September 1, 2009

Political pants.

I thought this...



... was pretty funny... as I searched around the TwistedTwee site after reading about the outrage caused by — can it be? — nipple tassel T-shirts for toddlers...



I searched all over TwistedTwee for the nipple tassel shirts so I could figure out if they really were for kids or were some kind of satire, but I just couldn't find it. Looking, I saw a lot of genuinely amusing things, like this and this...



... and this. Some of that is in bad-ish taste, perhaps intended more as a joke gift than really to be worn by a child.

Should I be more upset?

4 comments:

tim maguire said...

The tassel-T seems like a great gag gift for some roguish relative to give, but I would support legislation to confiscate the children of parents who actually let their children out in public wearing it.

Joan said...

I'm trying to see if there are actual tassels or just pictures of tassels. I'm thinking it's just pictures.

I think as a concept it's shocking and therefore someone will buy it, but only as a joke, you know, "astute social commentary on the overt sexualization of younger and younger females in our culture."

Some of them were OK (the Dirty Dancing quote was very good) but most are too hip and/or ironic for my taste. Babies oughtn't be used as billboards.

tim maguire said...

I can no longer hear the "baby in the corner" phrase without thinking of the Family Guy realistic ending to Dirty Dancing

http://msuma.wrzuta.pl/film/2RpibF9SG3W/dirty_dancing_realistic_original_ending_-_family_guy_6x06

traditionalguy said...

Was that tassel-T from the Jean Benet Ramsey designer line for child sex stars?