River Island 'Anti-Nag Gag'

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Can't quite believe they are selling this...

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Turtle - it's from The Wolf of Wall Street.

Oh right tess, that great feminist film

I haven't read the Metro article but I read a list of the "Women's sexual complaints" list in a link shared by a friend on Facebook and read it from a feminist perspective of the shit women put up with from sexual partners.

who was the target market for this product

I mean is it a funny bday present for a female partner?
is it a stag gift?

I am trying to figure under what normal circumstances anyone would buy this item?

typo:
I mean is it a funny bday present for a female partner? = I mean is it a 'funny' bday present for a female partner?

It'd be a very unfunny present, perhaps for a stag do. Sigh.

YouAreMyFavourite - I suspect it was aimed at being a "humorous" gift for male football fans (as the gag piece is a football), as the World Cup is coming up, so of course football will be overtaking TVs up and down the country in the summer months.

And of course, that automatically means women will be nagging about all the football, because woman can't like football and want to watch it themselves!!

River Island also sell a nork shaped beach ball advertised by a woman asking if the "Boys wanna play with my boobie?" And an "Irish accent mouth spray". Yes AnyFucker I think it's time to source the jeans elsewhere.

Drat! The jeans were good

Curious as to what gender designed it/gave it green light.

I am also a bit boggled that anyone would spend £4 on this.

Apart from the fact that's it's preposterously sexist, I can't imagine they'd actually make much money out of it.

It's a visual joke, right, it would make sense as a cartoon or something, not something you would actually buy.

Just really weird.

i think we may have collective denial about what is considered funny or acceptable at the moment. i have a horrible feeling many people (/men?) would think it was funny.

i googled the product to see who makes it but found these gems:

www.funslurp.com/hear-no-evil-instant-nag-relief

and once more
www.diabolicalgifts.com/product/anti-nag-gag

I was just looking on the River Island site and saw they also sell this novelty "Grow your own girlfriend gift". No 1 reason why you have to have her? "She never has a headache!"

Grow your own girlfriend

I'm actually quite shocked by it. Such horrible misogyny presented as novelty. It's horrible.

Can someone expalin the Irish accent mouth spray?

here

no idea

I just had a little browse at the women's "novelty" section to see if it had any equivalent anything about punching men in the face for a laugh or the like. Strangely, not. It was all sweets. So they think that women like eating sugar, and men like being sexist and racist (xenophobic? irishist?).

Great.

I think I have seen "grow your own boyfriend" kits, but not sure if they were quite so dismissive of men

some typically mindless and mild sexism but nothing about coerced sex

The irish mouth spray is just random love

But he never looks at your credit card bill anyfucker, unlike your real partner who has to keep tabs on your spending.

And he doesn't argue.

Women want someone who agrees with them. Men want someone to agree to sex with them.

I do wonder who buys these things too. I mean the assumprtion of sex/credit card bills etc. Says adults in relationships. But do grownups buy this crap?

somebody must buy it

David Brent types at xmas works dos I guess. Who knew there were so many of them?!

Indeed

I've spent ages reading the comments section of the Metro article and actually found it disgusting and struggled to sleep last night.

Men under their own names (not the idiots who post here anonymously for a reaction) happily laughing at the list saying the author "must just not like sex". "doesn't know how to communicate" "needs to get laid by a man".

Surely men need to communicate. Can I penetrate you in the ass? Surely the onus is on them. And if women are just laughing off sexual assault as an annoyance why the fuck even bother? And if the woman doesn't like it...DON'T DO IT!

If these shits were prosecuted and got raped in prison would they still be laughing? I actually feel sick :(

I have a girl and two boys. I so wanted a daughter, not because I had ideas about having a little pink nightmare, but because little girls are awesome. And now I sometimes feel horrible for bringing in to her the world for what feels like a life time of abuse.

I honestly would feel like I won the lottery if she came out as a lesbian one day because it makes me sick thinking of her (she is only 3 now) growing up in a world so saturated by porn that this is what she has took forward to with boys. Where anal sex is expected and doing it without permission or preparation is something women feel they just have to put up with like random objects being inserted as in the article.

I have 2 little boys and I feel this overwhelming responsibility to make sure they don't grow up to be entitled arseholes.

ReallyFuckingFedUp Please don't despair! The antidote lies in those of us bringing up boys.
Its going to be a tough job with all the external pressures which will be exerted upon them but modelling healthy,happy and equal relationships along with education and reinforcement will hopefully result in raising the bar. These little people that we guide for a while are the framework for a better future.