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Student 'girlcott' protests Abercrombie t-shirts
Newsday ^ | November 2, 2005 | BY JIMMY GREENFIELD

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abercrombie; fashion; girlcott; pimpercrombie; tshirt
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To: rockprof

21 posted on 11/04/2005 4:19:08 AM PST by ichabod1 (Alito now, Roe later.)
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To: papertyger

And there you have the whole thing in a nutshell. The male louts who believe and keep on blabbering that 'girls' are nothing but a collection of body parts and they'd just really rather prefer that all the body parts be highlighted for their delectation -- so they'll know whose daughter they can grab.

And of course ALL girls with brains and manners are plain emasculating lesbians with little 'headlights', 'jugs', 'bazooms' or 'boobs'.

Don't you guys ever get tired of the baboon act?


22 posted on 11/04/2005 4:20:26 AM PST by KateatRFM
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To: papertyger
Dollars to doughnuts the girlcotters are either under-endowed, or just plain plain.

There's a fair chance you're right, given (1) they seem to be backed by feminazis, and feminazis on average are aesthetically challenged, and (2) searching high and low fails to turn up a single pic. If they were simply nice christian girls, #1 and #2 above would both be false.

23 posted on 11/04/2005 4:21:03 AM PST by Shalom Israel (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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To: ichabod1
From Drudge:
24 posted on 11/04/2005 4:24:32 AM PST by SubMareener (Become a monthly donor! Free FreeRepublic.com from Quarterly FReepathons!)
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To: Aggie Dad
Remember the old days when A&F is noted for it's high end adventure and safari wear?

My first recollection of A&F.

25 posted on 11/04/2005 4:25:18 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
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To: papertyger

I'm surprised you don't call them lesbians.


26 posted on 11/04/2005 4:27:08 AM PST by cyborg (I'm on the 24 plan having the best day ever.)
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To: KateatRFM

Yes basically :(


27 posted on 11/04/2005 4:28:06 AM PST by cyborg (I'm on the 24 plan having the best day ever.)
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To: .cnI redruM
As a lawyer we hand out t shirts to our client. See below
28 posted on 11/04/2005 4:28:39 AM PST by jmq (Islam=Religion of Peace)
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To: N. Theknow

They had a store at the Broadmoor in Colo Sprgs. As a kid in the 60s I could tell it was special. Holland & Holland guns and outfitters for Safari.


29 posted on 11/04/2005 4:30:43 AM PST by jmq (Islam=Religion of Peace)
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To: papertyger

so the only value of a girl even when protesting is her bust size or appearance?
Porn dosen't just degrade ugly women.
Real women have value created by God.


30 posted on 11/04/2005 4:37:11 AM PST by Rhadaghast (Yeshua haMashiach hu Adonai Tsidkenu)
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To: KateatRFM

No we never get tired of the stimulation which our chemistry is designed to facilitate.

However; real men start to think; If this keeps up, someone will try it with my daughter! Then they get mad.

Bring back the shotgun father's. I am about to be one.


31 posted on 11/04/2005 4:40:50 AM PST by Rhadaghast (Yeshua haMashiach hu Adonai Tsidkenu)
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To: .cnI redruM

This whole thing is a laughable farce. Here is a group of women are protesting the fact that other women wear a shirt they find offensive. They have worked themselves into a frenzy and use their own insecurities and prejudices to blame men for the whole fiasco. Some even redefine it so they can use the controversy as an opportunity get on their soapboxes to call men baboons. Unbelievable.


32 posted on 11/04/2005 4:43:00 AM PST by contemplator (Capitalism gets no Rock Concerts)
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To: .cnI redruM

That's OK, WalMart'll get 'em - either A&F or the t-shirts. Then the little 'hoes will be able to buy them for a right nice price.


33 posted on 11/04/2005 4:43:49 AM PST by dhuffman@awod.com (The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.)
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To: McBuff

Now THAT'S funny!

BTW, I lifted my comment from a fellow's sign he held at the Masters Golf Tournament when about a dozen women were protesting there a couple of years ago.


34 posted on 11/04/2005 4:49:21 AM PST by leadpenny
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To: dhuffman@awod.com

Wow! The shirts will be cheaper than they are.


35 posted on 11/04/2005 5:04:10 AM PST by .cnI redruM (Because change is not something you talk into existence.)
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To: Aggie Dad

I want to see their founders rise from the grave and beat these slimy cockroaches dead. Then, A&F can be respectable again.


36 posted on 11/04/2005 5:08:40 AM PST by Killborn (Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
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To: ichabod1

I notice this girl is appropriately standing in front of latrines...


37 posted on 11/04/2005 5:11:34 AM PST by dinodino (MRS. Dinodino)
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To: KateatRFM



They don't get it...never have, never will.


38 posted on 11/04/2005 5:26:02 AM PST by SouthernFreebird
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To: jmq

"Huge……tracts of land."


39 posted on 11/04/2005 5:32:06 AM PST by solitas (So what if I support an OS that has fewer flaws than yours? 'Mystic' dual 500 G4's, OSX.4.2)
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To: mathluv
They were on Fox one night this week.

I saw them too, on Hannity & Colmes. Although their hearts are in the right place, some of their explanations and rationalizations left something to be desired, IMO.

They used the left-wing tactic of "erroneous labeling," in order to "shame A&F. They asserted that some of the sayings on these shirts were tantamount to racism, of all things, for the following reason. Some of the shirts said something to the effect of "I had a nightmare--I dreamt I was brunette."

This is considered racist, since "not many African Americans are born naturally blonde." I kid you not, this was the logic they used. When I heard this, they quickly lost credibility with me. They could've used any number of cogent arguments to support their case against A&F, and they pulled the racism card.

40 posted on 11/04/2005 6:49:27 AM PST by Lou L
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