Abercrombie criticized for selling push-up tops to little girls
By the CNN Wire Staff
March 26, 2011 9:54 p.m. EDT
(CNN) -- No stranger to controversy, U.S. retailer Abercrombie & Fitch has come under fire for offering a push-up bikini top to young girls.
Its "Ashley" bikini -- described as "padded" and a "push-up" -- was posted on the Abercrombie Kids website earlier this week.
The company declined to comment Saturday but noted it has since updated the description of its bikini online.
The product is now being offered as a padded, "striped triangle." Bottoms are sold separately.
"How is this okay for a second-grader?" asked Rebecca Odes in a recent post on the Babble parenting blog.
"Playing at sexy is an inevitable and important part of growing up. But there's a difference between exploring these ideas on your own and having them sold to you in a children's catalog," she wrote.
Gail Dines, a sociology professor at Wheelock College in Boston, similarly slammed the top, saying it would encourage girls to think about themselves in a sexual way before they are ready.
"It (also) sends out really bad signals to adult men about young girls being appropriate sexual objects," she told CNN affiliate WHDH.
This is not the first time the company, known for its sexy style of marketing campaigns, has found itself in hot water with consumers.
In 2002, the retailer pulled controversial T-shirts after complaints they were racially insensitive. One shirt showed Chinese laundry workers with conical hats and the phrase, "Wong Brothers Laundry Service: Two Wongs Can Make It White."
In 2003, the company -- under pressure from some consumer groups -- said it would stop issuing racy catalogues and halt the publication of its holiday book, which featured nude young adult models in sexually suggestive poses.
“One of the main ideas of the Frankfurt School was to exploit Freuds idea of pansexualism - the search for pleasure, the exploitation of the differences between the sexes, the overthrowing of traditional relationships between men and women. To further their aims they would:
attack the authority of the father, deny the specific roles of father and mother, and wrest away from families their rights as primary educators of their children.
abolish differences in the education of boys and girls
abolish all forms of male dominance - hence the presence of women in the armed forces
declare women to be an oppressed class and men as oppressors
Munzenberg summed up the Frankfurt Schools long-term operation thus: We will make the West so corrupt that it stinks.’
When are you bloggers here on FR going to learn about the “Frankfurt School”? Just do a google and read all the articles. No one should be allowed to register here on FR until they have read and studied “The Frankfurt School”. Fabian socialism is economic socialistic revolution, but our cultural socialistic revolution is coming from TFS and it is succeeding because it is top down from the elites in the media, entertainment, education, DemoRats and RINO’S.....
TFS is where “facist” and “racist” denunciations comes from. Do a google for “Critical Theory” +Frankfurt School. Learn what we are confronted with. The die hard left is tickled pink that you do not know about the FS and Critical Theory.
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