i don't get it. is this supposed to be an adoption shirt? why do the two adults and the kid look so different? is this two people of color with a white baby? is it supposed to be two men? i'm confused.

all I can see is las tetas. Or do I just have a dirty mind?

I guess it's saying that the child is the future by putting a spotlight on her/him and shadowing the parents. Or at least I hope that's what they're saying. Weird.

*I saw the boobs too. It was like that young woman in a hat/old crone optical illusion. It kept switching back and forth on me. Very disconcerting.

It's creepy. I don't like that the parents are sketched in with no details and the child is dressed in pink. Each of those things disturb me for different reasons.

*Disclaimer: My comments on the God-awful design of said t-shirt logo should not be taken in any way as a criticism of the organization for which it stands.

Glad I'm not the only one who just thought "Hey, breasts!"

The actual design of the shirt is so-so. I can think of kind ("we're focusing on the children, so let's have that stand out") and unkind ("look! we've stolen a child that doesn't look like us!") interpretations. I think I'd want to know what the URL was under the words, and where it was worn, and by whom (and preferably who made it), before I came to any other conclusions.

two males with a child?
it almost seems like it would be a shirt for an adoption agency because they are definitely showing a contrast between the child and parents.

yeah, magniloquence...i dont know the background. just the image seemed odd to me! two dark monolithic characters towering over a tiny peach baby. aside from the fact that worn on a body, it would be hard not to see those shapes as breasts.

i can also see the baby as an odd arrow pointing at a spot on a torso.

The first thing I thought was boobs. I have a dirty mind too, Kactus. I suppose it could be two black men adopting a white daughter though.

I thought it was a *maternity* T-shirt in poor taste, until I decoded it and came up with the other questions and reactions that have already been listed.

I'm spotting a lot of different stuff too.

You can see two males with a child, one woman with a child in her "womb" (hence the tetas), a man and a woman (if you want to use the stereotype of women being smaller than men) and a child, and then racialized versions of all three of those things. Or a child against a black-and-white backdrop, for emphasis.

I can see the titties after having them pointed out. I can also see a face with two beady eyes, a nose and a strange pink mustach. But, as an adoptive parent, I originally saw two adults holding hands, together their bodies form a house that is sheltering a child. All three are simple abstracted shapes which fit together nicely to make one unit. The heads are three circles which ties the individuals together as equals. The adults have their arms raised which could mean 'joy' or could be reaching up for something. The child is an arrow pointed upwards, she WILL grow. Both adults are black on white giving me a sense of power and permanence. The smaller child shape is a brighter color which stands out - meaning, to me, that the child is the focus of this story. And truly, adopted or not, the child is always what the story is about. They probably would not express it the way I have, but most foster / adoptive parents I know would agree with the sentiment. We do tend to be a mushy lot.

URL of group and pictures:

EsperanzasHope.com
Custom products for multicultural and adoptive families

http://www.cafepress.com/esperanzashope/2557698

yes. there certainly are a lot of different ways one could see it...

My first reaction, likely fueled by a phenomenal number of epic quest fantasy novels, was "innocent ventures into dark forest."

After that, it just got weirder.

I saw eyes staring down at the child, not breasts pending from above, and then the pose of the stylized child had me twitching at the idea of a child's -skin- stretched between two, harsh, bare-limbed trees in a winter deadened forest.

Seriously, either I need medication stat, or that image managed to make it past however many people who, for some reason, had their 'disturb-o-meter' turned off.

i agree, z...it hit me very oddly. i sort of agree with christina. it feels somewhat disturbing. it may be as simple as how much the smaller warm-colored shape does not match the other two shapes. the black, curving shapes that don't even seem to see the smaller figure...they leave it in the middle quite isolated and dwarfed. they reach up, they are monolithic. but as i was just saying...so many ways to see things, eh? someone above said that the child is sheltered in a house, but the child looks trapped to me, and with hardly room to move. OR the child could be in a bright doorway. under a couple really big boobs.

first i saw a mixed-race family. then breasts. then martinis and a salt-shaker.