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02 June 2008

I saw this shirt on a real live toddler this weekend. →[More:]

I guess I must be getting old, because I found myself disapproving heartily.

post by: mudpuppie at: 14:58 | 34 comments

No, pups, you're just remaining a woman who is neither trashy nor tacky.

posted by crush-onastick 02 June | 15:01

Yea, that's not cute.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 02 June | 15:02

I heartily disapprove as well.

Yesterday I was behind Mercury Mountaineer with a license plate that read, U ENV ME. My husband and I got a chuckle out of that.

posted by LoriFLA 02 June | 15:02

Oh... dear. I assume the unseemly Oedipus reference is... unintentional? (Because if it's intentional, then it's even grosser.)

posted by scody 02 June | 15:02

I saw a preteen-size baby T last summer that said "Future MILF." Equal degree of ick.

posted by Miko 02 June | 15:04

Yeah, that's really bad taste. I remember my hear sinking in a similar fashion last year when I was waiting on a train platform and saw a girl who must have been about 8 years old with a Playboy logo'd t shirt, loads of makeup and really cheap jewellery on. Whatever happened to the innocence of childhood?

posted by TheDonF 02 June | 15:09

I'm glad y'all concur. I was feeling stodgy.

My assumption is that the dad bought the shirt for the kid as sort of a flirty joke he shared with the mom. But still. (And I think the kid was a girl, but I don't really remember.)

The whole MILF thing is also gross because it implies that even though a woman ZOMG is of a 'certain age' (which seems to be getting younger), some man will still find her attractive, so it's all okay. Gross.

posted by mudpuppie 02 June | 15:14

The whole MILF thing is also gross because it implies that even though a woman ZOMG is of a 'certain age' (which seems to be getting younger), some man will still find her attractive, so it's all okay.

Right. The undertone is that it's unusual that a woman who has given birth would still be sexy.... like "Hey fellas! Here's one who didn't let herself turn into a cow after pushing a baby out of her cooch! WOW!"

posted by scody 02 June | 15:27

Both of these shirts are disgusting.

There was an article about "cougar-hunters" in last month's Boston Magazine. The word is gigolo.

posted by brujita 02 June | 15:30

Um. Yeah.

The only way to avoid the Oedipal reference would be to go with what? "MYLF?"

Bleh.

posted by grabbingsand 02 June | 15:47

even though a woman ZOMG is of a 'certain age' (which seems to be getting younger), some man will still find her attractive, so it's all okay

Totally. And the "certain age" seems to be, like, 28. It's disturbing.

posted by Miko 02 June | 15:50

It's funny because that kid totally wants to bang his mom.

posted by Hellbient 02 June | 16:02

Did you see the MILF in question?

posted by danostuporstar 02 June | 16:06

I don't see what the big deal is. I'd happily join thr Mercer Island Liberation Front - we need to take the island back from the obnoxiously wealthy dorks who are currently overrunning (and over-building) it. It's good to see kids that age becoming involved in politics.

posted by bmarkey 02 June | 16:17

Am I too late to say that I'd be completely shocked to see a t-shirt like that in public, let alone on a toddler? I completely disapprove that's just how I am.

posted by DarkForest 02 June | 16:20

I'm with Hellbient. I wish I had seen these people. It's sort of like seeing a unicorn. Except a totally tragic unicorn, high on meth, telling the world to suck his horn.

posted by mullacc 02 June | 16:26

What's the consensus on a onesie that says "Dingo bait"?

posted by drezdn 02 June | 16:37

Did you see the MILF in question?

I did. Are you asking me if she was hot?

posted by mudpuppie 02 June | 16:38

deeply offensive on several levels. Sexual messages on an infant - wrong. The whole MILF crap - wrong. Sadly, these people have reproduced.

Why, just the other day I was trying to be less judgmental. Fail!

posted by theora55 02 June | 16:39

deeply offensive on several levels. Sexual messages on an infant - wrong. The whole MILF crap - wrong. Sadly, these people have reproduced.

Bingo. Tasteless and disgusting.

And I LOL'd @ bmarkey.

posted by chewatadistance 02 June | 16:50

What's the consensus on a onesie that says "Dingo bait"?

Well, I can only speak for myself, but... FUNNY!!!

posted by Atom Eyes 02 June | 17:02

I got my nephew a onesie that says "My ninja skills are in the 99th percentile." I think that's way funnier than that offensive, tacky MILF one.

posted by misskaz 02 June | 17:44

Dingo Bait is funny; MILF, not so much.

posted by deborah 02 June | 17:47

I like this one.

("Dingo bait" is funny, too.)

posted by BitterOldPunk 02 June | 17:50

Anarchy in the Pre-K!

posted by bmarkey 02 June | 18:08

I saw this shirt on a real live toddler this weekend.

Well, let's look at the bright side: at least you didn't see the shirt on a real dead toddler.

sorry.

posted by mullacc 02 June | 18:24

understatement>

The t-shirt -- it is not classy.

/understatement>

posted by jason's_planet 02 June | 18:53

Obviously the kid was not with his own mother.

posted by Ardiril 02 June | 19:23

I had gotten my daughter a onsie when she was an infant that had "Evil Genius for a better tomorrow."

That's where I drew the line.

posted by plinth 02 June | 19:48

Why, yes. Yes I am.

posted by danostuporstar 02 June | 20:20

I made a pregnant friend a Slayer shirt for her little unborn one. I don't know how I feel about it, but she seemed to think it was funny. Actually, I don't really know how I feel about the entire concept of t-shirts with words on them.
≡ Click to see image ≡
This is a model baby, btw.

posted by Hellbient 02 June | 23:38

I am reminded of this Achewood comic.

posted by heeeraldo 03 June | 14:34

My cousin once got me a t-shirt for my toddler son that said "Nasty, Brutish, and Short" from her college. For the life of me, I never knew if it was an insult or funny.

posted by redvixen 03 June | 17:11

redvixen, I think it's funny! I wouldn't take it as an insult.

posted by rmless2 03 June | 17:39

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