Cute or tacky?

jenna8984

This is 100% hypothetical since I'm not even pregnant. But when I am (hopefully) one day, I'd like to not find out the sex. I know how we feel about rhyming stuff being stupid, but how you do feel about something like this on a baby shower invitation?

Little lady or little man?

Either way- a Patriots/ Bruins fan!

I'd love if people got sports related stuff/clothes instead of the 2 generic options at baby stores. Or is that too tacky to write? Not even trying to get ahead of myself, I just think of really weird fucking shit when I can't sleep at 4am haha

 

theartistformerlyknownas

You should have nothing to do with your own shower. You know this.

ashley8918

Girl, you are putting the cart wayyyyyyyyy before the horse. But I dont like it, personally. Too cutesy for my tastes.

climbingsingle

Honestly dude, I think it's incredibly weird that you're planning baby shower invites when you're not pregnant. 

jenna8984

climbingwife said:

Honestly dude, I think it's incredibly weird that you're planning baby shower invites when you're not pregnant. 

Eh whatever, just something totally random that popped in my head. People think of baby names they like when they aren't even pregnant. Not like I would ever run to the host and say you must do this.

ashley8918

jenna8984 said:

Honestly dude, I think it's incredibly weird that you're planning baby shower invites when you're not pregnant. 

Eh whatever, just something totally random that popped in my head. People think of baby names they like when they aren't even pregnant. Not like I would ever run to the host and say you must do this.

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jenna8984

ashley8918 said:

jenna8984 said:

Honestly dude, I think it's incredibly weird that you're planning baby shower invites when you're not pregnant. 

Eh whatever, just something totally random that popped in my head. People think of baby names they like when they aren't even pregnant. Not like I would ever run to the host and say you must do this.

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OK well I've been around long enough to not DD. So take out the hypothetical "shower for myself" and just go with "what would you think if you got an invitation with this on it?"

ashley8918

jenna8984 said:

ashley8918 said:

jenna8984 said:

Honestly dude, I think it's incredibly weird that you're planning baby shower invites when you're not pregnant. 

Eh whatever, just something totally random that popped in my head. People think of baby names they like when they aren't even pregnant. Not like I would ever run to the host and say you must do this.

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OK well I've been around long enough to not DD. So take out the hypothetical "shower for myself" and just go with "what would you think if you got an invitation with this on it?"

I would roll my eyes. But I really dislike cutesiness of any sort.

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I mean, I don't think there's anything wrong with someone throwing a sports/team themed baby shower...

But I liked getting the essentials at my baby shower and just buying clothes, etc myself.

larrygaga

tacky

STARMOON44

Oh my god. All the eye rolls. How about you start adjusting now to accepting whatever gifts people give your non existant children gratefully instead of trying to channel them into a theme.

May you be fruitful and multiply, and blessed with a pack of rabid Giants/Devils fans.

climbingsingle

It's not weird to think about names. That's a pretty big and fun part of having a child. They will most likely have that name forever. Unless you name them la-a and they change it when they're older. 

Thinking of shower invites (when you shouldn't even be planning your own shower) and then asking for opinions about it is weird. Sorry girl. 

banana468

Even though it's a poem, it's still tacky.

But definitely no mentioning of the sports stuff.   And living just a state away, I love my NY teams and try REALLY hard not to buy anything supporting a Boston team.   So if you had some friends like me, there might be a tiny jersey in pinstripes with a #2 on it.   

That and a lot of sports stuff is just really friggin' expensive for babies.   It's about the least practical baby attire out there next to dressy outfits since they grow out of it before they can get a good wearing. 

lacqueredlover

I think the poem part makes it even tackier.  But I don't do cutesy kinda stuff, I think it's all weird.

jenna8984

@banana468 oh yea, good points!

VulgarGirl

Little lady or little man?

 

I really fucking hate this line. If it's a girl she's a "little lady" cute and sweet. Quiet and docile. And if it's a boy he's a "little man" strong, loud, able, masculine.

jenna8984

MagicInk said:

Little lady or little man?

 

I really fucking hate this line. If it's a girl she's a "little lady" cute and sweet. Quiet and docile. And if it's a boy he's a "little man" strong, loud, able, masculine.

Didn't mean it like that AT ALL. Lady is just a word for woman, like on the door where it says "ladies restroom".

lacqueredlover

Oh and usually when you're preggo people buy stuff off the registry.

And making a poem like this doesn't suggest to people to buy sports related things for said child.  It just states the parents sports affiliations.

I'd just scrap this whole idea.

