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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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?
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.
My first recollection of A&F.
I'm surprised you don't call them lesbians.
Yes basically :(
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wow! The shirts will be cheaper than they are.
I want to see their founders rise from the grave and beat these slimy cockroaches dead. Then, A&F can be respectable again.
I notice this girl is appropriately standing in front of latrines...
They don't get it...never have, never will.
"Huge……tracts of land."
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.
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