Can you help an old lady out?

[senseandsensibility]

Now that I've entered my forties, I am not on the cutting edge anymore or even close. Today on the way home from work, I was driving behind an SUV. Its license plate frame said "Pimp Daddy", on the top, and "Stripper Mommy" on the bottom.

I just don't get this. Are these people parents, and are they delivering children to school in this vehicle? Why would they want to display this around kids? I'm an elementary teacher, very liberal, very tolerant, but I confess, I was disgusted. I see too many kids from families with poor or non-existent parenting skills to find this funny. The hubby, a teacher also, thought it was appalling, too.

We never did pass the SUV to see who was driving.:eyes:

[Career Prole]

1. Curiosity would have gotten the better of me.

I'd have passed even if I missed my exit. :eyes:

[senseandsensibility]

10. I know ! We were trying

but it wasn't on a freeway. It was on a two lane rural road, and they turned right before we could pass them! I live in a small town suburb of a big city, and most people around here are conservative in dress and attitude, if not politics. The vehicle really stood out!

[Eric J in MN]

2. It's not meant literally.

He's saying, I'm a big, rich guy, and I use people.

[Midlodemocrat]

4. I don't know about that.

We have a mom in our neighborhood who is a stripper and she has one of those decal like things on her minivan, you know the one I mean, like the calvin character peeing on Ford, or Chevy, but it is definitely a woman stripping. Really creepy, especially to this ancient mommy.

[jhain]

5. driving the prostitots to dance class

been to a dance recital lately? I had to get up and leave with my 5 yo after being given expensive tickets by a friends who wanted us to see their dd 'dance'.
Tiny 5 and 6 yo doing strip tease type numbers in front of all their grandparents...
poor little ones-sexualized from day one...

[Midlodemocrat]

6. A major reason my girls don't do dance

...ballet is one thing, but the hip hop stuff has gotten really out of hand, the costumes are incredibly provocative and the dancing...well, I think I will go put my asbestos suit on now.

[jhain]

7. can I borrow a sleeve?

kids NEED to be kids.
They have their entire lives to be grown -up.
I see no reason -beside disgusting , vicarious sexuality on the adults' part- for children to be exposed to the things some parents push them into.
So much of what is now taken as 'normal' behavior is utter child abuse in my mind.

[Midlodemocrat]

12. You won't get flamed from me

I totally agree. Kids need to be kids. They grow up soon enough.

[roguevalley]

3. They are what we would call no account white trash wannabes.

Too bad they have so little class. Or as my mom would have said, "Pays to advertise."

[senseandsensibility]

13. I think you're right!

And I don't like to label people usually, but if it fits....

[double_helix]

8. I completely agree.

It's called "porno chic" - you see it all over: from Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, to the little 8 year old girls with sexually suggestive phrases on their shorts (eg. "booty", "boy scouter", etc), to the immature parents with bumper stickers like the one you saw.

Pornography is for adults. Period. It is not intended for children or families, and should never be part of "family culture", the way it has become today. Kids and sex don't mix. It's not funny or cool, no matter how much some idiots want it to be.

[radwriter0555]

9. Well, I'm not OLD at the age of 44, BUT I have to agree with you.. while

allegedly, and apparently in some eyes, humorous .. I find, as you do, that to be completely inappropriate.

HOPEFULLY they're niether pimps, strippers OR parents, and it was just a very very poor taste attempt at being hip n trendy.

Of course others will totally disagree with me on the whole thong and panty line issue for teens, but's an Oprah episode for another day.

[kittykitty]

11. "SHIT HAPPENS on T-Shirt of Grandmother picking up child from kindergardn

Not only that, but they were "walkers" and walking home through a small town. And I guess at 66 I can be called old. I was appalled.

[BBradley]

14. You old people spend too much time being offended

:evilgrin:

[senseandsensibility]

16. No, we don't

And I really, really, REALLY resent that!!!:9

[LibDemAlways]

15. On Halloween at my daughter's middle school

several of the boys were dressed as pimps. The reaction of my 11-year-old: "Hey, that kid is dressed like a pimp. Mom, what's a pimp?"