As if selling thongs for 10 year olds wasn't bad enough

Nov 04, 2005 11:14

Recently a group of middle school girls have been girlcotting (mad props to the group for using that term) Abercrombie and Fitch for marketing new "attitude" shirts with slogans such as:
"Who needs brains when you have these?"


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quasoior November 4 2005, 16:56:59 UTC
what i love is in the response that they gave about the shirts being marketed to "mature women" .. as if that is soo much better.. way to pin women against each other..
i have never set foot in that store.. but i would bet money there isn't too many middle aged women shopping at A&E

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quasoior November 4 2005, 19:21:09 UTC
its horrible because not only do we have ads and magazines and shows portraying an unrealistic female image.. but now they are selling shirts so that women can do it to !!
yay!!!

i can't believe any parent would buy their 10 year old thong underwear.. i think what makes the whole situation worse is the quote "eye candy" on the 10 YEAR OLDS UNDERWEAR

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quasoior November 4 2005, 19:29:12 UTC
good point

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mamabat_76 November 4 2005, 22:25:43 UTC
God!! I hate this shit and they wonder what the hell is wrong with people?????????????????????????????????? I am going to stop thinking about this right now before I get irrate at work!!!

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zvezda November 5 2005, 17:24:24 UTC
Where do redheads fit into the scheme of life?

I have never shopped at Abercrombie but now I see that was a good thing. I am uncool, though.

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quasoior November 5 2005, 17:30:13 UTC
i guess redheads don't fit into the bleached out life scheme of abercrombie and fitch.. i have never seen the need to shop in a store for overpriced trendy cookie cutter cltohing..

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mandakaryn November 7 2005, 01:36:26 UTC
Congrats to you for this post! I didn't even know about it. That's so fucked up that they would print those.

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