Spanish chain Zara has had to take this product off the shelves:
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What does the smaller print say? It’s too light for me to see.
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Why? What is the problem with the clothes?
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The boy’s onesie says, “Cool and clever, that’s what mummy says” and the girl’s onesie says, “Pretty and perfect, that’s daddy says”. Apparently, these reinforce gender stereotypes about girls being valued for their looks and boys being valued for their intelligence?
By U.S. standards this is innocuous. I’ve seen much worse
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I assume that one is meant to be somehow funny/ironic (like other slogan-bearing baby clothes I’ve seen). Still…
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There’s a difference between whimsical and making your baby a billboard for all of the negative crap in your head.
Ugh.
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This is not the first time this happened in Spain: https://headbandsandheartbreak.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/what-is-wrong-with-this-picture/
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The whole business with gender stereotyping of kids’ stuff exists here as well. In fact the English writing on these suggests it could be the British branch of Zara (I think I’ve seen examples) but that’s without looking beyond this post.
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I don’t understand why Zara should be forced to withdraw them….
Sounds like people wanting to micro-manage other people’s lives, which I always react badly to.
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Is it important regarding Spain becoming less democratic?
First Hologram Protest in History Held Against Spain’s Gag Law
http://revolution-news.com/first-hologram-protest-in-history-held-against-spains-gag-law/
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I’m disgusted by all “funny message” baby clothes, no matter what the message actually is, so I’m not sure why this should be less ok than other such things
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Yesterday at the cemetery, the funeral home worker wrestled the bouquet I had chosen out of my hands, telling me that “it won’t do because it has some pink in it and it won’t work for a little boy’s grave.”
It’s like, forget the death of the little boy in question and concentrate on the real tragedy: if there is a pink flower in the bouquet people might think he’s gay or something.
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“Yesterday at the cemetery, the funeral home worker wrestled the bouquet I had chosen out of my hands, telling me that “it won’t do because it has some pink in it and it won’t work for a little boy’s grave.”
That is absolutely horrifying. I’m so sorry.
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It’s like, forget the death of the little boy in question and concentrate on the real tragedy: if there is a pink flower in the bouquet people might think he’s gay or something.
What a ludicrous asshole. I’m so very sorry.
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