“Luckily he’s also youthful to realize he seems different to other youngsters with his glasses, but this Tesco selection is really disturbing.
“I realize that nerds and geeks are fashionable now, but individuals phrases nevertheless have negative connotations to many. Those t-shirts had been stereotyping, saying all people with glasses are nerds. It truly is profiling, and it truly is incorrect.”
Logan has had corrective surgery on his eyes three occasions and the thick cataracts indicate he has quite minor peripheral vision.
In a letter to the supermarket, Miss Whitaker wrote: “Tesco can you please inform me why it is acceptable to promote children’s clothes that have photos of animals sporting glasses with the word NERD / GEEK on them?
“It’s ‘fashion’ statements like this that give kids the unfavorable associations to glasses.
“Teaching young children that you are a ‘geek’ if you dress in glasses, and are of a reduced self-well worth than the ‘rest of the gang,’ despite the fact that it may possibly only appear like a t-shirt to some men and women it truly is issues like this that motivate bullying, harm self-picture and leave a lasting notion in a younger impressionable thoughts.
“Why is it Ok to have a damaging connotation related to someone’s impairment? Why should my son increase up with men and women creating exciting of him because it’s ‘fashionable’?”
Following the apology from Tesco, Miss Whitaker, who is engaged to Logan’s father Dave Kelly, a carpenter, mentioned: “I am extremely pleased Tesco has taken my message significantly. Hopefully it will have an impact on the selections created by other merchants.”
Mother forces Tesco to pull variety of outfits featuring glasses-sporting "geeks"
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