We often hear stories of sexist children’s clothes, but what do we think of this?
Twitter user Laura Goss today shared this photo of what she called a stupid hat online and to be honest, we don’t think she’s far wrong
Hey @nationaltrust – this stupid hat is for sale at Tatton Park. Your young female visitors deserve better merch (+ better grammar) pic.twitter.com/isTBCSHm3L
— Laura Goss (@sparklepanties) August 29, 2017
Emblazoned with the words ‘Future Footballers Wife’ (spot the grammatical error), Laura claims she saw the hat in a gift shop at Tatton Park, National Trust-run Tudor estate in the UK.
Other people online were fairly unhappy about what they deemed the sexist message on the hat.
Awful awful. They should know better.
— Jayney (@jayney1963) August 30, 2017
Very offensive that at what is seen as an educational place, a girl is marketed to that being someone’s something is aspirational
— Dr Anne Teather (@pre_historic) August 30, 2017
Great job calling this #everydaysexism out.
— Amie-Rose Long (@amieroselong) August 29, 2017
Well spotted. Trying to imagine the hat.. “future footballers husband” for all the little boys aspiring to marry well ?
— Laura Bevis (@loverlylauraloo) August 29, 2017
How about just ‘Future footballer’? England women’s team wins more than the men
— Wendy Pillar (@jwPillar) August 29, 2017
The management at Tatton Park has since tweeted to confirm that the hat has been removed from sale.
…Following your complaint we can confirm that they have been removed from sale. We apologise for any offence caused. 2/2
— Tatton Park (@tatton_park) August 29, 2017
Cheshire East Council, which runs the estate, said in a statement; “Our gift shop receives a bulk supply from our supplier, which includes a number of children’s hats.
“Unfortunately, we don’t know how this has exactly happened, but we have put the hats out on the shelf as part of that bulk supply without thinking whether they were appropriate for the shop and our visitors.”
