To think this is at best bizarre, at worst concerning?

[Movinghouseatlast]

A woman has posted the following question on a public Facebook page of holiday area I visit, so Im a member of the group. Lots of people ask for advice on restaurants etc on there.

'We’re coming down next week and would like to take our daughter shopping for some new lingerie/underwear - is there anywhere within say 30-45 mins we could take her?
Thanks'

Am I wrong to actually find this rather disturbing and strange? It's the use of the word lingerie in relation to the daughter that I find odd. Or maybe I'm wrong and it's quite a normal thing to do. But why post on a public forum?. As lots of people pointed out on her post she could just google!

Bizarre in so many ways.

Such a weird post and unnecessary detail. Why wouldn't they just post asking about where the clothes shops are. Who needs to know what its for fgs

Are there any independent shops that sell underwear? It could be a clumsy way of someone trying to promote a shop.

She could be in her 50s/60s, the daughter could be in her 30s, maybe her daughter lives no where near her and this is where they are meeting up? Could be a meet up before her wedding for example so this is the only time they could go shopping together? Yes she could Google, but lots of people don’t.

What kind of transphobic crap is this?

There is nothing suggesting this woman is trans.

On Facebook there are photos of people! She isn't that age. Looks about 40ish I'd say.

No independent underwear shops in the village. It's the back of beyond really!

How old is the daughter? I would be horrified if my mother posted on a public group that she was buying me lingerie!!
I can buy my own thanks very much!!

If I read that comment I would assume she meant independent shops locally and therefore easier to ask than Google.

Ooh yuck! I would find that really unsettling too what an odd thing to post about.

I would think they are either ridiculously nieve or a perv looking to get off. Either way, I'm sorry you saw that.

It’s been deleted!

Do you know she definitely has a daughter? And I guess what age?

It does seem weird to know you need undies/'lingerie' but rather than just getting them at home you would wait till you're in some obscure village on holiday?

The word 'lingerie' though technically correct, indicates it should be someone at least the age of consent. It implies sexy rather than functional. I can't imagine my mum or other women ever referring to it as anything other than bra and knickers/pants/underwear, even as an adult, in the context of purchase.

Do you think they're trying to start a convo about teen 'lingerie' then switch to another chat privately and things go downhill from there? I guess that could be the case.
Or they wanted to go there to perv on girl buying undies?

Did people not just reply with try Primark. Try marks etc.?

Yeah, it does seem really off.

Not transphobic, fetishphobic if you're really looking for an excuse to get your knickers in a twist because posters aren't mindlessly supporting pervy men as much as you'd like.

Fetish, getting off on the replies, and imagining people thinking of the described parental shopping trip.

Transphobic 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ stop the world I want to get off.

Maybe her first language isn't English and the use of the word lingerie is simply how she was taught, or maybe considered more polite than underoos/keks/thong?

Maybe her first language isn't English and the use of the word lingerie is simply how she was taught, or maybe considered more polite than underoos/keks/thong?

It's bad enough when holiday makers use local fb groups as their personal holiday planners, like the residents are all just staff but THIS is just bizarre!

She says underwear/lingerie. Again you can tell on facebook, there is a photo and profile of the person. She's in her 40,s, from the UK.

She talks of 'we're ' taking the daughter. That means mum and dad taking a daughter of whatever age she into an underwear shop and all choosing together That is odd. And yes, there is a dad, he's there in her profile.

Yes, I saw that! But left the other post about takeaways up!

It’s a weird question but I wouldn’t have instantly assumed a man with a fetish. I went with my mum to buy my “lingerie” (underwear) until I was about 14 and sometimes got pants or whatever as a birthday present. She wasn’t very technological so would have found it easier to ask things than Google them. But perhaps I take things at face value too much

I ran out of time to buy wedding lingerie before I left home (London) and had to find some on a Greek island so it can happen...

😂😂

Haven’t heard them called that for fifty years when I work in a engineering factory.

Yes I wondered this actually.

People's for whom English is their first language know that lingerie generally refers to underwear for adult women and usually has more sexual connotations than just saying underwear.

I don't think child & lingerie belong in the same sentence. If the 'child' is an adult they don't need to use the word 'child'

@Movinghouseatlast presume it's some hairy handed bell end.