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This is why people are creeped out by Snag Tights

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WowStarsWow · 13/05/2022 09:30

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This is why people are creeped out by Snag Tights
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LilacWines · 13/05/2022 11:47

WiddlinDiddlin See that is so patronising. I have an interest in kids toys because I have kids in my life. And yes, I'm aware that adults design toys, thank you so much for clarifying that. How helpful of you!

But unlike this image, I understand that it's not about me - I don't need to play with the toys unless I'm in some game with a child, I don't need to dress as a child because I'm an adult. Add a child to this image and it looks very different.

It's the same problem I have with Drag Story Time - I have been to many Story Times and it's always, always a woman librarian, dressed in normal clothes, reading to a child. Never a bloke. But with Drag Story Time it's all suddenly about the reader, their costume, how amazing they are.

Apart from the creepiness of this image, it's so narcissistic for a grown man to insert himself into a child's world. I get that there are places on the internet where this is normal, but if they appear in clothing that I might have otherwise bought I feel free to scroll on, as you suggest, and not buy them. Companies need to understand that not everyone finds this innocent or charming.

viques · 13/05/2022 11:48

MarieIVanArkleStinks · 13/05/2022 11:31

I'm the 'B'. That means I've never truly been part of the community, as it's never truly spoken for me. Bi people have always been the outliers.

I am pissed off, in particular, at the implication that because I'm not particularly fussy about which 'gender' I go to bed with (bi-phobia at its finest) then the hard line between two separate categories of bisexual and pansexual doesn't exist, and I should therefore not be gatekeeping my vagina to any entitled male who sees fit to use it. 'Cotton ceiling', is what they call it, although the 'movement' is interestingly enough trying to backtrack from this term now it's been seen in the sunlight for the appalling thing it is. And if that's bad, the awful rhetoric surrounding lesbians is far worse.

Eroding the boundaries of consent, especially around a culture where convictions for rape and sexual assault are unacceptably low, can never lead anywhere positive. It's highly evident who are the main beneficiaries of that particular push. It's not women of any sexual orientation.

It's not about the 'T' not having the right to coexist peacefully and without discrimination against them. It's about their active, encroaching, ever-present assault on my rights. And just look at the damage this has done to Stonewall, a once positive, valuable and much-needed charity. I've heard their founding CEO on this topic in a particular trial that's taking place recently.

Bloody heartbreaking, and it makes me so angry.

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Simon Fanshawe wrote a very good article yesterday in the Daily Mail ( yes I know but it was a good article) . He is in despair at what Stonewall trans activists have done to the organisation he helped set up.

Pickabearanybear · 13/05/2022 11:50

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WiddlinDiddlin · 13/05/2022 11:40

Without adults with an interest in kids toys... kids would have no toys. I can guarantee you, children do not design, create, make, kids toys. Adults do.

So a bit less of the 'adults who are interested in kids toys = PAEDO' please. Just because on some ridiculous and revolting website somewhere someones put up some drawings of Majesty in a gimp suit, does not mean all adult MLP fans are paedos. I am sure somewhere a paedo likes a cup of tea, can I now say that cups of tea are linked to paedophilia? Fucking ridiculous.

Snags advertising is 'out there', to stop you scrolling and make you look. I don't find a lot of it attractive but it certainly has made me look and remember their name and I have some of their clothing, some of which is good, some of which is less good.

Don't like it - keep scrolling!

but you have also missed the point by saying to "keep scrolling" - this is a drip, drip approach to making this kind of stuff normal in the public arena. I personally could not give a shit about some grown man dressed in tights and a nappy wanking over his My Little Ponies but not in public thanks.

problembottom · 13/05/2022 11:51

Perfectly happy to be called a Boden wearer and a Karen if it means condemning this disturbing advert and avoiding Snags from now on. Grim.

TalkingCat · 13/05/2022 11:52

TheOrigRights · 13/05/2022 11:43

It's a mature man dressed as a small child. Don't you find that a bit odd?

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Oh, ok. I couldn't really tell from the picture, but now I've saved/enlarged it, I can make it out. Even the adams apple. You are right. That is creepy and wrong.

