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Actually offensive Secret Santa Gift?

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BewilderedPiskie · 29/12/2021 11:55

I have always avoided Secret Santa arrangements where possible due in no small part to threads on here. This year we had some new members to the small team I work in, in a professional environment, who suggested we arrange one amongst ourselves and to avoid looking curmudgeonly I agreed.
I have been gifted an adult colouring book and some felt tips. I must admit I found this disappointing in itself as I never got swept up in this craze and am a little disappointed that one of my colleagues has concluded I am an adult colourer but that's by the by.
My real issue is that it's the 'Go F*ck Yourself I'm Coloring' 50 swear words to color your anger away, adult coloring book. Which should be fine, I like a robust swear and I have a job that can very much cause stress but I finally looked at it properly today and a lot of the words to colour are not swear words per se but really, really unpleasant misogynistic, sexual slurs and terms that I associate with pornography not swearing. I have actually found myself quite offended that someone thought this was an appropriate gift for a fifty year old female colleague in a professional environment. My quandary is whether I should say something to the group or just hide it in the recycling and forget about it? I think I have attached an image so you can see the kind of thing I'm referencing.

Actually offensive Secret Santa Gift?
OP posts:
Saphyx · 31/12/2021 11:27

Honestly I think you should grow the fck up and pull that stick out of your a$s. It’s a joke present, get over yourself

EmbarrassingHadrosaurus · 31/12/2021 12:00

@Saphyx

Honestly I think you should grow the fck up and pull that stick out of your a$s. It’s a joke present, get over yourself
If you saw the recent dismissal of that defence at a widely reported Employment Tribunal then you might need to rethink that attitude.
karmakameleon · 31/12/2021 12:04

It’s interesting how the OP should “grow up” but the person who bought it is welcome to maintain their juvenile “sense of humour”.

Lavender24 · 31/12/2021 12:11

I wouldn't be bothered by the phrases but I'd be very disappointed at receiving a colouring book. Just put it in the recycling and don't take part next year.

Bagelsandbrie · 31/12/2021 12:32

I seriously couldn’t bring myself to be bothered about this. It would just go straight in the bin.

Booklover3 · 31/12/2021 12:58

Oh dear. I nearly bought one of those for my best mate who loves colouring. Thankfully I didn’t. I wouldn’t have looked through every page!

LittleRoundRobin · 31/12/2021 15:13

@karmakameleon

It’s interesting how the OP should “grow up” but the person who bought it is welcome to maintain their juvenile “sense of humour”.
This. ^ Typical mumsnet hypocrisy and disingenuousness ...
HikingforScenery · 31/12/2021 15:18

That’s really disgusting.

I agree with hiding it somewhere safe, for now, just in case.

Planet68 · 31/12/2021 16:22

Bin it and don’t get involved with Secret Santa next year. Saves any offence.

TheGrinchsDog · 01/01/2022 02:29

@Lavender24

I wouldn't be bothered by the phrases but I'd be very disappointed at receiving a colouring book. Just put it in the recycling and don't take part next year.
Ah cool, cool, cool, cool!

So casual horrific misogyny is totally fine...But an adult taking enjoyment out of as simple and harmless a pleasure as putting colour onto paper is not?

Ok well that's an interesting stance to take, I guess Hmm

TheGrinchsDog · 01/01/2022 02:33

A disappointing Secret Santa present would be like the year I got a large ornamental snow globe that oddly had dolphin leaping out of the water and a wave curling up from the bottom.

At least my Secret Santa had clearly tried to find something nice to give and not bought something just god awfully offensive in a dodgy effort at humour or by accident.

Rinkytinkpanther · 01/01/2022 02:55

A female member of staff in our NHS crisis team received a butt plug as a secret Santa gift Angry

MissyB1 · 01/01/2022 09:33

@Rinkytinkpanther

A female member of staff in our NHS crisis team received a butt plug as a secret Santa gift Angry
That would definitely have to be reported to HR.
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