Someone compared the messages on boys and girls’ T-shirts in Primark and it didn’t end well
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— Kate Long (@volewriter) August 13, 2018
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5 minutes – no more – assures girls their chief duties are to be lovable, beautiful, shimmery, magical, sparkly, smiley and dreamy.
— Kate Long (@volewriter) August 13, 2018
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Meanwhile boys get on with being epic, the boss, awesome, rule-breaking, fearless and legendary.
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I’d say we have a problem here.
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Although, honorary mention to just 2 of the hundreds of T shirts labelled as being for girls: pic.twitter.com/egcFHeXdFc
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So it can be done!
— Kate Long (@volewriter) August 13, 2018
Probably the one that says ‘wifi’ is our favourite.
Or you can do what we do, and shop for your daughter’s clothes in the boys section. Doesn’t always work though.
Here’s what people made of it online.
this is actually worse than I could possibly have imagined. genuinely shocked at quite how blatant the disparity is https://t.co/aYEPydfOWl
— Caroline Criado Perez (@CCriadoPerez) August 15, 2018
This thread is brilliant, but it’s depressing. Even more depressing is people thinking this stuff doesn’t matter https://t.co/2CA77HSlIW
— Polly Neate (@pollyn1) August 14, 2018
Went into Topshop with a friend, looking for clothes for her baby. She pointed out to me that even at age 1, girls clothes were fitted, and boys were not. Found it staggering. https://t.co/FZps5N0Jp8
— Craig Dawson (@dossa1uk) August 13, 2018
https://twitter.com/White_Wolf_2016/status/1029719188187824129
