So much wrong with this nasty rabbit weirdness John Lewis, WTF?!?

[supwithatthen]

www.johnlewis.com/pols-potten-money-box-playful-bunny-gold/p3541360

Hmm, well looking at piggy bank for new baby in the family (JLewis is my go to for lovely baby gifts), and found this when I searched for money box. An upside down "playful" rabbit with bound looking arms designed so that pennies are posted into the slot between it's legs. It is astoundingly crass and revolting.

How to take an innocent trinket and turn it unmentionable, what were the buyers thinking? Hey look we can do the degrade women and sexualise children message all at the same time, all in the guise of "playful", cos if you don't laugh you are just too boring anyway. It's like they forgot about target markets all together.

This is a money box, but not one I would ever give as a gift and if I ever received one of these I wouldn't be inviting that gift giver back!

I am feeling a little at my usual failsafe JLewis right now!

I don't think IABU to think yuck, AIBU?

[whyohwhyowhydididoit]

It’s completely naff and clearly designed for adults with more money than sense not for children.

[LarryGreysonsDoor]

Not to my taste but I fail to be offended by it.

[Pretry]

Thanks a fuck. My mumsnet adverts are now full of overpriced ugly rabbits!

[DonkeyHohtay]

Well it's not my taste. But it's not demeaning and semi-pornographic and all the other things the OP seems to think it is.

[MarieIVanArkleStinks]

I can't not laugh. Alongside the arse plug and truly bizarre brand name, I thought this was a clever wind-up. I had to add it to my basket to be sure!

Ultimate verdict: the Lindt Bunny can relax: I doubt it has serious competition from this angle and certainly not at that price! What a horrendously ugly object. (It's the ugly gold finish that's so offensive to the eye BTW; the arse-slit's neither here nor there by comparison).

Oh my eyes ...

[Shinyletsbebadguys]

I love mumsnet...just when I think I'm the bonkers person someone pops alone to make me feel positively bloody normal.

OP ever heard the phrase that beauty is in the eye of the beholder ? Well so is professional offence...you can see it because you want to.

Might want to have a chat with a professional if that's where your mind goes.

However I fully agree with PP it's definately ugly and overpriced

[Tanith]

"My mumsnet adverts are now full of overpriced ugly rabbits!"

I've got a yoga one. The Advert God clearly thinks I need the exercise...

[hellenbackagen]

I'm more shocked at the price!!!!

[BananasAreTheSourceOfEvil]

£62 to shove coins into a rabbit's arse.

World's gone mad.

[Babuchak]

I am now googling inappropriate piggy banks. If anyone looks at my internet history in this office, I'll have some explaining to do

[Ellie56]

It is beyond hideous and I cannot believe that anyone in their right mind would pay £62 for it, but not sure where the sexualisation comes in to it.

[HennyPennyHorror]

BAggyPants Pols Potten is a range...a brand. Nothing to do with Pol Pot!

[TrickyKid]

I think you're maybe looking at this in a different way to most people. I don't see anything sexual or crass about it.

[S1naidSucks]

Think yourself lucky you don’t live in Russia, OP. Your children would be scarred for life.

[bluebluezoo]

No feckin way would I buy this. Posting money in a bunny's arse?

I agree. However I think the op’s “sexualising children and degrading women” along with “astoundingly crass and revolting” is OTT.

It’s just posting coins into a rabbits arse. Not everyone’s taste, but hardly offensive.

[Babuchak]

OMFG

I hope it's fake

[BananasAreTheSourceOfEvil]

@S1naidSucks it is a very visual way of showing where children come from though...

[furrybadger]

OP are you a feminist by any chance 🙄

[LuvSmallDogs]

£62 fucking quid for a money box?! That’s the weirdest thing about it. Otherwise it’s fine, I like rabbits. My kids have plastic piggy banks where it has a slot on the pig’s back, but you don’t really think of it as going into the pig’s spine, do you? So why would you think of this one as going into the rabbit’s vag or arse?

[mimbleandlittlemy]

On the Pols Potten website (Dutch company with absolutely nothing to do with Pol Pot for Pete's sake - where are people's minds at ??) it's called a 'money box bunny bum gold'. Useful fact of the day.

Wouldn't buy it myself, doesn't sexualise or degrade anyone, it's just a bit rubbish, though on their website they actually have some rather pretty china rabbit money boxes, not doing odd things. I would still shop at John Lewis - and I think you can unclutch your pearls, OP.

[SoupDragon]

1. how does it degrade women?
   
   
2. how on earth does it sexualise children?

[Pinkyponkcustard]

That’s enough internet for today

[Belenus]

My first thought was "62 quid argh". My second was "why did they cross Pol Pot with Beatrice Potter". Now I see it's because it's a Dutch company name.

[bluebluezoo]

OP are you a feminist by any chance 🙄

How do you work that out?

Being a feminist doesn’t make you see an arse up rabbit money box as some sort of sex crime.

[KidLorneRoll]

How the bloody hell does this degrade women?

Rabbits, maybe, but women??