To think Tesco/F&F should be ashamed?

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To sell this T shirt in age 5-6?

Interested in other people's thoughts.

I think people making a connection with Playboy are massively overthinking this. ‘Honey Bunny’ and ‘Honeybun’ are terms of endearment and rabbits do not scream sex to most people.

Why are you wasting our time with a T-shirt with bunny ears when you've got some serious shit going on with your Tupperware lids?!

Mismatched lids are a sign you've got a demonic infestation in your kitchen.

I've lost my garlic press and honestly, I fear there's a vampiric attack imminent.

I loved the Von Dutch Bitch late 90’s early 2000’s era!

I remember wearing a T shirt with the actual playboy bunny on it to non uniform day at school. My mother must not have realised what the logo was associated with. 😬

My mum has always called babies and little kids ‘honey bunny’ and she was born in the 1940s. She’d never use it for an adult.

I love how you are not being defensive and listening to the feedback

hunny bunny is a (old fashioned) nickname for an adult partner. Not a child. Coupled with the bunny association of ears a la playboy it’s disingenuous to say this is anything but a reference to that

Since we're apparently doing double entendre bingo, can I get a point for spotting that "rabbit" is a type of vibrator?

It’s sexualised

'Honey bunny" is a term of endearment, similar to "honey," "sweetheart," or "darling," often used to express affection or fondness'

What boundaries do you believe we don't have.
I am a child of the 90's and it was a common expression between mothers and their children.

Actually no, it's just a term of endearment.

My daughter is 4 and had this top for Easter. There is literally nothing wrong with it, it was part of their Easter collection hence the bunny ears. It looks nothing like the playboy bunny.

Maybe in your sphere, not in mine. Or in others here. Which is clearly where the issues lie. No-one is ‘wrong.’

From the OED - references are to a partner.

"Maybe in your sphere, not in mine. Or in others here. Which is clearly where the issues lie. No-one is ‘wrong.’"

Which would mean Tesco are perfectly reasonable in selling this top and should not be "ashamed" of it..... People can choose to buy it or not based on their own "spheres"

Gave up buying girls’ clothes when they had “Born to Sparkle” on a pink t-shirt and “Born to lead” on a blue one.

The casual sexism in children’s clothes is appalling.

Sure. If you want some people thinking you’ve put your kid in some kind of adult sexualised top. Go for it!

"some people thinking you’ve put your kid in some kind of adult sexualised top

Says a lot about your sphere I guess.....

All of those words are interchangeable for different contexts though, surely? I call my small goddaughter honeybun, sweetheart and darling, and nobody yet has ever looked at me swivel-headed expecting to see a paedophile standing next to her. They might be words you can use towards a partner but it’s very historic that they are exclusively used that way.

I don’t agree with this. My dd is 16 and at Halloween some of the girls dressed in corsets - witches, a couple of playboy bunnies etc.

🙄🙄

That is a bit of a stretch, frankly. I doubt many young parents would even think of playboy bunnies.

It looks springlike to me. Not my sort of thing but then I am an oldie, don't have small children. Surely no different to dressing up as a fairy or a princess - or a marvel superhero, maybe less.

Those offended by bunnies should complain about all these KIDS books....

@AliBaliBee1234 in response to you saying I'm being defensive and not listening to feedback. (Jeez, I am terrible at quoting posters in a comment and then can't amend🤦)

Ok, I am (somewhat ironically) going to defend myself here, because that's absolutely not what's happening.

"it's definitely not as clear cut as I thought" is what I said. I'm listening.

I've posted to see if people think if my reaction was unreasonable. I'm not trying to convince anyone else of my stance.

I mention the play boy pencil case era as an example of why I might have had the reaction I did to the t shirt, not as a reason why I'm right.

The poll is 46:54 in favour of AIBU at the moment and it has been really interesting to hear the other viewpoint - I think the fact that honey bunny means different things to different people is a big factor in how you respond to it.

Not every source says the same though.

Also from the OED, this suggests it's frequently used for a child.

Like the OP says, I think there's probably regional variations on this. A quick Google search shows a lot of non-dictionary sites referring to "honey bunny" as a nickname for their child eg/Babycentre, Stepchild, and also Cambridge Press.

Mind you, all of that aside, I still don't like the T-shirt and wouldn't have put it on DD when she was little.

Really not that deep. If you don’t like it, don’t buy it.