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Why, in this day and age...

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Guildenstern · 31/03/2011 18:18

...are David and Goliath selling a pink mobile phone cover emblazoned with the words 'I'm too pretty to do Maths'?

Here

My kids are too young for shopping as yet, which has probably made me totally oblivious to the amount of rubbish out there for girls. Is this sort of thing typical? Because if it is I am going to spend a lot of their childhood feeling very angry!

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Guildenstern · 01/04/2011 14:01

This thread has now moved on to AIBU, where you will be saddened but not surprised to learn that some people think that yes, I am being unreasonable and overreacting.

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Lio · 01/04/2011 14:09

I have also emailed Littlewoods to complain.

StayFrosty · 01/04/2011 14:17

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MrsChemist · 01/04/2011 15:31

I saw the AIBU thread and it saddened me. I came here seeking some sense.

Whoever thought up that slogan needs a slap.

doggiesayswoof · 01/04/2011 16:00

Me too Mrs Chemist.
The other thread is good for bingo though, as AyeRobot pointed out.

doggiesayswoof · 01/04/2011 16:01

It's also really feckin UGLY.

It makes my aesthetic appreciation nodules hurt.

SardineQueen · 01/04/2011 19:16

Good LORD that's awful.

tougholdbird · 01/04/2011 19:44

What saddens me is that so many on that AIBU thread don't get why this makes some of us angry. I care that my DD may actually convince herself that she can't be pretty if she enjoys doing her sums. And yes, I can teach her to ignore it, but why should we have to suffer it!?! Wish I'd been braver to post on that AIBU thread, but as MrsChemist says, I have come here seeking sense.

SardineQueen · 01/04/2011 20:10

TBF vast majority of responses on AIBU thread say this product is a pile of shit.

MrsChemist · 01/04/2011 20:51

I hate the attitude that we should teach our children that these things are wrong. Why? Why should companies pump out this shite for us to fight against?

Anyone who says that we should ignore it and teach our children better are admitting that they think it's wrong, but that they just won't challenge it.

sethstarkaddersmackerel · 01/04/2011 20:53

It pisses me off because it's so selfish - my children will be ok because I will teach them to resist it, and sod everybody else's children.
Not to mention wrong, unless you live on a desert island with no tv.

AliceWorld · 01/04/2011 20:57

And what, teach them it's wrong but when you see something is wrong you do nothing about it? If you're teaching something is wrong, what better way than to complain about it and try and get it changed. Else you teach if something is wrong just ignore it.

Unrulysun · 01/04/2011 21:22

Well the underlying attitude is that it's ok for common people isn't it?

No-one give a fuck about poor girls. You should see (and maybe you have) the graph for how educationally White working class girls go off the rails at puberty - which is pretty much when they discover how little the world has to offer them :(

I don't like the way SGM was spoken to on that thread. It's really bugging me actually. Not that I think she'll give a shit but it was out of order.

tribpot · 01/04/2011 22:25

I've had a reply to let me know they have passed my question to another team.

If clothing suppliers wish to print ironic slogans on children's clothing, could I suggest they follow the Mitchell brothers on Stenders years ago, who bought a shedload of Free Nelson Mandela t-shirts after he actually was free, and so adapted them to say 'He's Free is Nelson Mandela'. Factually correct and still amusing.

ForkfulOfTabouleh · 01/04/2011 22:43

Really stunningly awful.

I really want to work out a way to pin these large household name companies wrt to sexism and it's promotion.

Not attempting to ban these products but far better if they are in small independent shops with much less visability.

We need to be asking boards of director's for their equality/sexism policy. If they wouldn't be happy to wander around their accounts dept. for example saying to all their female staff "gosh you're pretty - how are you managing with putting all these numbers together - that's Maths - oh hello dear you look like you're a good accountant "

ForkfulOfTabouleh · 01/04/2011 22:44

Then they should not be willing to stock and promote product's expressing the same sentiment.

If they can't work out whether something's sexist - the they can swap sex for race and they will soon see!

aliceliddell · 02/04/2011 00:38

Jesus Mary and all the saints. Dear god will there be no end to the tsunami of shite? Emailing must occur...I did consider sending in further ideas for ludicrously offensive racist/disablist/homophobic slogans but the lord has stayed my hand because the bastards would most likely print them....

Unrulysun · 02/04/2011 08:14

:) Alice

'too gay for woodwork'?

CheerfulYank · 02/04/2011 08:33

That is disgusting.

I have nothing else to say.

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