Comments on: Breaking writing trance for this http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2007/12/12/breaking-writing-trance-for-this/ "She is very powerful, so be nice to her." Chancellor, Ohio Board of Regents, Eric Fingerhut Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:03:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Update FROM JEFF HESS: Fox News reports Wal-Mart pulling a wedgie on panties | Writes Like She Talks http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2007/12/12/breaking-writing-trance-for-this/comment-page-1/#comment-38288 Update FROM JEFF HESS: Fox News reports Wal-Mart pulling a wedgie on panties | Writes Like She Talks Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:10:48 +0000 http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2007/12/12/breaking-writing-trance-for-this/#comment-38288 [...] 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 [...] [...] 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 [...]

]]> By: Jill Miller Zimon http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2007/12/12/breaking-writing-trance-for-this/comment-page-1/#comment-38071 Jill Miller Zimon Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:52:12 +0000 http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2007/12/12/breaking-writing-trance-for-this/#comment-38071 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? 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?

]]> By: Politics at Lunch | Writes Like She Talks http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2007/12/12/breaking-writing-trance-for-this/comment-page-1/#comment-38070 Politics at Lunch | Writes Like She Talks Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:51:32 +0000 http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2007/12/12/breaking-writing-trance-for-this/#comment-38070 [...] 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 [...] [...] 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 [...]

]]> By: Jill Miller Zimon http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2007/12/12/breaking-writing-trance-for-this/comment-page-1/#comment-38069 Jill Miller Zimon Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:50:32 +0000 http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2007/12/12/breaking-writing-trance-for-this/#comment-38069 Well, Keith, I suppose we can hope that no one buys them and they just stay there for picture-taking? :) Well, Keith, I suppose we can hope that no one buys them and they just stay there for picture-taking? :)

]]> By: Jill Miller Zimon http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2007/12/12/breaking-writing-trance-for-this/comment-page-1/#comment-38068 Jill Miller Zimon Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:49:20 +0000 http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2007/12/12/breaking-writing-trance-for-this/#comment-38068 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. 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.

]]> By: Keith http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2007/12/12/breaking-writing-trance-for-this/comment-page-1/#comment-38067 Keith Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:49:08 +0000 http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2007/12/12/breaking-writing-trance-for-this/#comment-38067 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. 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.

]]> By: Jill Miller Zimon http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2007/12/12/breaking-writing-trance-for-this/comment-page-1/#comment-38065 Jill Miller Zimon Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:46:18 +0000 http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2007/12/12/breaking-writing-trance-for-this/#comment-38065 Dave - I followed those links but they seem stale - what exactly were you trying to get me to (what site that is)? Dave – I followed those links but they seem stale – what exactly were you trying to get me to (what site that is)?

]]> By: Jill Miller Zimon http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2007/12/12/breaking-writing-trance-for-this/comment-page-1/#comment-38063 Jill Miller Zimon Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:45:16 +0000 http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2007/12/12/breaking-writing-trance-for-this/#comment-38063 So I shouldn't give them to you, Lori? ;) So I shouldn’t give them to you, Lori? ;)

]]> By: Jill Miller Zimon http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2007/12/12/breaking-writing-trance-for-this/comment-page-1/#comment-38062 Jill Miller Zimon Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:44:53 +0000 http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2007/12/12/breaking-writing-trance-for-this/#comment-38062 Joe - one-dimension here - what's your point? :) Joe – one-dimension here – what’s your point? :)

]]> By: Scott http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2007/12/12/breaking-writing-trance-for-this/comment-page-1/#comment-38047 Scott Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:31:32 +0000 http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2007/12/12/breaking-writing-trance-for-this/#comment-38047 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." 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.”

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