Do you find this offensive?

[Besswess88]

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

What does two backs mean?

Glad it's not just me, was just wondering the exact same lol

It's an insulting reference to a woman's small breasts.

I think it's simple humour for simple people to be honest. Really low brow. I wouldn't be offended but don't think there's much place for it now we have surely evolved past cheap jokes

I wondered the same, does it mean I should just have a backbone over men commenting on my breasts.

“Wouldn’t get many of them to the dozen love”

“Pwoar show us your tits love”

“Nice melons”

“Would love you put my cock between them and give you a Pearl necklace”

I can continue .....

Try look at it differently and think about how some men would find it offensive the insinuation that men are obsessed with large boobs and would be unable to resist them and getting his hands on them. Then think about how the postcard is showing the woman, smugly lining up as though to give the man no opportunity to miss her boobs but the man is actually touching the melons and he has an expression that could be called a bit bemused and uncomfortable and he isn't looking at the boobs so it can be interpreted as he just wants the melons not a ladies boobs lined up as though she wants him to make the comparison. It isn't showing that men objectify women or that men can't resist a pair of boobs. It could even be interpreted that the woman is taking the Mick out of the man and is judging him and expecting him to be objectifying her by testing him with her actions. Mainly though the postcard is able to make people look at it and interpret it in several ways depending on how they take it and it's the observer deciding that the melons he wants to get his hands on are a woman's breasts that are amply on show, so to me it's ambiguous and not a dig at anybody in particular and could be the artists attempt to subtly challenge those stereotypes and make people think and if it was then this discussion here means they were successful. I do understand the op is going to read it the way she did because of experience x

What on earth at that baffling interpretation

Man from van:
Get your tits out!

Girl:
The jokes on him because I don't have my pet blue tits with me at the moment!

Or... Something.

'could be the artists attempt to subtly challenge those stereotypes and make people think and if it was then this discussion here means they were successful'

Have you never seen a carry on film? Benny hill?

That card looks 60s to 80s typical 'humour'.

You can still get them at the seaside to be fair but less common than they were.

The idea it's a post modernist ironic comment on sex stereotypes is... An interesting stretch to say the least

For me, it is offensive for the main reason that it objectifies women in a way that is supposedly funny. Funny to who? It objectifies women in a way that would not happen to men as a group. I apologize if anyone finds this crude, but can you imagine a similar carton with a sausage stand and so called well-endowed men displaying their large sausages?

Women are expected to shrug and laugh it off. It's just not funny.

Cartoon not carton!

Maybe it should come with a trigger warning.

Not in the slightest.

It’s sexism ofc. Jokes even as crude as this can perpetuate bias in the wrong people. I wouldn’t think much of the person posting it. Mind boggling that anyone would think it funny or acceptable these days.

Well like I said I have the opposite problem. Working in a pub, man said fu*k where are her tits. My reply, my chest is like your personality, small and insignificant.

I have a large boobs and I don't find it offensive.

It's just low brow humour for people of low brow people ;)

I grew melons this year. A creepy neighbour kept making suggestive comments about my melons, like he was channelling Benny Hill. It's pathetic and childish humour, but doesn't offend me.

No

You're lucky if you've not experienced misogyny. Most women I know can think of experiences throughout their lives.

Yep, I’m surprised by that poster, my experiences of misogyny started at 12.

Jesus that’s old fashioned like those postcards you used to get years ago. Wouldn’t find it offensive but not funny either

Just a tasteless,unfunny joke imo.

This is the problem now you can’t say/do anything without someone being offended. If you don’t like it, just move on...

Not at all .

I listen to radio4extra a lot. Some of the comedy shows from back in the day are cringeworthy awful for sexism, homophobia, ageism etc. They do put a warning out before programmes! It was a different time. Thank god it’s gone. That postcard is from there.

Smut is for some and not for others
Get a interest more positive perhaps?

Its what passed for 'humour' in some circles circa 1950.
It is not offensive to me.
I have a big shelf.
I would be offended if I was jeered at in the street, show us your tits or the like, because that is offensive behaviour aimed directly at me.
I think in your situation I probably would have told the guy the 1950s were calling and wanted its humour back....

@Teddybear27

You can’t say or do anything sexist, racist or anything else that batters protected characteristics.

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