Do you find this offensive?

[Besswess88]

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

[Gobbycop]

Write to Jim’ll Fix It while you are there

Brilliant.

The irony in this post is superb 😂

[ChazP]

It’s outdated and totally inappropriate in 2020.
I have also encountered a significant number of smutty comments about my sizeable breasts in the past and it does make me perhaps more sensitive to other who haven’t.
I entirely agree with you about this, OP.

[KiposWonderbeasts]

It’s stupid, puerile and tacky; I’d think that about the twerp who posted it too.

Not offended, I’d just think “what an asshole.”

[Changi]

You can find it offensive if you want to.

I don't.

[TooTrueToBeGood]

It's offensive IMHO but context plays a part as well. In a group where risque humour is deemed acceptable then it might be OK (putting aside the fact it's about as funny as a knock-knock joke). Nobody would expect to get away with sharing it in the workplace though and anything inappropriate in the workplace is generally inappropriate in any other general and diverse context.

We cannot change the fact that breasts are sexualised and women are as likely to sexualise breasts as men are. The problem starts though with men who fail to understand that it should be a woman's absolute right to decide when, where and with who her breasts are sexual and when they're not - the default being the latter. This postcard promotes the toxic view that leering and unwanted sexual attention by men are just something women have to accept as normal. That's what I find offensive about it.

[nicky7654]

I loved these post cards when I was younger! Nothing wrong with having a laugh occasionally. Bored of people being offended lol

[PurpleFlower1983]

Silly, outdated, seaside humour.

[Thecobwebsarewinning]

It’s tedious old fashioned smut but I don’t find it offensive. And I say that as a very petite woman with 30FF boobs.

[Ponoka7]

@NoPainNoTartine, nice bit of gaslighting there.

You are treated differently if you have bigger boobs and are also blonde. I was sexually harassed and treated as though I was thick as shit from the age of 12. To the point that my careers advisor suggested that I used my expected high biology qualification (as well as expected As in other subjects) to go into being a beautician. I was told to not bother expecting to do anything with history or politics.

[feelingverylazytoday]

I don't find it offensive. It's a smutty joke (though not very funny). Smutty jokes are allowed, about men's bits as well.
You are at liberty to not join in the group if you find it offensive though.

[I8toys]

Offensive no. It's not personal. Crude yes. With everything going on in the world is fine something else to get irate about.

[gingerwhinger0]

I don’t find it offensive, or particularly funny either. They almost seem quite innocent in comparison to the heavily sexualised imagery we’re used to seeing, but we’re meant to be cool about that because thats about female empowerment and the other is objectifying.

[ReadySteadyBed]

@Besswess88

Because it’s so smutty and it absolutely objectifies women.

Maybe it hits a raw nerve with me particularly because I have large boobs and have had to put up with shit like this (comments) my entire adult (and teenage) life.

I have a massive boobs and always have and don’t find this offensive at all.

‘Offensive’ is a crazy strong word to use for postcard humour?!

[NameChange2PostThis]

@Besswess88

I’m offended by how unfunny it is. YANBU it’s a sexist trope that’s so old it stinks like an unburied corpse.

[NoPainNoTartine]

[quote Ponoka7]@NoPainNoTartine, nice bit of gaslighting there.

You are treated differently if you have bigger boobs and are also blonde. I was sexually harassed and treated as though I was thick as shit from the age of 12. To the point that my careers advisor suggested that I used my expected high biology qualification (as well as expected As in other subjects) to go into being a beautician. I was told to not bother expecting to do anything with history or politics.[/quote]
You know nothing about the way I look, so stop assuming anything about me and accusing me of "gaslighting"

the sarcasm completely went over your head, but never mind, it makes it even more ironic.

But if you need a little bit of help: all I know about the OP are what she WROTE, I haven't got a clue what she looks like. My comment was entirely based on her posts on this thread. Assuming the OP is female, which is never a given on an anonymous forum.

[BloggersBlog]

I get your Jim'll fix it comment. People often think nostalgically of their childhoods in the 70s or whatever, but reality is, it was a time of vulnerable people putting up and shutting up. I really dont think the "summer of 76" made up for what a lot of people suffered in that era.

Stupid "humour" like this wasnt funny surely even back then. At best it would be a raised eyebrow and snigger from an equally daft twit.

[pudcat]

This is 60s and 70s seaside humour. Everyone used to flock to the stands outside the shops then and laugh. Men women and children. Men were also portrayed in humorous ways on them. I suppose these will be the next things to be cancelled from our history. Thet were considered funny and not to be taken seriously. A bit like What the Butler saw machines.

[Helmetbymidnight]

Everyone used to flock to the stands outside the shops then and laugh

no they didnt. we thought they were stupid back then.

[Quaagars]

Meh
Silly seaside postcard humour
Can't get too worked up

[emilyfrost]

@Besswess88

It’s so sexist.

It’s not ok at all, we need to move on from this shit.

It’s not at all sexist. You’re being ridiculous and embarrassing yourself, and you’re making women as a whole look ridiculous too.

If you find something like this offensive you need to change the lens you use to view the world because it’s crooked. It’s making you think there are problems where there aren’t any.

You feeling insecure about your body is nobody else’s lookout but your own.

[StanfordPines]

Outdated and tacky. And seen by many as tacky then.

But no. I don’t find it offensive.

[Besswess88]

I am glad someone saw my Jim’ll Fix It comment for what it truly was.

I worked in bars during the late 80s/90s where is was deemed perfectly acceptable for guys to grope us girls in our late teens.

[Kissthepastrychef]

I'd rather look at saucy seaside postcards than pornhub videos of women getting choked by "massive cocks" or teen schoolgirls getting spit roasted by their horny teachers.

I'm not offended, it makes me wistful for a time when the only pornography was soft, when women didn't have to shave off every inch of body hair and girls weren't expected to enjoy being beaten and choked during sex to look as if they weren't dull and boring

[LondonlovesLola]

I am glad someone saw my Jim’ll Fix It comment for what it truly was.

Offensive?

[iklboogeymum]

I am glad someone saw my Jim’ll Fix It comment for what it truly was.

I saw it for what it truly was. It's still offensive.