WTF was he wearing?!

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I passed a man earlier (maybe 45 to 50), who was wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the words "I'm not a gynecologist [sic], but I'll take a look anyway".

AIBU to think this is arrantly classless, misogynistic in reducing women to mere vulvas and that you'd have you'd have to be a prick to own such a monstrosity, never mind wear it out in public?!

Is it made in Sweden?

I'm just glad the idiots like him are wearing clear labels so we know to avoid them.

Unfortunately, I do believe it. There are some very odd people in this world who will use grossly inappropriate words for children (and without ill-intent).

Yeah this, crass and he looks like an idiot. But I don’t see misogyny or reducing women to vulvas.

How very 1970s seaside town. But it's quite convenient when these chaps tell us who they are without even opening their gobs.

I remember being 10 and being really uncomfortable seeing a grown man wearing a shirt that said 'make me horny' in an Iceland supermarket. I honestly think there should be rules against this stuff tbh. Also saw a young lad driving a car that said 'MILFHUNTER' on the top. Makes me want to get a pink car with 'DILFHUNTER' on the front.

Bloody Hell !!

My SIL gifted my FIL a mug with a photo of a woman on it wearing underwear. Stockings etc, not sturdy gusset type underwear. When it was filled with hot water the underwear disappeared leaving her totally starkers. My MIL used it faithfully every day to make his tea. WTAF? When my son was born I told my DH to make it stop or it would meet with an accident and to be fair they did but I'm sure they thought I was quite the victorian prude. Astounding that women still pander along with misogynistic shite.

I would have instinctively sprayed Deep Heat in his eyes lmfao.

Hahahahaha!

😮

"it's not going to suck itself" worn proudly by an old flame. Apparently HIS ex had bought it for him. It didn't work out between us.

Oh yuck, what a massive ick. What a bell end he was must be

This in spades.

I wouldn't call finding it gross 'policing'!
I honestly just got on with my day, as was in a hurry to get our train back to the SW.
Maybe it was a sense of humour failure...

But 'only' disapproving is what most people on here have done. Apart from anything else, who would want to risk approaching somebody choosing to wear an aggressive t-shirt like that?

And what's actually wrong with challenging people who deliberately massively overstep accepted social boundaries? I'm not just talking about a 'cheeky' slogan; but some of them that people have recalled on here, honestly.

Call it policing if you will, but what would you say If somebody walked down the street saying these slogans out loud as they walked? Would you ignore that and 'not police their speech''? Because that's effectively what a t-shirt slogan is doing.

And you say about 'policing the clothing of grown adults', but they wear these out in public knowing full well that many children will see them. Deliberately exposing children to very adult, sexual and/or other highly inappropriate content is a clear form of abuse.

I think there are a lot of people out there who have such main character syndrome (or are just seriously not very bright), who genuinely seem not to realise that EVERYBODY whom they walk past will clearly see what they're wearing - and not just their friends or people whom they're hoping to entertain or attract.

And then, if people complain at having to see it - whether it's a nasty t-shirt slogan, their underwear on display or anything else similar - it suddenly becomes their fault for 'looking'.

Recently, I saw a man wearing a black t-shirt with white writing.

On the front, it said ''I'm an unemployed taxidermist''

And the back said ''I haven't stuffed anything for weeks!''

This is far worse 🤢 I can't fathom the thinking behind allowing a young child to wear a t-shirt like this 🤯 The poor child has no understanding of the slogan, but the parents and any adult/older teen will. Gross.

Deliberately exposing children to very adult, sexual and/or other highly inappropriate content is a clear form of abuse.

Wow. If a child understands that slogan then the t-shirt is the least of their problems. How ridiculous to call it abusive. If your child saw it, would you be phoning the police to report child abuse?

Why assume he’s aggressive?

He isn’t saying it out loud and forcing others to listen. You know you don’t have to look, don’t you?

I don’t find it funny but I find the pearl clutching bizarre.

Agreed. When I was in NICU with my twins there was a couple in with their premie baby daughter and the dad repeatedly called her "sexy girl".

I remember thinking to myself, Christ alive...
But it does happen!

Actually that’s the opposite of main character syndrome.

Main character syndrome is seeing something worn by a stranger and then appointing yourself the morals police 🤣

Save your horror for some of the ones on here that the children are wearing

I think she jointly won with Rhod Gilbert. It was deemed by Greg to be as creepy as a man who’d actually hidden in his house and filmed him when he was asleep. So I think that tells us what reasonable people feel about such things.

A young child may well not understand it - although some who are confident readers and curiously learning all the time would ask their parents what certain words mean.

What about a teenager, though? Do you think a 14yo girl would fail to understand what the intent behind most of these was? Do you think she would find it amusing... or possibly threatening and hugely unwelcome? Should she have to see this out in public, just because an adult man wants to expose her (and everybody else) to it?

Like with the Co-op thread, it gets so tiresome when people come out with the "You don't have to look" excuse, as though people routinely walk around in public with their eyes closed or looking down at the floor and don't automatically see other people who are walking around in the open. Why should the people who are not deliberately causing the problem be expected to modify and restrict their freedoms to enable and condone the person who is?