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Dec
12
Absolutely sick. From Feministing:
Reader Scarlett saw these oh-so-charming panties in the junior department of her local Wal-Mart on Kildare Farms Road in Cary, NC. There’s nothing quite like telling adolescent girls that they don’t need to worry about finances since they have their very own moneypot between their legs.
Contact customer service here and corporate offices here: let them know that preteen vaginas aren’t commodities.
Liberty Counsel places stores that demonstrate marketing savvy and/or cultural sensitivity on its “naughty” list, and advises people not to shop there because of the absence of the word “Christmas,” but the group will place Wal-Mart on its nice list, even though it sells female underwear that tout selling one’s body, sex and the sex industry? More here on Liberty Counsel’s messed up values.
H/t Jeff Hess.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:01 am December 12th, 2007 in Culture, Parenting, Politics, Social Issues, Women
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And Rome continues to burn…
That is so effed up. I’m speechless.
I’m with you on this one this is much worse than holiday/Christmas, but I think if you’ll dig you’ll find that it’s mainly the Christmas crowd that is also leading the charge against the ProstiTot clothes.
http://www.5minutesformom.com/423/moms-for-modesty/
Jill: If you follow the thread on Feministing, someone points out that on the back of these panties it says, “…when you’ve got Santa.” I can’t tell if it makes me (the father of three young daughters) feel better or worse about this. The fact that it’s a pair of girls underwear we’re talking about makes me lean toward “worse.”
Joe - one-dimension here - what’s your point?
So I shouldn’t give them to you, Lori?
Dave - I followed those links but they seem stale - what exactly were you trying to get me to (what site that is)?
No no no Dave! How can you call yourself a free market conservative if you argue against these panties?! If the MARKET determines that there is a DEMAND for such atrocious junk, then it is the God-given right for the merchant to make a fast buck off of them! That’s what made America great dear boy! The entrepreneurial spirit (and guns)! Who are we to tell this merchant not to sell this legal product? Some kind of Communist? If there’s no DEMAND for them then they won’t sell! See, that’s the “invisible hand” at work and who are WE to argue?
Why look what our capitalist system has done to the very idea of Christmas itself! Its taken the birth of the savior and turned it into the greatest marketing opportunity in the history of mankind! Glory! As Stan Freberg once observed, there’s two ’s’s in Christmas and they’re both dollar signs!
(now removing tongue from cheek): Seriously though, when I think I’ve seen everything I see something like this. And I thought the short shorts with “juicy” on the rear being worn by 10-year-olds was bad enough? But, in a way, going back to what I wrote above, somebody’s mom is allowing it/buying it.
Sorry, I read Kevin O’Brien today (big mistake) and got in a really snarky mood.
Hi Scott - thanks. I did see that mentioned in the thread and all the comments after it that interpreted that as being even creepier.
Yeah - you know - it’s just not proper, no way about it. Maybe at Ambiance or something, but Wal-Mart - in the juniors?
What I really want to know is: who designed them and who okayed the design to be produced? Who decided where they’d go in the store? They don’t seem to be available online but I didn’t spend a ton of time looking.
I have a close relative in the garment business and there are people who have to make a lot of decisions before those panties ever got made. I’d like to know who they were and then who, for Wal-Mart, gave the order to buy the panties.
Well, Keith, I suppose we can hope that no one buys them and they just stay there for picture-taking?
[...] And for fun, if you wonder why those undies came into existence? I’d put money on them coming from someone related to the people who [...]
Oh! Wait! I know I know! Choose me! (it’s my blog - no choice luckily)
It’s a TRANSLATION problem!
You know - like when they tried to translate Coke Adds Life into Chinese - it ended being “Coke Raises Your Dead from the Grave.”
Now - what do you suppose the panties are really supposed to be saying?
[...] I still think all these questions from my original post about the panties should be answered. And I give kudos to Fox for naming Feministing as the place where it all [...]