Worried about my 18 year old son buying joke shirts from Afflecks Palace

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Hi everyone, I’m after some advice because I’m really not sure if I’m overreacting or not. My son is 18 and has started going into Manchester at weekends with his university mates. They’ve been spending time in Afflecks Palace, which I know is full of alternative stalls, but he came back yesterday with a couple of t-shirts from the shop on the top floor that does the t-shirt printing.
One of them says “Don’t bully me, I’ll cum” and the other was along similar lines with crude sexual humour. He thought they were hilarious and just a bit of edgy fun, but I’m honestly concerned. At 18 he’s an adult, yet these kinds of slogans seem to normalise really objectifying and inappropriate attitudes, especially towards women and sex. I’ve tried speaking to him about it calmly, explaining why it bothers me, but he just laughed it off and said it’s only a joke.
Has anyone else come across these sorts of shirts in Afflecks or had their own son or daughter bring something similar home? Am I making too much of it, or is this worth having a firmer conversation about? Any thoughts on how to approach it without it escalating would be really helpful. Thanks.

but why is it ageist?

Can we be friends?!!

Because it usually means a woman of a certain age.

This is a bit of a drama overdose.

What a silly comment. Those T shirts sound awful OP. I bet your son is a nice guy.
I'm afraid you might have to sit it out. If you can, feign totaly disinterest.

have a laugh for once in your life x

I used to wear F.C.U.K. clothing.

I will once you realise men degrade you and you smile at them x

I dare say OP does laugh at funny things.

it’s usually women that say it actually 🤣

Another woman with sense! Thank you. They are awful. So offensive. And there's a DVD shop in there with porn on the walls. With movies where women get killed. Its disgusting.

*batshittery if you are being proper

oh.. i don't let men degrade me.. i do that myself.. especially wearing my "Retired Broodmare" cap alongside a good MILF shirt.

“am i overreacting?” “yes, you are” “NO, I’M NOT!!!”

anything else you want to be offended by?

People looking at you?

Exposed Table Legs?

I use the phrase “DILF” … can’t decide if I’m ageist, sexist, misandrist or a deviant

Every vaguely alternative teen has at least one poor taste t-shirt. I did and if you come down hard about this you're just going to come off like Mary Whitehouse and he will lean harder into it and especially if you turn into some campaign against small businesses selling silly tshirts

If it helps I think by 26 most people are cringing about this phase. Just make sure you get photos 🤷🏻‍♀️

Of course!
We can wear matching t-shirts!

Don't be daft. Women getting killed everyday, and they're showing films with it. Get your head out of the gutter and be a proper feminist.

Ah I can smell Afflecks just from this thread

my mum liked the lovely dresses I used to buy from there 30 years ago but hated me wearing them with my black army jacket and docs! Ah they were the days

i prefer my brand of feminism to be the kind where i wear whatever the fuck i like and not what someone else thinks i should or shouldn't be wearing.

thanks.

https://obsceneatee.com/products/dont-bully-me-tee-dtg-printed-celebrity-t-shirt-100-ringspun-cotton

It’s on sale!

It would be interesting to know if he thinks it would be as delightfully edgy and amusing if he saw this on the large stomach of a 60 year old man our with his small granddaughter

Ha ha. I don't do proper...I come from the land of AP !