Posted on 11/04/2005 3:30:20 AM PST by .cnI redruM
With a few words on their T-shirts, Abercrombie & Fitch lets young women send a message: "Who needs a brain when you have these?"
A group of female high school students have a message for A&F: Stop degrading us.
The Allegheny County (Pa.) Girls have started a boycott--or girlcott, as they're calling it--of the retailer. The campaign, conceived three weeks ago during the group's monthly meeting, went national Tuesday morning on NBC's "Today" show.
"We're telling [girls] to think about the fact that they're being degraded," Emma Blackman-Mathis, the 16-year-old co-chair of the group, told RedEye on Tuesday. "We're all going to come together in this one effort to fight this message that we're getting from pop culture."
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Ever-Crummy and B*tch. An equal opportunity slimer. Didn't they put out a "I hate boys" design some months ago?
"Girlcott" this!
Iron my shirt, b_____!
They were on Fox one night this week.
Well I'm glad to see some girls are getting sick and tired of what is being fed to them.
The publicity will just sell more shirts.
Remember the old days when A&F is noted for it's high end adventure and safari wear? Boy, did THAT company go a wildly different direction...
Yeah, they went for the cheap buck.
Societies' message to our young daughters - it's cool to be a stupid slut.
Brains serve you well throughout life, no one cares about your chest when you get older.
Don't count on it. Dollars to doughnuts the girlcotters are either under-endowed, or just plain plain.
Abercrombie is expert at stirring up things like this in order to get free publicity. I would not be surprised if this whole thing was a put-up job.
I agree. I have a jacket I purchased over 15 years ago that I still wear. It's a shame they have fallen this far, but I say the best protest is simply to ignore the store, the shirts, and the person(s) who wear them. The most sensitive spot of any business is the wallet.
Right because pretty girls or those with big chests are basically sluts and will wear these shirts.
Brains don't sag after 30.
Small girls get the last laugh.
Hmmmm...maybe I should make that into a T-shirt.
Leadpenny, nothing is gained by this juvenile insult to women and. .heh. .I, for one, would like . .heh, he. . .to suggest ..haw haw that you take ha haw HA HA ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!
Take a trip to the mall.
I don't need to, I have a teenage daughter with lots of very pretty, not flat chested friends. They don't like cheap tacky belittling clothes either.
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