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Sure do hate that bikini chick poster in a kids' room, boy or girl. Looks like it's more about the parents still being arty poseurs than about the child enjoying his or her room.

I bet my 8 year old daughter would love this room, even the bikini chick. But thats my daughter's taste. For sure her older sister wouldn't want anything to do with the poster.

Sure its a result of the parents' influence (or the rug company's influence!), but I bet there are a lot of kids who would choose a cool art poster once they're past the age of 7 or 8 if they were allowed. (I don't necessarily love the fact that in this case the cool poster is a bikini clad woman yadda yadda stereotypes etc)

I've actually been browsing Etsy with my kid to try to find some cool prints for her room and I'm always surprised at what she likes - she's into some very modern photography and very abstract prints.

Maybe if kids grow up around "artsy" or design conscious parents their style influences them to be choosy about their own artwork too. I don't think its necessarily a bad thing, is it? I mean, we're all here reading design blogs...

Maybe it's not a little girl's room. Maybe it's a little boy's room. Maybe you should just say it's a child's room.

maybe its an old man's room. maybe we should just call it a room. or maybe its not even a room at all.

Ceci n'est pas une PIPE

I think these parents (well, rug company designers) think the poster shows a fun, strong, healthy woman. What's wrong with the picture? She's too skinny? She's wearing a modest bikini? I think it provides a good balance to the pink all over the place- it makes the color seem more empowering.

suewanda,

What's with the obscene remark in French in your post. Really inappropriate especially on a kid oriented site. Hopefully mods take care of that.

joebelt, ever heard of Rene Magritte? :)

yeah, but we all (at least the French speaking ones of us) know what it really means and it's not appropriate on this page.

joebelt -- you know that is not how it was meant.

It's not appropriate on such a page. End of story. Sorry but I am offended that someone would even jokingly write this on ohdeedoh.

joebelt -- it is YOU who made it obscene, and YOU who are being offensive.

And while you are busy being outraged that Magritte was quoted on ohdeedoh, why don't you complain to the FCC about Boston Legal, since episode 15 of season 2 (Smile) dared have an older male lawyer discuss 'ceci n'est pas une pipe' with a 9 year old girl.

http://www.boston-legal.org/15-smile/ep15-smile.shtml

Newsflash: to English speakers, a pipe is just a pipe.

I would have loved this room as a little girl.

As far as the print, I love it. I would have loved it then, too. I was obsessed with frankie and annette movies when I was 7ish and that bikini looks just like the ones in all those old movies. You can read more into it if you want, but a little girl will most likely say that the print is about summer and retro and cool.

And the ones who read more into the print than need be also are the ones who read more into phrases than need be.

btw -- it is a room shared by two sisters...

you can see a fuller picture of it in Judith Wilson's book Babies Rooms from Zero to Three (pages 72 - 73, with a different Rug Company rug).

monika1,

I'm glad you take your moral and value cues from late night t.v shows. I do not.

i just read the comment about me making an obscene remark (yes over a year later).

I'm glad that most people realized that my comment was absolutely not intended to be taken as obscene. It was meant more like "call it what it is".

So the paining of a pipe that says its not a painting of a pipe, really *is* a pipe. Thats what I was tryin to say.

In terms of this room, a room that *really* looks like a girls room can be called a girls room. I really don't think we need to be that politically correct to not call a pink room a girls room.

Anyhow, please accept my apologies joebelt and anyone else who was offended - I sincerely meant no disrespect.