To think the Mumsnet coronation logo is quite mean?

[AdaBrady]

Disclaimer: I’m not British and have no skin in the monarchy game, but I do think the ears are a bit much.

YANBU
I'm not a royalist at all but I have this.
Front cover of the Spectator as well.

hate this

What were they thinking?!

Yes it’s awful and puerile. Very dated.

Good point about the school bullies. Wonder how many kids will be called King Charles next week?

Mean and tacky.

Good point about the school bullies. Wonder how many kids will be called King Charles next week?

Because all school bullies read Mumsnet.

Not nice #bekind
( posted with irony)

I’ve just laughed out loud, it’s so bad it’s funny - but it shouldn’t be there! It’s not nice.

Thought I was seeing things. That's nasty.

I'm pretty sure that everyone else knows that there's a massive range of possible logos between mocking physical appearance and servile

Your post makes you soind chippy and thick, maybe that wasn't your intention

Same here, though I didn't have surgery. I spent my entire childhood and adolescence wishing for surgery but my parents (mother and stepfather, not my actual father who died when I was 7, a year and a half after their divorce) didn't see the point, and they thought it was "cute and funny". It wasn't, especially as they, along with everyone else, ripped the piss out of me. School, home, relatives, everyone. Parentally approved bullying.

@MNHQ, this is neither funny nor in any way acceptable. Whether KC minds or not, it's pretty offensive to thousands of other people, especially children, out there who are being bullied because of their ears, it's very hurtful, and it's just plain nasty. I had thought that this was a grown up site, a safe haven, but obviously. I genuinely don't know if I ever wish to come back, not just to this thread, but to the entire site.

This thread or the logo? Prompting mockery at appearance is more DM style

I’m a primary teacher and I have a child in my class who has huge self esteem issues over the size and shape of her ears, despite the fact that other children don’t mention them. I hope she doesn’t see any such jokes over the coronation. I also hope it doesn’t inspire others to make fun of her.

Puerile and pathetic. What was the thinking behind the decision?
My objection is nothing to do with reverence to the institution.
The standpoint of republican belief doesn't rest on Charles's physical appearance ffs.
It's disappointing that any individual would be mocked by focusing on a physical attribute. As my Mum used to say its not big and it's not clever.
Took me back to saturday night 'comedy' of the 1970s

It's just unnecessary, isn't it? A primary school child could design a better, more appropriate logo.

It’s childish and reminiscent of playground nastiness.

I hope they apologise Making fun of people's apperance is mean and nasty behaviour that we wouldn't tolerate from children, let alone a website supposedly run by adults.

It’s really juvenile. Not the sort of amateurish branding that advertisers would want to associate with, however temporary.

I think MN have massively misjudged this.
There have been lots of threads and comments about the cost and excess of the coronation and the fact that Charles isn't particularly popular.
I think that MN thought they were going to ally themselves with those sorts of feelings and show how in touch they are with MNetters' feelings.
But criticising someone and disagreeing about how things should be done doesn't - for most people - include childish personal insults. It would have been better - and more in keeping with the apathy shown towards the coronation - imo to have not made any change to the logo.
Some of the more extreme people who post on the RF board will like it, but I thought Justine thought the extremists there were "deranged".
Maybe she didn't mean both sets of extremists.

I hadn't noticed it until I saw this thread, and when I did, it made me chuckle.

Imo, it's in the spirit of caricature and no worse than the images of him created by the likes of Martin Rowson, Peter Brookes, Steve Bell or Spitting Image.

Caricature isn't body shaming, and people with a high public profile are used to being caricatured.

I agree. It looks cheap and tacky and I'm amazed that anyone at @MNHQ thinks it's OK to mock someone's appearance.

I'm anti royalist but this is unnecessary.

I didn't know MN had a coronation logo before you told me but I completely agree that it is out of line.

It's not a caricature to make a social or political point. That's different.
It's a Coronation logo, and, as such, it is puerile.

It looks like they spent 3 minutes designing and executing this logo.

Pathetic, cheap and immature.