shows Nike happened to come up with their just do it slogan right in the middle of the craze for x do it with y jokes. Coincidence I'm sure.....because isn't it illegal to use sex to advertise stuff?

Like FCUK only ever stood for French Connection United Kingdom, right?

BlueMirror · 01/02/2018 20:46

I'd probably let my kid wear it. You would have to be really looking for the rude interpretation. No explanation would be needed as a child would just assume 'it' meant dance. As I did before this thread. As a sentence it makes perfect sense so why would a child be questioning you?

IMightMentionGriddlebone · 01/02/2018 20:46

Unicorn

It won't be a sweatshirt designed by an innocent bright young thing straight out of uni. Grin The dance merchandiser wanted to make money, and having some generic sweatshirts personalised en masse with a funny pun to do with the hobby you're catering to is always a bestseller.

For the record, this is a dancer in the attitude position, apparently.

goo.gl/images/N1psT2

Copyright: A Ballet Education- aballeteducation.com/2016/03/28/notes-on-the-styles-of-attitude-derriere/

SinceWhenDid · 01/02/2018 20:46

Yes only perverts think a child's top could be about sex...

To think 6 year olds should not be wearing this
80sMum · 01/02/2018 20:48

Of course the OP doesn't have her head in the gutter. I can't believe so many people don't understand what a double entendre is and I also can't believe that they've never heard 'do it' as a euphemism for sex

^^This, with bells on!! I am astonished that so many people don't understand the concept of double entendre/innuendo.

Of course the "do it" refers to sex!! What else could it possibly be intended to mean?!

Nottheduchessofcambridge · 01/02/2018 20:48

only dirty minds think a child’s top is about sex
Oh my good god, troll off Gilly
If a child’s top had “shag” written on it, would you say it’s about a style of carpet? I don’t know how it can be more obvious. Pop your DC in it, go ahead. The stupidity on people astounds me.

IMightMentionGriddlebone · 01/02/2018 20:49

Here's another: ballerinas do it in many positions!

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