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 13/05/2022 11:52

problembottom · 13/05/2022 11:51

Perfectly happy to be called a Boden wearer and a Karen if it means condemning this disturbing advert and avoiding Snags from now on. Grim.

Me too - but I object to Karen ,Boden is fine !

TalkingCat · 13/05/2022 11:53

ReadyToMoveIt · 13/05/2022 11:43

Have you read the thread?

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No. Blush You're right I really should have RTFT before posting. Sorry.

Clymene · 13/05/2022 11:56

This is the article @viques mentioned

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10811203/Trans-activists-wrecked-good-work-Stonewall.html

faggyhagger · 13/05/2022 11:56

dworky · 13/05/2022 10:21

Just more male fetish entitlement. I hope women see it for what it is & spend their money elsewhere.

Yep.

CaliforniaDrumming · 13/05/2022 11:56

Am sure this has been asked before but exactly who is their target demographic? Is it men who like to dress as women and/or very obese women with tattoos and bad dye jobs? Is everybody else a Karen? I just don't see anyone who looks like me on their site ( I am not white BTW) and it puts me off because I can't tell what their products may look like on me.

Americano75 · 13/05/2022 11:57

LiTEraLly never going to buy their stuff.

WellThatsMeScrewed · 13/05/2022 11:57

boogiewithasuitcase · 13/05/2022 09:44

And look at how their hand is placed.

He’s just stroking his unicorn

TalkingCat · 13/05/2022 11:59

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It's far more than that though. Now that I look at it closely, it's basically pedophilic. A grown dressed as a little girl with toys. It is very disturbing, can't you see that?

TalkingCat · 13/05/2022 12:00

#grown man

That last post was to @HailAdrian

viques · 13/05/2022 12:01

@Clymene thanks for doing the link.

TalkingCat · 13/05/2022 12:04

It's not even about transgender, it's about fetishising being a girl child @HailAdrian . It would be different if he were dressed in ordinary women's clothes, but he's made up to be a little girl. Don't you see the difference? Can you seriously not see anything wrong at all with that image? If not, you give me shivers down my spine if you seriously can not see what is wrong with this picture. It's not transphobic at all, my attitude would be the same if it was a grown man dressed up as a little boy or a grown woman dressed as a little girl. You know, we can (or should be able to) call sick fetishising innocent children without being called 'transphobic'. Maybe paedophobic would be more an appropriate term.

ClaudiaWankleman · 13/05/2022 12:05

They're not really dressed as a child, are they?

What children have blue hair, wear a crown, tie scarves around their neck and wear waistcoats/ pinafores like that?

They look more like a children's TV character.

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WowStarsWow · 13/05/2022 12:09

Yes @ClaudiaWankleman thats what people are saying. He is dressed as a fetishised idea of what little girls wear.

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ReadyToMoveIt · 13/05/2022 12:11

ClaudiaWankleman · 13/05/2022 12:05

They're not really dressed as a child, are they?

What children have blue hair, wear a crown, tie scarves around their neck and wear waistcoats/ pinafores like that?

They look more like a children's TV character.

Well exactly. If he was dressed as an actual child (leggings and t-shirt, for example), it wouldn’t have the desired effect, would it? He’s dressed as a fetishised idea of a young girl.

SolasAnla · 13/05/2022 12:13

ClaudiaWankleman · 13/05/2022 12:05

They're not really dressed as a child, are they?

What children have blue hair, wear a crown, tie scarves around their neck and wear waistcoats/ pinafores like that?

They look more like a children's TV character.

With the hand on the toy, giving it a little pet???

Nothing to see, nothing to worry about, right?

ClaudiaWankleman · 13/05/2022 12:13

Well I am not saying that @WowStarsWow

I don't look at that person and think 'little girl'. They look more like an anime character or someone who dresses up for Comicon/ Cosplay. It's weird fashion but I just don't see it the way you do.

lameasahorse · 13/05/2022 12:14

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BarrowInFurnessRailwayStation · 13/05/2022 12:14

It's a parody of a little girl, just as drag acts parody women. If people can't see that then go to specsavers.

HailAdrian · 13/05/2022 12:15

Mumsnet is known for being transphobic, I'm not sure why some of you are pretending you're not, you are very transparent. It's not a coincidence that the picture is of a man and not a woman.