Offensive greetings card

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If you received this card, would you find it funny, or think it was rude?
Would you feel it was very poor taste?
Not meaning to offend anyone btw, more curious as to who would buy this kind of thing.

@ShirleyPhallus

Yeah it’s gross, I wouldn’t find that funny

That’s deeply offensive - so ignorant too - most babies are sore to push out and I’d rather not be laughed at afterwards

Leaving apart whether it's offensive or not, it's just not funny. It's a badly drawn, unattractive, poorly designed, poor quality card with a joke that completely misses the mark.

@Pythonista

Just a different sense of humour. Presumably you would send it to someone who would find it funny

Is it just a different sense of humour? How is it funny to call a newborn baby a freak? At best it's "humour" based in cruelty.

@icedcoffees

Not offensive, it's just stupid.

This. Not remotely funny.

I don’t love it. Wouldn’t exactly be offended but would think it was an odd card to send. I think unless it your best friend and this is your shared humour it’s probably best avoided.

It's also saying that a large baby is, ipso facto, a freak, which is obviously nonsense. The vast majority of recipients of that card probably have babies of 10 lb at the very most, which is simply not freakish. Even if the baby was way out of the norm, it would be incredibly rude/immature/stupid to go out of your way to find and send a card that points and laughs at him/her.

Referring to a newborn baby as a freak is what I find odd, it's not funny or clever it's just weird. Not sure many new mums would find it funny or endearing to have their baby called a freak. But maybe I'm just outta touch with younger generations 🤷🏻‍♀️

I wouldn’t like it. A keepsake card after having a baby is exactly that. That would go in the bin.

why would someone buy that? That's so strange.
Internally cringing that someone thought that was appropriate for anyone

@MonicaGellerBing

Yeah I'd find that offensive and I'm pretty laid back.

I think that's horrible!

I see a lot of these "funny" cards about, but most of them are just cruel.

I wouldn't be offended, I would just think "shit joke!" I have a pretty broad sense of humour... this just isn't funny!

I wouldn't be offended but I'd think the sender was puerile and the kind of person that has so little personality they think it's edgy and relevant to attempt to be alternative.

I'd put them in the same box as people who laugh at others for enjoying something mainstream and then avoid them because life's too short to deal with that level of inadequacy.

I love a dark humour card, but thats not funny.

I think the only way that would be ok, is if it was an inside joke and a made to order card.

I’d be offended at the poor aesthetics; elegant, beautiful cards only, please.

I'm sure only parents think that their newborns are cute-but freak?

Too far imo.

"No, I would not send it to anyone.
I found it while helping a neighbour to clear out the garage."
So it wasn't actually sent to anyone, that's a good thing at least.

I don’t really understand it. It doesn’t make sense.

Oh wow, I am one for slightly inappropriate cards to good friends, but that is tasteless and in no way amusing. WTF!

I wouldn't like to receive this

But I do know someone who refers to her children as her "crotch fruit" so I suppose there's a market

I don't think it's offensive. I wouldn't send it to someone and doubt anyone would send it to me because thats not my type of humour.

It's one of those cards where the two people involved need to be confident that they share a sense of humour. If misjudged that card could be quite upsetting and cruel.

Gross

I have a dark and sometime inappropriate sense of humour and I clicked on this thread ready to tell you to lighten up. But I don’t think that’s funny. I don’t think it’s offensive, it just has no wit, no cleverness, it’s not even just cheeky.
It’s just like the equivalent of pointing at someone, shouting “you’re ugly!” and then thinking you’ve told a joke.

It's not funny and I would have cried if someone had sent me that just after baby was born.
I was upset when I overheard the midwives describing my choice of name as "old-fashioned" and thought I was responsible for ruining baby's life on Day 1. It wasn't even old-fashioned! There have always been at least one other kid with the same name as DC in the same school year.
People need to watch what they say to new mums and Freak is not a good way to describe a new baby. Awful! I'm glad your neighbour didn't send it.

I mean I can see my best friend sending me that and vice versa. (Although I find the word freak there a little ableist). But she knows me EXTREMELY well and adores my kids and vice versa. And frankly post partum (we had our 2nd within 3 days of each other) our black humor kept us going through night feeds and mastitis and c section scars and her third degree tears. But as I said we are very close.
BUT I would have found a funnier card for her. This one isn’t that funny. But she’s the only person who wouldn’t be offended at getting this card from me and me from her.

There is nothing remotely funny about that card. I would be offended to receive it.