Good Target, bad Target

Aug 10th 2006
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This freakin’ cracks me up:

This? Not so much. It’s not because of the text. Honestly, I think I might have found it wryly amusing to wear while I was pregnant…IF IT WEREN’T SO GRAMMATICALLY WRONG.

“Whose my daddy?” Whose? UGH. C’mon people. If you’re going to sell something via a big-box mass merchandiser, please, please at least check to ensure you’re not looking like an idiot on a grand scale. Repeat after me: Whose = possessive. Who’s = Who is.

Then there’s this one, which I just find plain annoying, even though it is grammatically correct.

(/rant)

hat tip: Pandagon


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  1. Alison says:

    Ok, seriously, I don’t even GET the last one? And if it means what I think it means, slightly misogynistic, no?

  2. Laura says:

    My two daughters killed themselves over that first one.

    Daughter, 20: I want that one for when I get pregnant! Buy it and save it for me!!

    Daughter, 13: If she’s wearing a maternity shirt and she’s still a virgin, then everyone will think she’s saying she’s just fat.

    20: Unless it was an immaculate conception!!

    13: Nah. Been done.

    I love my kids. :-)
    …………………………

    That last one is a redo of the t-shirts that point to the person on your right. This time it’s BABY saying s/he’s with STUPID (mom). I didn’t see it as misogynist so much as training the kid – while still in the WOMB – that you expect him/her to be disrespectful and rude to mom (and dad).

    So maybe I’m just being too Earnest here, but it bugs me.

  3. Allison says:

    Slightly misogynistic, you think? How about very?

    Laura, I aspire to have kids as cool as yours. I just read the post about your daughter’s perspective on middle school and about died. If ONLY I’d been as smart then as she is now. Middle school was my own personal purgatory.

  4. Larc says:

    Okay, yeah, who checked the “WHOSE your daddy?” That’s just, as you pointed out, WRONG! And who would buy the “I’m with stupid?” Really, I shudder to think who would actually purchase that.





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