When did this become cute?
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When did this become cute?
| Thu, 06-21-2007 - 4:38pm |
Has anyone else noticed the ever-increasing supply of clothing and accessories that say things on them like "Spoiled", "Brat," and "Princess"? Or sayings like, "Too hot to handle" or "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful...hate me because your boyfriend does." They're in juniors departments everywhere. I just think it's giving young girls the idea that there's nothing wrong with being a spoiled brat, having a sense of entitlement, and having unrealistic expectations.


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I'm not much of a t-shirt person, but I have a few I like.
One is I "heart" Pirates.
I have I "heart" Seth. (My son's name is Seth and he bought it for me, the little narcissist.)
And I have one that a blind friend gave me - it says "Talk to the Hand" in braille.
OK, I had one that I would NEVER wear today... but in HS & college, I thought it was cool...
"Institute for the Sexually Gifted".
I wore it because I WASN'T.
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I hate to see little girls dressed in adult styles. I don't even like little girls in bikinis. And no high heels! I understand the wanting to grow up thing, but that's what made it special, having to wait for it.
I do have a shirt that says Vixen on it, but that's my college mascot.
~Heather~
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You don't think it's appropriate for young girls to show their VPL to the world do you? LOL (VPL - visible panty line)
I think the part most shocking about this is the behaviour that seems to accustom these slogan t-shirts. They are more than just funny slogans, they are the mantra that young girls are seeming to live by, and let's be honest no one likes a spoilt brat!
These young girls know about thongs, implants, botox, waxing and all of these at far earlier an age than we did. I still have GF's who are just now discovering the wonders of tinted eyebrows, and there's probably 10 year old girls in OC having that done. LOL
The slogan t-shirt has existed for awhile. I had one back in the eighties that was the infamous, "Frankie Says Relax" one. What we did know at the time and at our age was the song the t-shirt came from explicitly talked about sex in the lyrics. That's part of the reason the song became so popular. The song "Relax" was famously banned by the BBC while at number six in the charts, and subsequently topped the UK singles chart for five consecutive weeks, going on to enjoy prolonged chart success throughout 1984 and ultimately becoming the seventh best-selling UK single of all time (as of May 2006). You see, sex has always sold!
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Okay, I'm 29 and I never knew the song "Relax" was about sex.
Specifically, it's about masturbation:
Oh oh
Wee-ell-Now!
Relax don't do it
When you want to go to it
Relax don't do it
When you want to come
Relax don't do it
When you want to come
When you want to come
Relax don't do it
When you want to to go to it
Relax don't do it
When you want to come
Relax don't do it
When you want to suck to it
Relax don't do it
When you want to come
Come-oh oh oh
But shoot it in the right direction
Make making it your intention-ooh yeah
Live those dreams
Scheme those schemes
Got to hit me
Hit me
Hit me with those laser beams
I'm coming
I'm coming-yeah
Relax don't do it
When you want to go to it
Relax don't do it
When you want to come
Relax don't do it
When you want to suck to it
Relax don't do it (love)
When you want to come
When you want to come
When you want to come
Come-huh
Get it up
The scene of love
Oh feel it
Relax
Higher higher
Hey-
Pray
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Oh I love it! An Alf reference!
I rememeber watching the Howard the Duck movie & asking what the "that" was that the girl pulls out of his wallet
Am my Mom sort of explained were it goes, but I could figure out how the flat round shape, fits over "that"
then years later ... "ooooh, it UN-ROLLS, I get it"
I never knew about "Relax" until Tipper Gore clued me in. See, had she kept her mouth shut, many of us would never have been the wiser!!
Samantha Fox, on the other hand... she was just "out there!" - literally! "Touch me...I wanna feel your body!" I mean really... anyone could figure that one out.
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