AIBU to think this Poundland baby vest...

[Robstersgirl]

Is really shit. Haven’t they heard of the me too campaign? Who approved this? AIBU on thinking this is wrong on so many levels.

@Cheeserton

'lock up your daughters' applied to women? Not heard that in my life. Odd claim indeed.

Really???

It's a very common, albeit rather dated phrase...

And a few songs have had the name...

Well yes, the phrase is obviously well known. It's not generally applied to women though, is it? It's regarding the 'threat' posed by males TO said daughters, no?? Other posters claimed it was applied to both men and women.

Doesn't "Lock Up" refer to a Chastity belt? Rather than locking someone in a cupboard?

@Cheeserton

Well yes, the phrase is obviously well known. It's not generally applied to women though, is it?

Yes. It is.

It's just a jokey saying. Chill the beans!

You’d cleverly switch the saying to lock up your sons.
I’d hazard a guess if the op had managed to get past her initial excitement, there would be a pink one saying ‘lock up your sons’.

Jesus Christ.... can we not have anything without someone getting bloody offended. It’s a phrase been used for decades. The same as, he’s gonna be a heartbreaker when he’s older....
the fact your surprised something like this is in Poundland proves how out of touch you are 😩😩

Oh God, I bought one of these tops for my ds when he was 2. It made me lol because it was funny, the idea that a 2yo could be a threat.

@Blankiefan you can't go by votes, not everyone has the option to do that, I don't think anyone on the app has, it's pretty pointless 🤷🏻‍♀️

LivingDeadGirlUK you made me spit my chewing gum out at the screen!
i dont think its ever meant they are a deviant.more they are so adorable everyone will love them.

I agree with a PP. Doesn't lock up your daughters mean the lad is irresistible not a bloody sexual predator.

YABU

It's not to my taste, but I definitely don't take that phrase to mean that someone is a "predator". As others have said, it's intended to mean that someone ("your daughters" or "your sons") is so gobsmackingly attractive that they'll have a trail of admirers, and hearts will be broken.

Ugh, no, I meant that someone is so attractive that your sons/daughters will BE the trail of admirers.

There's more to worry about in this world -like sexual violence against women and girls, the fact that 1 in 4 women experience domestic abuse in their life time, the fact that there are more men called Dave running FTSE 100 companies that there are women, that 2/3rds of MPs making decisions on my behalf are men, 4 out of 5 people humanly trafficked are women, that the viagra pill provides total relief for period pain but it was decided to be manufactured so that men could get a hard on .... but casual sexism has no effect of course!

Even of you discount the idea that it's painting men (and baby boys as that is the intended wearer) as sexual deviants. Surely in today's society the inherent assumption that baby boys will be heartbreaking only to daughters, or vice versa with the "hello boys" female version, is just so wrong. People buy items like this for their children, display them in picture frames because its cute then wonder why said child struggles mentally to accept homosexuality in themselves or others.
Then there's the sweat shop aspect.
All in all I agree with pp that it's the steady drip of little things like this that lead to our society being so unempathetic of others.

I'm usually on the "get a grip OP" for this sort of thing, but this particular one actually makes me grimace. It's properly not good.

I read into that as the other way around OP - whenever someone would say that about my son as a baby, they meant, the girls will all be after him, not that he will be after them.

It’s an old saying that means that they are handsome and will have lots of admirers, you are making it out to mean something completely different. I’m not saying I’d dress one of my children in something like this personally, it just doesn’t mean anything offensive.

@SheSaidNoFuckThat

The voting remains a representative sample. 704 people.have now voted which is more than statistically robust. Most people (2/3) think the OP is right.

What.

I'm genuinely shocked most voters agree with the OP. This over-sensitive, offense-taking generation is ridiculous. :(

I agree op, I'm uncomfortable with it.

A lot of you are very naive and innocent if you think the phrase has anything to do with good looks.

mathsnxiety are you from the U.K.? Or young maybe.
Because honestly this phrase has been around decades and always meant “the girls will be after him”.
It could be seen as unsexist because it assumes women will be doing the chasing, although I guess the premise of the humour is that women don’t normally.

It’s in Poundland because it didn’t sell elsewhere.
It’s silly and totally vacuous to stick such ridiculous things on a baby intentionally (that said, I’d have done it if there’d been a poo accident and we were out-any port in a storm). But ‘vile’ as pp have said? No. Awful people do really vile things to babies and this isn’t one.
Sorry OP. I’m joining the ‘get a grip’ gang. Although we are seemingly in a minority.

Yuk. Yuk. Yuk. That’s right, bring out the baby chastity belts.