...to hate the message on this wall art?

[ShakinScarecrow]

I saw this in The Range, and I've seen similar memes on social media.

It annoys me that it suggests women are unable to be forthright and use passive aggressive comments instead.

I don't think this is the case for most women who are perfectly capable of being open and honest.

Or is it just a 'joke'?

This is a PURE tack. Tasteless, pointless and cheap. Similar to all that bloody Prosecco merchandise, anything that says ‘making memories’ or references ‘living your best life’. Just NO.

Having been with a man who used all those phrases, usually presaging days or weeks of sulking and not speaking, or violent blow ups, I just want to scrawl ‘fuck off to yet another fairytale’.

Eh, it's tacky, but as PP said, there's also similar tacky "art" making jokes at the expense of supposedly "masculine" behaviour.

Judging by the style, which looks like it's meant to appeal to women, I suspect more women than men would buy it, aside from the occasional man who purchases it for his wife or partner as an oh-so-amusing gift.

It’s only annoying because it’s true.

It's The Range. Same with B&M and Wilko. Their target market likes shit like that.

DH knows not to ask - as the reply would be 'because you don't help in the house' .

I think it's tacky and shite but as pp says there are so many others about men ("if a man says he'll do something, he'll do it. No need to remind him every six months"). And others about wine, cats, dogs. So I cant get het up about it.

Naff sexist nonsense. Never yet seen message wall/shelf art that isn’t naff let alone adding sexist message to it. Can’t imagine who target market for this rubbish is !

It’s. A. Joke.

A few Facebook people ( women) I know have put this up and I just scroll on by!
Just ignore it. Best way.

Who on earth would adorn their house with this sort of non witty, not pretty crap?

Banal sexist crap.

However, on the whole Brits are bad at being clear and direct.

I think men are equally capable of saying 'fine' when it isn't, 'whatever' to mean 'screw you' etc. As an observation on poor communication generally, it's quite accurate. The problem is that the behaviour is presented as female-specific.

I can't imagine why anyone would want something so negative displayed in their house. I'm not personally a fan of 'live, laugh, love' but I can understand why some might like uplifting sentiments on their walls, but this isn't uplifting. Even if you find it funny, it's not going to make you laugh every time you see it for months on end.

I think it's funny... & who am I to deny someone else's lived experience.

It’s offensive to suggest its Art.

Anyway, it’s really tacky etc.

I’ve seen this shared many times on social media - by women. Yes it’s tacky, but I can’t say I disagree with the definitions. Pretty true in my case. It’s not offensive in the slightest.

I don't like this type of signs and wouldn't buy them but obviously a market for them otherwise they wouldn't have them for sale! IMO I think it is tat for people who have nothing better to do and like to wander aimlessly around shops looking for things to buy.

I agree with a couple of other posters in that some people are very vague in explaining how they feel and I hear these type of expressions I real life when it would be better and have a much more successful outcome to be direct and say exactly how they feel etc. Indeed, some of the posts on here comment on/ask advice for things where they have been passive/vague/and not forthcoming about how they really feel. 'I'm fine' - why say it if you aren't? Or 'It's OK' and then come on here to say s happened and I am unhappy but I said 'I'm ok' ...... perhaps more assertiveness 'training' would mean less dithering/unhappiness/confusion

It's not something I'd buy, although I am guilty of the odd, terse "fine!", but clearly there is a market for it otherwise they wouldn't sell it. Just like everything in life, everyone is entitled to their opinion, some like it and find it funny, others don't. If you do, buy it, if you don't, walk on by, who are we to judge? MN can be such a hotbed of cackling mockery of other peoples so called lack of taste. It's boring and tiresome.

Besides, if you've spent more than a day on MN, you'll know there are many, many passive aggressive women who are clearly not capable of being open and direct! How many less threads would there be if the OP just TALKED to their DH / MIL/ friend / random stranger who did something wrong?

@FortunesFave

Load of old twaddle isn't it? It's like those signs which say "Eat" or "Cook" in the kitchen. I always say we should have signs that say "Piss" in the toilet or "Shag" in the bedroom.

Great business idea!

[quote ViciousJackdaw]Why were you looking as non-essential items, don't you know we're on lockdown?

Only messing, sorry I couldn't resist! I do agree with you actually. It is rather misogynistic and helps perpetuate all kinds of shite.

No, the current must-have from The Range is clearly this beauty:

www.therange.co.uk/home-furnishings/picture-frames-and-wall-art/posters-prints-and-visual-artwork/canvas-art/led-canvases/enchanted-unicorn-fibre-optic-canvas/#256709[/quote]
Fuck me that's bad! Enchanted unicorn. As if there's any other sort!

It's meant to be lighthearted , I think some people love to take offence even though they know none is meant.

I suspect that my Gdd would adore that unicorn picture.
(She’s 5.)

We've got something similar in the downstairs loo, with one next to it asking chaps to stand closer as "it" is smaller than they think.

They're a bit of fun. And a shitload better than those "instructions for life" that that the Insta-gang have written on their walls, because they are too thick to remember them... (Live, laugh, love etc.)

YABU.

I just see it as yet more tat from The Range really

That kind of thing pisses me off too - reinforcing this idea that women are all passive aggressive and never say things directly. Shit like this is why women don't get taken as seriously as men 'Oh women! They're so complicated and hard to understand! At least you know where you are with a man!'

Casually sexist crap with no intelligence or wit behind it. YANBU.