STARMOON44

Lady is so much more than a word for woman. For starters, the male equivalent is gentleman, not man. And you didn't use that. And it's a baby not a lady or a man anyway.

jenna8984

STARMOON44 said:

Lady is so much more than a word for woman. For starters, the male equivalent is gentleman, not man. And you didn't use that. And it's a baby not a lady or a man anyway.

sorry, didn't know everyone was going to get so fucking knit-picky. Literally every one of my friends who have a son often refer to them as their "little man", god forbid.

VulgarGirl

jenna8984 said:

MagicInk said:

Little lady or little man?

 

I really fucking hate this line. If it's a girl she's a "little lady" cute and sweet. Quiet and docile. And if it's a boy he's a "little man" strong, loud, able, masculine.

Didn't mean it like that AT ALL. Lady is just a word for woman, like on the door where it says "ladies restroom".


Wow...thanks for explaining that to me. I usually stand outside bathrooms really confused until I piss myself.

Lady is a loaded term. It doesn't just mean one of the female gender. It means a nice girl. A good girl. Woman is also a word that means woman. Why not little woman or little man? Little girl or little boy?

STARMOON44

That's the danger of tacky cutesy poems. People hate them, and it draws more attention to careless words.

jenna8984

MagicInk said:

jenna8984 said:

MagicInk said:

Little lady or little man?

 

I really fucking hate this line. If it's a girl she's a "little lady" cute and sweet. Quiet and docile. And if it's a boy he's a "little man" strong, loud, able, masculine.

Didn't mean it like that AT ALL. Lady is just a word for woman, like on the door where it says "ladies restroom".

Wow...thanks for explaining that to me. I usually stand outside bathrooms really confused until I piss myself.

Lady is a loaded term. It doesn't just mean one of the female gender. It means a nice girl. A good girl. Woman is also a word that means woman. Why not little woman or little man? Little girl or little boy?


OK. clearly that's not what it means to me, but point taken.

VulgarGirl

jenna8984 said:

STARMOON44 said:

Lady is so much more than a word for woman. For starters, the male equivalent is gentleman, not man. And you didn't use that. And it's a baby not a lady or a man anyway.

sorry, didn't know everyone was going to get so fucking knit-picky. Literally every one of my friends who have a son often refer to them as their "little man", god forbid.

Well sure. Being a little man, like being a man, is a good thing. Being a man means privilege in this world.

Being a lady means waiting for one of those men to show up and help you. It means being quiet and being a "good" girl and a "nice" girl and doing what you're told.

STARMOON44

You realize you don't get to just redefine words to suit your personal preference right? Lady does not mean just a female human of adult age. That word is woman. Lady means something different.

jenna8984

STARMOON44 said:

You realize you don't get to just redefine words to suit your personal preference right? Lady does not mean just a female human of adult age. That word is woman. Lady means something different.

Words have many meanings. I just looked it up in the dictionary and it listed several meanings- one of which yes, you are correct was polite and refined woman. Another was any woman.

lacqueredlover

I always wanted to be a Lady as in royalty.  I think Lady Lacquered Lover has a nice ring to it.

ShesSoCold

jenna8984 said:

This is 100% hypothetical since I'm not even pregnant. But when I am (hopefully) one day, I'd like to not find out the sex. I know how we feel about rhyming stuff being stupid, but how you do feel about something like this on a baby shower invitation?

Little lady or little man?

Either way- a Patriots/ Bruins fan!

I'd love if people got sports related stuff/clothes instead of the 2 generic options at baby stores. Or is that too tacky to write? Not even trying to get ahead of myself, I just think of really weird fucking shit when I can't sleep at 4am haha

 

Welp, as a nutbag Bears/Hawks fan, I'm ashamed to say this but I think it's cute. In a non-gag cutesy way. Baby showers are usually cutesy. It's no worse than the baby shaped watermelon or pink cupcakes. 

STARMOON44

Seriously? You're just wrong! Try Merriam-Webster. Or the OED. Read them. Maybe consider learning something? It can be fun.

flutteringinfl

jenna8984 said:

STARMOON44 said:

You realize you don't get to just redefine words to suit your personal preference right? Lady does not mean just a female human of adult age. That word is woman. Lady means something different.

Words have many meanings. I just looked it up in the dictionary and it listed several meanings- one of which yes, you are correct was polite and refined woman. Another was any woman.

Dude, you should know better than to rely on the "dictionary definition" when you're trying to defend the use of a heavily-connotated word.

emmaaa

I think we're all looking a little too much into the word "lady." 

Do y'all refuse to use the "ladies" restroom because you don't like the connotation of the word? Unless you're a man and don't use the ladies restroom, then that makes sense.