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Extremely offensive baby products on Amazon by brand Fonfella

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smithereen · 26/07/2013 21:32

I came across this product on Amazon whilst looking for baby clothes: www.amazon.co.uk/WANTED-BLOWJOB-BABYGROW-Months-SLEEVE/dp/B00D90UJ4U/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1374869417&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=baby+grow+all+daddy+wanted
I'm obviously concerned that this has slipped through the net at Amazon and sure its hard for them to monitor everything, but this is beyond the pale. More importantly though, I'm totally shocked that British company Fonfella could come up with this product in the first place. I've raised a complaint with Amazon, but some moral support would be great! Feel free to follow up with Fonfella too:
Fonfella Limited, Po Box 444, Sutton, SM1 9LJ - UK
Tel: + 44 (0) 207 9934387 (Lines open from 10am - 5pm Mon ? Fri)
Email: [email protected]

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smithereen · 29/07/2013 17:21

Hi Natalie, yes I agree with your first comment, this thread is not meant to include personal insults but to discuss an important subject. Of course the baby is unaware of the statement, its just a vehicle for the juvenile humour, but that's partly why is degrading. So you think the statement 'I'm with the mum I'd like to f*ck' doesn't sexualise a child? Whether its bought by an uncle who's a 'good laugh' or the parents themselves. You even say its for a laugh behind closed doors, which makes it sound seedy..

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Fonfella0 · 29/07/2013 17:24

Goggle babygrow or babygro - you can spell it either way.

I personally don't like it when I see babies dressed as ladybugs or bumblebees. Some parents may find it 'cute' but I personally don't like it. Notice how I say "personally" - it is my personal opinion. Who am I to say what other parents can or can't dress their children in?! Maybe disgusting was the wrong choice of word but it was in response to my babygrow being called disgusting.

Simple solution - If you don't like it, don't buy it! I am not forcing anyone to buy this product and make their child wear it but other parents find it funny.

StealthPolarBear · 29/07/2013 17:26

But if you have that attitude nothing will ever change. We tend to dislike the sexualisation of young children on Mumsnet and look to change it as we feel it is damaging.

poppingin1 · 29/07/2013 17:27

This is obviously very different to a child wearing a babygro with "I support the BNP" slapped across the front though.

As Fonfella has said, this is a humorous statement, not a pre determined choice of where a baby's political ideals lie.

I agree it is tasteless, but it is not sexualisation of a baby. Babies are conceived through the act of sexual intercourse, I think everyone knows that. This babygro makes a (tasteless) joke out of that, it does not make an innocent baby a sexualised object.

OP I think this is censorship because you are asking people to rally around and organise action against something you don't agree with.

PeazlyPops · 29/07/2013 17:28

Simple solution - If you don't like it, don't buy it! I am not forcing anyone to buy this product and make their child wear it but other parents find it funny.

So it would be ok to sell clothes with racist, sexist, or homophobic slogan, as long as someone finds it funny?

How about rape jokes, pedophile jokes? It would be ok, because, well, it's funny, right?

StealthPolarBear · 29/07/2013 17:29

If a baby wears a sodding babygroW with details of a sex act on the front then the baby is being sexualised. Trying not to be hysterical, adults will look at the baby and think of blow jobs. Do you not see that?

StealthPolarBear · 29/07/2013 17:30

I'm not suggesting normal, sane adults will have any dodgy intentions towards the baby AT ALL, just that the baby is being associated directly and plainly with a sex act.

SuzySheepSmellsNice · 29/07/2013 17:32

I'm surprised the representative of the company has entered into a mud hurling competition on Mumsnet, how mature. Just more bad publicity for your company dear, you won't gain any kudos by trying to look hard. And its Google... Try proofreading. Also, FYI, this thread will come up when anyone puts your brandname into a search engine...

FannyMcNally · 29/07/2013 17:32

Honestly Fonfella, you are quite happy to sell baby clothes with 'I'm with the MILF' on them? And you find this humorous? I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this!

poppingin1 · 29/07/2013 17:34

But that's like saying when you look at a baby you see sex because that's how the baby was conceived.

To me sexualisation is more to do with making the baby itself a sexual object. Like toddlers who participate in pageants Sad Gives me the heebies just typing that!

SuzySheepSmellsNice · 29/07/2013 17:35

Pageants... «shudders»

Dackyduddles · 29/07/2013 17:36

I really can't work up the emotion on this. It's silly.

StealthPolarBear · 29/07/2013 17:37

Suzy, if you google "babygrow" the first link is to bad taste babygros!
Maybe that's the difference in the spelling - babygrows are the vile ones.

StealthPolarBear · 29/07/2013 17:37

"poppingin1 Mon 29-Jul-13 17:34:37

But that's like saying when you look at a baby you see sex because that's how the baby was conceived."

no it';s really not

JakeBullet · 29/07/2013 17:40

Quite honestly I hoik up my judgy pants for people who think this is appropriate for a babygro. That includes parents who choose it and the manufacturers who sell it. I suppose it does no harm each to their own etc but it says a lot about them.

Fonfella0 · 29/07/2013 17:40

PeazlyPops - I personally have never found a joke about rape or pedophilia funny. Do you?

I cannot see how the product is sexulaising the child?? It is making a humourious statement about something that the parents did to conceive the baby - not a sexual act that involved the baby itself. Not sure if you are up an your 'birds and bees' but that's how babies get here.

StealthPolarBear · 29/07/2013 17:41

OK would you want a picture of a huge erect penis on the babygro?
I'm guessing no, it would be indecent.

Fonfella0 · 29/07/2013 17:41

I am a Mum myself and whilst I would not personally dress my son in this, there are many who do - each to their own.

StealthPolarBear · 29/07/2013 17:42

or even a small erect penis!

Pagwatch · 29/07/2013 17:42

Hahaha Grin
Natalie shouldn't be left in charge of a company keyboard...

Pagwatch · 29/07/2013 17:43

More humourious by the minute...

SirChenjin · 29/07/2013 17:44

Link isn't working now

Fonfella0 · 29/07/2013 17:46

StealthPolarBear - now you are just getting so far away from the subject. It is not a babygrow with a huge penis on it.

It is a funny JOKE for parents and adults that does not sexulaise the child. If it said "I (being the baby) will give you a blow job" then fair enough - but it doesn't.

It is a funny statement about what Mummy and Daddy did. It is not and have never intended to be anymore than that. If somebody reads "All Daddy wanted was a blow job" and thinks sexually about the child, then they are the one with the problem.

SuzySheepSmellsNice · 29/07/2013 17:46

I wouldn't be proud of selling a product that people find vile

poppingin1 · 29/07/2013 17:46

So what is the difference Stealth?

When a woman is pregnant I think everyone knows how it happened, and when the baby is born I don't think that knowledge goes away. We all know parents have sex to produce a baby, but I doubt most people look at the baby and imagine a sex scene.

It is a joke, albeit tasteless, but still a joke about the conception of the child which everyone would know involved some form of sexual activity.

This is not a babygro with breast enhancing padding.