I regularly get told I'm over-thinking things. Hell, my mother just told me so at dinner when I was holding forth about superinjunctions and confidentiality agreements. I think they are nothing more than Patriarchal tools to permit rich, white men to sexually abuse women whilst giving those women no recourse in law. Apparently, this was over-thinking the issue.
Anyway, we were at the St Johns Craft Fair. I may have mentally spent about £18 000 pounds. Just so much beautiful furniture, clothing, jewellery, and art; most of it made by women. There are so few spaces wherein women's art has a chance to shine that being somewhere full of women's art feels so incredibly special. The jewellery company Eclectic Shock was my favourite new find of the day.
It was all extremely lovely right up until the point I found a t-shirt for a toddler with the ever-so-lovely maxim "Lock Up Your Daughters". You know, because girls need to locked up and protected from would-be rapist toddlers. Erm, or instead of perpetuating rape culture in your baby sons, how about teaching them to respect themselves and women. How about teaching your sons that they are capable of acting like actual humans with empathy and kindness? How about teaching your sons that girls are humans too; that they are entitled to be treated with kindness and respect.
The "Lock Up Your Daughters" t-shirt for toddlers is just the normalisation of rape culture. They aren't funny or cute. They are just the same old misogynistic shite. Just this time using toddlers as advertising. I've never understood why people would dress their sons up like would-be rapists. I mean, what the hell else is that t-shirt supposed to mean? Seriously, someone tell it's actually a silly reference to a TV show that I've never heard of or the name of some celebrities pet elephant or something.
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