Are America's Retailers, Advertisers and Media Ruining Women's Self-Esteem and Self-Worth?
I would have to say YES.
Thank god there are young women out there who are objecting to the way women and girls are being portrayed and exploited. I'm sick and tired of seeing all these young, smart beautiful girls whose main goal in life is to pose for playboy.
Don't even get me started on this subject, because I don't have the time to go off about it right now. Abercrombie & Fitch will now be on my permanent boycott list (along with McDonald's and Walmart).
It is obvious the company doesn't care about women and don't think much of women if they would think to make a T-Shirt like this!!!
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Retailer Abercrombie & Fitch said on Friday it would stop selling some of its T-shirts after a national boycott by teenage girls, who objected to slogans emblazoned across the shirts such as "Who needs brains when you have these?"
The teen-oriented apparel company, often criticized for its suggestive advertising featuring scantily-clad young models, did not specify which T-shirts it would pull but said in a brief statement that "We recognize that the shirts in question, while meant to be humorous, might be troubling to some."
Earlier this week, the Women & Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania launched a "girl-cott" of the store in protest over the T-shirts, launching an e-mail campaign and appearing on NBC's "Today" show to air their concerns.
Other T-shirts featured the slogans "Blondes are adored, brunettes are ignored," and "I make you look fat."
The latest controversy is not the first for the New Albany, Ohio-based retailer. Two years ago, Abercrombie & Fitch pulled its glossy catalogs that featured nude men and women after protests, and in 2002 it discontinued a line of T-shirts that Asian-Americans claimed was racially insensitive.
Abercrombie & Fitch on Thursday reported a 31 percent jump in its October same-store sales, a key measure of retail performance.
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