Funny or crass?

[GonnaBeYoniThisChristmas]

This is being sold on a parent Facebook site. It makes me cringe - the language, the sentiment. I’m probably being clenched.

YABU - Cute, funny and relatable.
YANBU - don’t call a child “a dick”

Yabu. It’s tongue in cheek humour.

I laughed

It's a joke. Made me laugh.

If it's not your thing, that's fine. Everyone's sense of humour is different.

I've noticed that on Mumsnet people get really worked up about any negative description of a child, which baffles me a bit. Would I call a child a dick to their face? No, never in a billion years, because it would be hurtful and inappropriate. Would I describe them as a dick in their absence? Yes, because it affects them in no way whatsoever.

Thus, all day. Kids are not immune from being truthfully described.

It's a horrible way to refer to a child and I don't want to see profanity where a young child could read them. I think it's vulgar, abusive and offensive. Name calling your child is neither cool nor funny.

You wouldn't call them dick to their face but will parade a shopper bag with this message for all and sundry to read? wtf
This is not a private conversation with a friend who has the same morals and sense of humour as you, it's an item you wear and walk around in. Your child could easily see the bag at home if they read.

I would agree if it said 'sorry my child is a dick'. But everyone can be a dick sometimes.

I would and have called my kids a dick

Kids are not immune from being truthfully described.
Neither are parents!
I think kids should wear rucksacks that say, "Sorry, my mum/dad is being a total dickhead." I'd love to see the school gate response to that one.

This, 100%.
Kids are people.
Donald Trump was a kid once, he wasn't Mother Teresa up to age 18 and then magically became his now self one day after...

It's made me laugh, but I wouldn't actually buy/ use it. There's a difference in recognising the sentiment and broadcasting it, especially in the presence of the child.

YABU, if one person sees it and is amused they might become less angry at whatever the kid is up to at that particular time. Them being less angry might mean they don't shout abuse or threaten the parent. It's win-win.

The number of people thinking it's ok to display a message using such an offensive term about a child is worrying. It's not a hard word to read and many children will unfortunately know the meaning.

It is not a word it's ok for a child to use at primary school (or I would hope secondary) so it's not an appropriate word for parents to be effectively modelling or encouraging the use of.

@TheVanguardSix There are plenty of kids' t-shirts and so on that say things like that. There's a whole Facebook group devoted to toddlers' weird tantrums that's called 'My Parents Are Assholes'.

Kids can be dicks and I don't think there's anything wrong with saying that on a forum like this or in a private conversation with a friend but putting it on a bag is stupid. Would that parent be happy with their kid calling them a dick? Probably not.

It would be odd to use that bag when you don't have your child with you, wouldn't it? So as you wander around with your child and that bag, you are banking on all other parents responding with a supportive smile. But other adults and older children might be judging you to be the dick in question.
Is there a matching child size bag which says "Sorry, my mum/dad is a thoughtless wanker"?

I really hated logo things like this. It's just so crass. Even if it said "My princess is lovely" or whatever.

@HarryPopper I don't have kids. And if I did have kids, I personally I wouldn't buy the bag. I don't tend to buy sweary stuff because although I might find it funny, I'm aware that some people don't want to see it. But the OP's question was whether the bag is funny, and yes, to me, it is. Your mileage may, of course, vary. And that's fine.

I strongly doubt anyone is buying this bag for parents who have children old enough to read, so I don't think anyone's child is actually going to be reading the message and realising that their parent is describing them as behaving like a dick. To me, it seems pretty clear that it's very much an ironic nod to the awful toddler tantrum stage. One of my friends had a three-year-old who used to deliberately shit himself if he didn't get his own way, for example.

I think it's like other slogan stuff, funny to see on a Facebook post but I wouldn't buy it or want to see it in reality.
The only people I know who call their kids dicks to their faces are dicks themselves.

Not my sort of thing. I also don't really subscribe to the "being a dick" view of children's behaviour, especially not for any child young enough not to be able to read the bag.

50/50 split on the votes right now.

I think its funny, but I wouldn't actually buy one.

I had a wry grin at it.

if it was a parent with a toddler, I'd empathise, I would think less of them if the child was of an age to read it.

I wouldn't buy it or use it (if given it).

I wouldn't be comfortable calling my kid a penis, no