Moral absolutes ping
I think they are outvoted by buyers...
A&F finds out that marketing to ho's has its consequences.
I'm of two minds about this. As a father of a daughter, I really don't like the whole "slutty is cool" marketing blitz the past few years.
OTOH, if you don't like it, don't buy it. I know a few college age and older ladies who would love T-shirts like that, and can afford to shop at A&F. It seems like these "outraged" ladies are imposing their standards on the rest of us.
My old social studies teacher put it well: "This a free country, and you are free to swing your arms; but your right to swing your arms ends at the end of my nose."
Reminds me of the good folks who picket outside those little stores that sell candles, incense, crystals, herbs and "wicked" books. If you don't like it, don't shop there. If nobody shops there, they'll go out of business.
Interesting that the left-wing blogs are lauding these young girls as well.
According to Google search, she's a young rabble-rouser for a variety of far-left causes. Oh yeah, she's also a lesbian (obviously-what self-respecting straight girl would wear hair and make-up like that?)who says she came out in the eighth grade. Still backing her cause?
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Simple. Don't like it? Don't buy it.
It cracks me up to see young women wearing shirts emblazoned with slogans like those across the front.
I'm amused by how stupid it is to proclaim to the world of one's blind idiocy. It's like carrying around a sign that says, "Pick Me - I'm TRASHY!
And now, an anecdote on this subject - a true story from the life of this ol' Draka:
One morning a few years back, I was going through my morning routine of dropping by the Quik-Stop to pick up a cup of coffee on my way to work.
As I came out with my coffee and smokes, I saw a hideous beast of a woman putting gas in her tank. I mean she was ugly - butt-ugly. Obese, pasty, dirty, and wearing a belly-shirt and one of those pairs of shorts that had a slogan on the back.
When I read the word printed across that woman's sagging, nasty-looking butt, I had to duck into my car real quick so she wouldn't hear me laughing at what her shorts had written on them.
Now I suppose the word was supposed to imply that she was so dead sexxay that she always gets everything she wants.
I interpreted it in a completely opposite fashion.
The word?
SPOILED
The moral of the story is this:
Never advertize your goods with a word that some of the population associate with the contents of the mysterious Tupperware bowl that's been in the back of the refrigerator for six months.
Perhaps the left and right has find a sliver of agreement then. Who knows.
I know, that my boys 15 and 12 are the type that need to be reminded to find new socks atleast every Monday. When I had my sister in law over with her 17 and 14 year old boy and girl I was shocked by the damn shopping bag they carried, it was A&F. This from my daily mass attending sister in law. (note: it was the prostrate young shirtless man. You could see down so low there should have been some hairline..I digress)
I have learned to be thankful I need to remind them still to brush their teeth and use shampoo. I feel for those parents that have to deal with this and glad I don't have kids pressuring me about what they wear.
