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Are you with the offended ones?

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bronze · 31/03/2011 12:20

nice baps

A petition and letter of complaint has been handed to owner John O'Toole, decrying his bakery's choice of title: Nice Baps.

Am I uptight and odd to be uncomfortable with this. My problem is I'm not very good expressing myself but...
it feels like theyre saying its ok to make womens breasts something you can comment on because it's ok it's only a joke

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pointydog · 01/04/2011 20:35

I'd think the owner was a nob. I probably wouldn't shop there.

GrendelsMum · 01/04/2011 21:02

Totally agree with the Octonauts comments. (It's Captain Barnacles, by the way) I couldn't believe that there was so little female participation when I first watched them. Kept thinking 'come on, where is the token female adventurer?'

On the other hand, DH and I believe that the Octonauts is a retelling of Clive Cussler's magesterial works of literature, the NUMA files. Hence the lack of women.

Unrulysun · 01/04/2011 21:30

Dd is only 10 months old so I have years and years of wondering why there's only ever a token female. Except for Zingzillas. But then there are the female bird backing singers who are most definitely not feminist icons.

nooka · 02/04/2011 05:08

I didn't think that the name was a big deal really, and I'm not sure I'd have made the connection with breasts but then I read the article and saw the owner's comment and realised he was an arse (if that is in fact what he said - having read a bit about people who have been featured in the Mail I am now even more cynical about it's shoddy journalism)

WMDinthekitchen · 02/04/2011 05:37

Awful name and very sad that it was Mrs O'Toole who thought of it. What does Ernest think of Nice Baps? I think we should be told...

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bronze · 03/04/2011 17:52

doggies- thank you. you managed to say so clearly what I actually meant

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glammanana · 03/04/2011 18:42

Give the guy a break he has opened a new business obviously not a drain
on society and trying to make an honest living,what do you do when you
want to order a roast beef nudger at the local deli or spotted dick and custard for dessert do we all start looking for alternative names,for goodness
sake live and let live and get a life.

StewieGriffinsMom · 03/04/2011 18:43

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BlueAmy · 03/04/2011 18:48

Oh dear. There's no such thing as a sense of humour with some people anymore is there?

This shop does not bother me in the slightest.

glammanana · 03/04/2011 18:55

Well said BlueAmy

LeninGrad · 03/04/2011 18:59

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HaggisNeepsnTatties · 03/04/2011 19:02

Blue Amy....well said! The worlds gone mad.... Grin

BlueAmy · 03/04/2011 19:14

Thank you. :) Glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks like that!

AyeRobot · 03/04/2011 19:24

BlueAmy, don't worry yourself, the mainstream view is that sexist nonsense is acceptable and even dersirable. You have an option not to read criticism of it by not viewing posts in this section. Those of us who don't like it don't have a choice not to see and hear it every day.

BlueAmy · 03/04/2011 19:41

I'm not worrying myself. Grin

I don't really care about what you believe to be the mainstream view either. It's all about perception. Some of us see things and are able to take it in the spirit it was intended. Others see red immediately and take it very seriously.

Neither is wrong, it's just we see things differently. I just don't like to worry myself about things that don't really matter. I am a bit more relaxed I suppose.

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bronze · 03/04/2011 19:47

Well I for one wouldn't want to work somewhere called nice baps. I can imagine the comments

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HaggisNeepsnTatties · 03/04/2011 19:50

Am interested. What do you think the comments would be??

AyeRobot · 03/04/2011 19:56

I agree that we see things differently. And I would imagine that there are many things about which I am much more relaxed than you. It's just that this isn't one of them.

I think the small things matter. I think that sexual sterotyping is damaging and am interested to see where that starts and where the small things fit into the bigger picture. This is one of those things and this is the feminism board where some like-minded people hang out. That's all.

omnishambles · 03/04/2011 19:59

There are loads of things this bloke called have called his bakery in a hairdressy play on words way without making it sexist - but he has got his publicity out of it hasnt he...Hmm

omnishambles · 03/04/2011 19:59

And Bronze is right - he's opening his staff upto loads of Phwoar type comments. Nice.

Kittytickle · 03/04/2011 20:02

What about "Knobs and Knockers" then? That mentions both breast and mate genitalia so it must be even stevens.

I wouldn't even waste my breath over "Nice baps". It is not interesting, original nor particularly offensive to me, unlike the Boots painkiller advert and some other posters being horrible to others by ending their messages with "innit" in order to implicate that someone is thick. Not nice.

Feminism great, but women are their own worst enemy sometimes.

LeninGrad · 03/04/2011 20:04

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AyeRobot · 03/04/2011 20:07

I don't think anyone is saying that it's the worst anti-feminst crime ever committed. Or even that it's even anything other than irritating. But "women are their own worst enemy sometimes" certainly fits somewhere in between.