Little girls wearing Justin Beiber TShirts with "Justin Beiber I want your Baby" emblazoned on them

[Bobbisox]

Before I get the usual assault on me, I think this is very distasteful and these T Shirts should be banned for kids as young as 7/8 etc, wearing them, I was shocked to hear this on Sky News before, are these Mothers being totally irresponsible ?

[andy-hughes]

Dee Sa - the problem is, advertising firms employ people who see the slogan, not the bigger effect.

They are more than liekly young men who do not have children, and think everyone views the world as they do.

The fact is,as mature adults know - everything revolves around 'time and place'. I will laugh at jokes and conversation in my office which i would not share with my grand-daughter who is fifteen, and i am equally sure the same applies to her and her own social group.

Advertising is seen by everyone, not just the target audience, and some consideration should be given to parents who are faced with awkward questions from their children, based on what te-shirts and poster have to say to the world at large.

BTW - the starred-out word in my original poast rhymes with 'blag'.

[ummmm]

Have you watched it Bobbi?

[Bobbisox]

yes I have watched , if I had not then I would not be in a position to debate it, would I?
it went over my head as some of these 'comedians' do now, perhaps you can say it as it is?

[ummmm]

He was saying to an 11 year olds father that it's inappropriate for her to have 'gorgeous' printed across her arse....

Because she was a minger...

But...it was the banter in between, that made it funny.

[Ellipsis]

Bobbi, it's fulfilling one of the things that comedy can do really well ... making you see how ridiculous and inappropriate something is by looking at it from the other side. Some people don't "get" this type of comedy and it can be difficult when taken to extremes, e.g. by Jimmy Carr or Frankie Boyle. But Ed Byrne takes it just far enough, IMO, especially with this "gorgeous" joke.

If an 11 year old girl has "Gorgeous" emblazoned across her backside, what's the point? What are adults supposed to make of it? What about 14 year old boys? What about other 11 year old girls? Who exactly is such a slogan aimed at?

Ed Byrne exposes it for how stupid it truly is by making a comment that would be appropriate if the slogan itself was appropriate - since the slogan wasn't, the comment wasn't ...

If Ed Byrne had been making a joke about the Justin Bieber t-shirts it might have gone something like this (with apologies to Ed Byrne) ...

I was out shopping with my young nephew the other day. He's a lovely lad but owing to his extreme shyness he's been having trouble with the ladies. Anyway, we saw an 8 year old girl wearing a t-Shirt that said "Justin Bieber I want your Baby" across it. And, although hopelessly optimistic, she seemed quite a tasty little minx, so I said to her "Ah, you're never going to get Justin, Too much competition, and he lives in another country! But here's my 16 year old nephew. He's willing if you are..."

[Bobbisox]

thanks for that ellipsis, I never can get their humour but I'm sure he appeals to a lot of people anyway. :-)

[ummmm]

My explanation was better....lol

[Bobbisox]

ummmm if you say so :-)

[Ellipsis]

LOL ummmm.

[ummmm]

Bobbi - I was aiming that at Ellipsis...who seemed to understand what I meant :-)

[Bobbisox]

Oh! I do beg your pardon :-(

[kerriesmum]

I dont think its right for little girls to be wearing these t..shirts at 7, i dont think i would even be happy for my teenage daughter to wear it either.
Not the same thing but it takes me back to my teenage days when i was a huge frankie goes to hollywood fan and i had the pleasuredom album bought as a present. You should of seen my dads face when i opened the album up he had not checked.... gay porn pics on the inside sleeve !. I dont think things are so different today

[lozzer50]

clothes like these for young girls are disgusting. no mother worthy of the name would make her girls wear such sh!£3! padded bras and heels for youngsters ???? they need to be children not mini slappers!! i wonder what society will look like in a few years when these girls are older!

[andy-hughes]

You must remember, some parents really don;t think about the bigger picture - they think something is 'hilarious' and go for it.

Advertisers and manufacturers are utterly shameless in chasing money - no matter how inappropriate their clothes may be - they will argue that people ' want it so they buy it ...'.

Hardly an argument is it? I could find some people who would buy a tee-shirt with a picture of a rat strung up with piano wire on it - doesn't make it OK to make and sell it though does it?

[boxtops]

Remember these? the very name suggests that those adults we mention thought they were really cute - I think they're vile http://www.heelarious.com/brooke.php

[askyourgran]

It's usually the chavvy kind of mothers that inflict all the 'kylie/boyance'stuff on their kids, Everything is going too far. There is little respect for anyone.

[looobylooo]

http://heelarious.com/blog/?cat=5

ohh those shoes boxy .... just look at the photos ... theyre just ... just ... well, theyre just awful!