AIBU - Pics of circus animals

[tequilasunrises]

Not sure whether I am being precious or not.

I was in The Range the other day and spotted a kids wall canvas thing with a circus scene. There was a tiger on stilts and an elephant also doing a trick.

AIBU to think that they shouldn’t be selling things that blatantly make animal rights violations look ‘kid friendly’? I want to email but DH says I’m being a nause.

What does everyone think?

Really? So kids can’t have pictures of animals now?? What is the world coming to.

Don’t like it, don’t buy it. I think you have too much time on your hands if you’re seriously considering writing an email over this...

I guess they were cartoon pictures and not actual photos which i would say you were right.

I don't know why anyone would want pictures of animal abuse on their walls. If they want animal pictures there are plenty out there without it.

I know what you mean. I've just bought some 'vintage circus' wooden skittles for my friend's baby and a different friend commented that it wasn't very PC.

I agree with you, OP. But someone will shortly tell us that we are lucky if that’s all we’ve got to worry about.

Is it animals acting like humans? As in human circus performers? If so, it's not really any different to animal animations like paw patrol.

Actual vintage photographs or drawings / cartoons? If the former YANBU, if the latter you are being a bit batshit.

Have you seen Madagascar btw?

This is what OP is talking about

No- I wouldn’t want that picture on my kid’s wall. Apart from anything else, I wouldn’t want to deal with the inevitable questions at bedtime.

YANBU. This kind of thing shouldn't be normalised, especially to children.

That’s the one @IAmALazyArse!

I don’t have kids, but I just thought it was an odd thing to have a picture of as we’ve decided as a nation that it’s animal abuse.

You're right tequilasunrises - those pictures are abhorrent.

I'm surprised your DH isn't similarly outraged.

Look OP....we also have pictures of females in princess dresses which by their very nature (corsets and length) are sexist. Not worried. They're pretty.

“Look OP....we also have pictures of females in princess dresses which by their very nature (corsets and length) are sexist. Not worried. They're pretty.”

Do you have pictures of galley skates?

Where do you draw the line, though? Many children's pictures and books are based around anthropomorphising animals - showing them dressed in human clothes and doing human things, which if imposed on a real animal would be abusive. Should Beatrix Potter be banned? What about Donald Duck?

Yes I suppose you have a point @ScreamingValenta. It’s just the fact that it represents something that we’ve outlawed for a good reason.

The difference is that animals are still being forcibly trained to perform in circuses and were in this country in the very recent past. Peter Rabbit and Donald Duck are fictional.

Rabbits have been used for cosmetic animal testing in the recent past and ducks are still abused in some countries for food purposes (cutting off their feet).

Clearly the animals in the picture are fictional too - there's no attempt to make the scene look lifelike - the 'ringmaster' is the same size as the elephant.

I am not saying any of this is right, but I would question whether this particular image is any worse than thousands of others which are accepted without question as part of children's literature and entertainment.

“Rabbits have been used for cosmetic animal testing in the recent past and ducks are still abused in some countries for food purposes (cutting off their feet). ”

But we don’t put pictures of that on our children’s bedroom walls......

@BertrandRussell exactly!

I can’t live in this world anymore if this is what people have to worry about.

“I can’t live in this world anymore if this is what people have to worry about

Just wondering-are you aware of the concept of “big” and “smaller”?

Yes, I think it's wrong.

I’m not WORRIED about it FFS, I slept fine last night!

I just wondered what other people’s ipinions were. Sheeeeeesh.