Kathy said around evening on June 8, 2007
At the risk of making myself sound over-the-hill, there is a trend among today’s youth that is really starting to disturb me. I’ve seen it quite a bit and last night saw it again and prompted me to wonder if I am the only one who thinks its appalling. A young girl, no older than maybe 14-15 years old walked by us with a couple of friends. No big deal. She was wearing a tight t-shirt that read, ”I was voted Most Flexible by your boyfriend.”. It might as well have said ”I’m a whore.” I totally understand the whole novelty t-shirt thing. I have a few myself. But none of them imply I’d pork your boyfriend.
Now, if I were this girls mother, there is no way in HELL I would let her leave the house wearing a shirt like that. I’m sure teens get away with murder anyway regardless of their parents wishes. However, the outward sluttiness of that shirt just made me cringe. I’ve seen tons of other ones all basically eluding to the fact that the person wearing the shirt has slept with or performed sexual acts with someone else’s boyfriend. Is it supposed to be cute? I just don’t understand why walking around announcing you’re a slut who sleeps with people who cheat on their girlfriends is funny. I’m not uptight and I don’t lose sleep over this, but the girls wearing these are younger and younger. It makes me wonder about their parents and how they could let a 13 year old wear a shirt like that.
I am on the cusp of my 31st birthday. I guess I just need to sign up for the AARP early. Pass the FiberChoice chewables.
from Mouseville™
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Daily I am reminded how thankful I am that I had boys.
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Boys are just as bad. My teenage son wore a shirt (that I didn’t buy and didn’t even know he owned) which read: Laugh so I can watch ‘em bounce. To church. A Catholic church. He had a jacket on the whole time and I didn’t notice it until we got home and he removed his jacket. I tossed the shirt.
Oh, and I am the Grand Poobah of the AARP - Early Bird Chapter
from Michigan
I also hate the ones with JUICY or something written across the butt. All that does is invite people to look and how can you let your 14 year old girl walk out of the house knowing that everyone she encounters will be staring at her booty? Its just wrong.
from West Palm Beach, FL
Cocktail: Champagne Bellini
@Robyn: Seriously.
@Brandi: Dude! See that’s what I mean. I KNOW kids get away with stuff even when you keep a close eye. I just see so MANY of these girls walking around like that it just baffles.
When my son comes home wearing one of these it will quickly become dust rags. I am just bracing myself for that day now so it won’t be such a big surprise. Haha!
@Tina: The butt thing is nuts too. I spent my entire life trying to get people to NOT look at my butt. Why would anyone want to force people to read stuff off it?
from your moms.
OHMIGOD. I agree. I tell my son all the time, “There’s a fine line between funny and asshole, but THERE IS A LINE.” I guess in this case it’s funny/whore. I also am not a fan of the 13-and-under clothes with words on the butt. Is it just me or does it seem wrong to actually encourage strangers to look at a small girls ass?
Pass me the Metamucil…
from Mi
I really agree with you .
I see girls like that every where these days.
My daughter has no chance of ever fitting when she is that age.
My hope is of course that she wont want to.
from Michigan
I know! And some of the girls that wear that crap are WAY too young to be wanting people to check out their asses. It is really, really wrong. I don’t get it, I really don’t. I guess I"m just not cool enough.
from your moms.
I agree, the boys are just as bad. An ill-advised trip to Seaside Heights, NJ yielded an infestation of high school guys wearing t-shirts as brilliant as “I’m not Mr. Right, but I’ll fuck you until he gets here” and “Was it a one-night stand if we were horizontal?”
Yeah, if I was 17, I’d soooooooo want a piece of that.
from Florida
Hey! Those tee’s are on clearance. Hard to pass up that kind of sale.
ha ha
from your moms.
Things like this make me lose sleep. I have two girls, ages almost-6 and almost-4. If their looks keep up, they will both be very good looking when they reach high school age. And, knowing first-hand what horn dogs high school boys are, well… like I said, I lose sleep thinking about it.
I take a hard-line approach to things like this. There are no Bratz in my house. It is a Bratz-free zone. Similarly, when they get older, they can have whichever clothes they want that their mother thinks is okay, but if I see something I will not tolerate (like the aforementioned tshirt or pants), they are gone, without discussion. I will not rationalize it to them, and am not interested in hearing any arguments to the contrary. If they give some trouble, I will burn said clothing. That’s the way I’m going to handle it. There’s a line you cannot cross. If the clothing doesn’ cross the line (I may not like it at all, but it doesn’t cross the line) they can have it. If it crosses the line, it’s gone. Period.
*frets*
from your moms.
I agree, Kathy. I think those shirts are disgusting and not funny. My mother would never have let me out of the house with a shirt like that on.
Although I do own a shirt that says “Shit, Fuck!” But that’s totally different.
from your moms.
You should see the ones my sister has. She would wear a decent shirt over them, then take it off when she left the house. Sometimes she would get caught, but she definately lived up to her shirts statements.
Like you, I would never let my daughter wear something like that in public. It’s just wrong.
from Houston
I was just talking about this sort of stuff with my mom this weekend. Now, granted, I have inappropriate shirts, but I’m in my 30s!! And okay, so my mom gave me my favourite shirt, but it says “I like your boyfriend” and not “I fucked the living shit out of your boyfriend and you probably have the herps now, so um--sorry about that!”
Prom dresses are the issue we were actually talking about. My mother and I would fight tooth and nail about prom dresses. I wanted the ones that made me look older and more sophisticated. She said no. I now look around at these 16 year old girls in Texas wearing $5000 gowns that are beaded and chock full of plunging necklines, inappropriate cut outs, and essentially large signs saying, “I am SOOOO getting pregnant tonight!”
from Chicago
*wanders over from Tenth-Muse*
“Not only am I such a slut that I fucked your boyfriend (and the whole VD party favors that go with it), but I am such a shitty friend that I willingly fucked his brains out and am now rubbing your nose in it.”
I find the “Juicy Ass” to be on the same level as the low-rise jeans with the thong hanging out. Again, why do I want to encourage people to look at my ass? I’ve always wanted to go up behind those girls, grab the top of the thong and give it a good YANK! Right after I go up to the boys with their jeans hanging around their knees and about 11 inches of boxers visible over the top, and yank their pants UP.
When I do that though, I’ll need someone to post bail for me, ‘k?
from Virginia Beach, VA
We had our kids at one of those moon walk places a couple weeks ago called The Jumping Monkey (holy crap I wish I had thought this business idea up...easy money) - anywho, there was a girl there that was probably about 15 and she was wearing a shirt that said on the front “Who Needs Big Tits” and then “When You Have An Ass Like This” on the back with arrows pointing to all the appropriate places.
WTH????? She was 15, with her parents and with a small child, in a kids play place? My 5 year old asked me what t.i.t.s. spelled. I was so close to telling the manager of the place that he needed to ask them to leave.
And her ass was not even all that...so it was false advertising too!!!