Do you find this offensive?

[Besswess88]

Someone posted this in a group I am in, and I find it really offensive AIBU?!

Did the artist post this on your group site?

It's pathetic, sad old man, Benny Hill humour. Should have died out in the 80s.

It's tacky, stupid, and unamusing. I'd think the person who found it funny enough to share was probably also tacky, stupid, and has a strange sense of humor.

Still wouldn't say I'm offended, unless it was directed specifically at me and had some personal significance.

Old time silly seaside postcard probably a Bamford. I think these were popular in the past and are now collectable.

@knittingaddict

Massive deja vu here. I've seen the same artist linked (or very similar) with a different picture and an almost identical post months back. I only go on here and moneysavingexpert, so it must have been on one of those.

I remember one, too. A series of cartoons of large-chested women in clogs, smoking and with kids hanging all over them?

@BigFatLiar

Old time silly seaside postcard probably a Bamford. I think these were popular in the past and are now collectable.

Is Bamford an artist? It doesn't look good enough to be an original saucy postcard. Looks like an amateur artist trying to draw in that style. If it's modern, the man is a dinosaur.

@Maireas

Women that challenged and continue to challenge this kind of thing were/are labelled as uptight and neurotic. It was a way to shut down our concerns. "loosen up, luv, it's only a joke"

Absolutely agree with this. Or "Oh these humourless feminists.."

Perhaps some of the people that don't find it offensive would also agree that white folk blacking up isn't offensive either. The fact that it was acceptable 60 years ago doesn't completely exonerate it. Both were of their time but I hope we've progressed just a tad.

Yes, that's the one VetiverAndLavender! The woman was drawn as an unkempt "sexy" woman with her boobs out and wrinkled stockings. Must have been on here then.

White people blacking up is comparable to a joke a man is making about fruit

Oh ok

@ItsAlwaysSunnyOnMN

White people blacking up is comparable to a joke a man is making about fruit

Oh ok

The "joke" is about a man "getting his hands on" a woman's breasts, because women's bodies are, y'know, there for men to play with and make fun of. Hilarious.

I know what the joke is about

Have had plenty of comments made about my large breasts including comments about melons and while I find them annoying and remarks made when I was younger could be upsetting I can not see the comparison to blacking up which was always caricature of black people

I have not been discriminated against because I have a large bust

Sorry Bamforth rather than Bamford. No idea if the image was one of his but its in that style. They were equally rude about men .

Tacky and cringeworthy. And yes, sexist.

It's just a stupid postcard. We'll have to get rid of every type of humour soon because there is always someone who is offended.

I have big boobs and found it funny 😄

It’s just silly. Nothing to find offensive.

People are so easily offended these days.

Bad taste and the person who sent it would fall in my estimation but not offensive

@Besswess88

He’s now deleted it (after I and others pulled him up on it) and posted another post about people having no sense of humour 🤣🤣

But it wasn't funny!

I’m so surprised at the responses on this thread.

@Besswess88 - was it posted on a community group in High Peak by any chance? Looks very much like the kind of thing which happened in our local town except the guy posted racist and sexist stereotypes. Loads of people left the group.

It’s neither offensive or funny. The melon “joke” has been done to death.
If some old bloke tried to touch your breasts it would rightly result in serious trouble these days, whereas maybe not so much a couple of decades ago. So the card looks mildly inappropriate at best.
In terms of offensive cards you can routinely buy cards with cunt on them.

its smutty dirty old man humour. The sort that likes Jim Davidson and Roy Chubby Brown and who ignores "the wife" and "the mother in law" and goes to betting shops and rarely washes.
Its grim and inappropriate, but best to just ignore as most people like this are thankfully dying out

Yes YABU. It's just a silly, harmless joke.

This is the thread I was thinking of.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3934056--to-wonder-if-these-pictures-are-offensive#prettyPhoto

Probably not the same artist, but very similar question.