We went on holiday and all you get are photos of stupid T-shirts
While out shopping, we came across something we hate.
Clothes for children can be offensive in all manner of different ways. They can be overtly sexual, for instance, which can be seen as encouraging the child to grow up too quickly (which is a debate in itself). When they're for babies, any slogans are there purely for adults to read and coo over. That's fine, if pointless. When they're for children, then they form - even indirectly - part of that child's education. And if they're supposed to be funny, well, they should be at least a little bit funny. Right? What they should never be is grammatically incorrect. They have to be drawn up by a designer, passed by a manager, shown to a printer, packaged by a... packager... (you get the picture) and someone along this line should stop it before it's too late. Someone should say, "Hang on a minute, this was obviously written by a gibbon. Let's fix it before we teach some poor kid that his English teacher is wrong."
Clothes for children can be offensive in all manner of different ways. They can be overtly sexual, for instance, which can be seen as encouraging the child to grow up too quickly (which is a debate in itself). When they're for babies, any slogans are there purely for adults to read and coo over. That's fine, if pointless. When they're for children, then they form - even indirectly - part of that child's education. And if they're supposed to be funny, well, they should be at least a little bit funny. Right? What they should never be is grammatically incorrect. They have to be drawn up by a designer, passed by a manager, shown to a printer, packaged by a... packager... (you get the picture) and someone along this line should stop it before it's too late. Someone should say, "Hang on a minute, this was obviously written by a gibbon. Let's fix it before we teach some poor kid that his English teacher is wrong."