Care label says ‘mother can do it’

[MotherCanDoIt]

Raging but being laughed off by others when I’ve shown it so I’d like opinions please! School uniform care labels says ‘or give it to your mother she knows how to do it’.

It's meant to be funny what is wrong with people don't take everything so seriously

@khakiandcoral true and you’re completely right I can’t and wouldn’t dictate to people what they should find funny. I’m at a loss as to how this has made it on to a child’s school uniform label though.

@AbsolutelyPatsy

i have seen that before, it is funny folks

You might find it funny but this thread evidences not everyone does. You telling me it is funny doesn't mean I'm going to go "oh yes, I'll just change my humour chip in my brain so I find it funny".

@Chikapu

Is it unacceptable to be upset at the constant normalisation of sexist stereotypes? What about if it was racism? What if the label said, give it to a black person to wash? Would it be ok with you to be raging at that or would that also be acceptable and no big deal?

Whats the point of whataboutism?

My point wasn't whatabboutary. It would have been if I'd said, never mind about sexist labels in school uniforms, think about all the racism that's happening in the world. I was merely using racism to test a previous posters tolerance levels. If you're going to accuse someone of whatabboutary, at least understand what it is first.

If my children read that they would fall about laughing, roll their eyes and say “as if!” before handing it to their dad to wash.

[quote Fifilorax]@AlexaShutUp well it does. You’re her mother, you did some of her washing. You knew how to do her washing when she didn’t. So the label is correct[/quote]
Wow, what a pathetic attempt at a “gotcha”

Don’t know many/any kids who look at washing labels on clothes. I don’t get the point in this why put that on, what was the point? It’s not funny it’s just a bit pathetic really

I thought this was a meme that does the rounds from time to time- I’ve seen it before. OP do you actually have a photo that can show the item of clothing that it’s on? Maybe with a recent newspaper because, forgive me, I’m sceptical…

i read that as a parent can look at the instructions and give it to their mother,

someone is always looking for bloody offence when IT IS NOT MEANT

@khakiandcoral

I am shocked and annoyed by people trying to ban everything and anything they don't agree with.

Heaven forbid sexism should be banned. Whatever next.

it doesnt actually say Mother can do it
it says Mother knows how to wash it

Meh, it'd take a strange sort of person not to be able to recognise that it's firmly tongue in cheek.

It reminds of a washing label years ago from George of Asda. It said something like 'Wash at 30 degrees, fold neatly once dry, throw on bedroom floor'.

I'm pretty sure otherwise neat children didn't take that as a serious instruction.

It’s true, my mother would know how to do it (my father definitely wouldn’t). That’s the way things were in their generation. It’s just a joke and I’d take it like that.

I think its meant to be funny....i think its funny in a kind of "in your dreams chump" way. I also think that its not intended for school uniform but maybe for young adult men's clothes. Lots of this stuff is made in factories where English is not spoken and i guess no one noticed.

It's more pathetic that, a label such as this, must have gone through multiple means of checking/approving it -including at the printers - and no one noticed an incorrectly spelt word!!!

@Gertie75

Doesn't bother me at all, it's very true too in our house that I can get a stain out better than dh. It's getting to a point now that you can't say anything without somebody being offended.

What are some examples of things you think people should be able to say without 'somebody getting offended'?

@Toddlerteaplease

Love it!

What do you 'love' about it?

I don't think its funny OP. It's sexist as fuck. It might be meant tongue in cheek but lots of everyday sexism is which makes shit like this acceptable and has people telling you that you can't take a joke if you don't laugh along with the sexist joke.

@TheChild

It's quite clearly a joke.

Said every sexist, misogynist twat since time began…

@khakiandcoral

I am terribly sorry for children who lost their parents, but are we supposed to remove any reference to parents, mums and dads, to protect them?

Shall we also remove all reference to siblings for all the children who don't have any or have lost theirs?

Shall we remove the word "parent" from all school communication too?

No, but there's no need to have it on a school uniform that children are mandated to have.

i am 55 and my own mother loves to wash any jumpers in my household, i do argue, but she does have a thing about her special wash

It would piss me right off. It might well be a joke, but all it does is make casual sexism more trival and accepted than it already is.

@FrankButchersDickieBow

I don't think its funny OP. It's sexist as fuck. It might be meant tongue in cheek but lots of everyday sexism is which makes shit like this acceptable and has people telling you that you can't take a joke if you don't laugh along with the sexist joke.

Yes. It's clearly a joke but it isn't funny. There are plenty of racist and homophobic jokes out there as well. I don't find them funny either. No doubt some people think I need to lighten up. I think they need to get their heads out of the fucking sand.

@Muchasgracias

don't forget manipulative, narcissistic, gaslighting, passive aggressive

I’m the dep Head at my school who orders uniform from the supplier. If I thought this was in the label of any of their uniform I would be changing suppliers immediately. In fact, I will be checking tomorrow that it isn’t. Casual sexism at it worst, and in the context of Ofsted’s review published last week into the sexual harassment that young women and girls have to face and accept as ‘normal’ on a daily basis, I too would be raging.
And we never use the words ‘parent/mother/father’. It’s always ‘family/families’. Far more inclusive.