Shop owner hit with complaints after displaying rude Mother’s Day card in his window
Defiant Kirsty Mizon-Taylor tells detractors in Reigate, Surrey: 'If you don't like it, don't buy it'
A SHOP owner has been hit with complaints from so-called yummy mummies after she displayed a Mother's Day card bearing the word vagina in her window.
To accompany it Kirsty Mizon-Taylor also placed a sign that echoed its text of “Mum, I'm sorry I ruined your vagina”.
But locals in Reigate, Surrey failed to see the funny side and confronted Kirsty - demanding she take the display at boutique Taylor Jayne down.
Kirsty, 38, said: ""It was a couple of weeks before Mothering Sunday and a lady came in on her own and said she was there on behalf of other mothers.
"She just didn't like the card in the window - she said it was inappropriate and that the mums don't want their children to see it.
"She wanted me to take it out the window but I said no - it's not a bad word, it's the correct terminology.
"A couple of hours later another woman came in and said the same thing, and that it wasn't enticing people into the shop.
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"I wouldn't have put a swear word in the window, and I thought it was a funny tongue-in-cheek card, I've had so much support and a handful of negativity.
"We're not going to please everybody and if you don't like it then don't buy it, you've got a choice."
After the criticism Kirsty, 38, took to Facebook and wrote a post that reached more than 8,500 people.
Some of her supporters even tried to get #Vaginagate trending in support of the card.
She added: "Most of the responses were really positive and supportive but there were still some people saying things like 'the school run is hard enough without children asking difficult questions' and that we were 'not enticing people into our shop with that kind of language in the window'."
The mum-of-three has now decided to take on a London to Brighton walk to raise money for gynaecological cancer charity The Eve Appeal, who fund research into womb, ovarian, cervical, vaginal and vulval cancer.
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