Target store chain void of common decency (ACTION ALERT)

AFA.net ^ | 9/25/03 | Don Wildmon

[truthandlife]

Would you believe Target has approved its Marshall Field's stores to sell a product called FCUK? Target must consider parents really naive to not know exactly what type of message they are "targeting" to our kids.

Here's how one mother put it:

I didn't see this on television but it was an advertisement insert in last Sunday's newspaper for Marshall Field's dept. store for a cologne and a clothing line aimed at teenagers called "Fcuk" and their advertising slogan to go with it is "scent to bed". I was really appalled at this and then a friend of mine saw huge posters promoting this IN the Marshall Field's store in my area. When she complained to a clerk about it she was referred to a manager who told her the corporate office makes all the decisions about what they advertise. Another mother put it this way:

Not only does the name make an obvious grab at the mind to be misspelled as one of the vilest slang words ever used, it also goes further to make its point. A young, attractive, half dressed couple are snuggling on a bed with the words "scent to bed" superimposed over their picture. On the inside where you can pull the flyer apart to see what the product smells like you read "open here to try fcuk her" and "open here to try fcuk him". On the back page is an offer to "get your scent to bed t-shirt". For a major retailer to promote and sell this type of product is reprehensible to me. I hope it is to you too! I think we need to pull out all the stops to let Target know they have crossed the line with our families.

ACTION NEEDED Will you join me by making an extra effort in contacting the Target corporation by taking action? We already know the Target will block emails sent through the AFA Action Alert system, so your extra effort is greatly appreciated!

Call Target's toll-free number and let them know how disgusted you are with their decision to sell FCUK products through their Marshall Field's stores. Their toll free number is 1-800-440-0680, extension 1.

Here's a note: You will be told that you are calling Target, not Marshall Field's. Don't be fooled by their attempt to discourage you. Target is responsible for Marshall Field's decision to sell their nasty product!

In addition, they may ask for your mailing address. We recommend not giving that information. By doing so, your home might become a target for receiving a promotional mail out for the product.

Additional contact information:

Headquarters Address Target Stores 1000 Nicollet Mall Minneapolis, MN 55403 (612) 304-6073 Fax: 612-696-3731 Online comment form: Click Here

[Travis McGee]

Do you choose to explain what (spelled out) F*CK means to your 7 year old daughter?

Sorry pal, shoving F*CK or FCUK into my 7 year old daughter's face is to me very little different than shoving your out thrust pelvis in her face.

Do it around her in my presence, and you will learn about the culture war.

[ppaul]

The new style is mid-thigh to knee length plain white logo-less t-shirts over whatever else they've got on.

Well, at least we won't have to see their cracks, eh?

[ppaul]

In two years it will just be F*CK spelled out, in public, everywhere.

It already is.
Where've you been, brother?

[Travis McGee]

What a time to be raising kids. Sigh.

[teeman8r]

how our children see us react, rationally or irrationally, sets the basis how they will handle situation. fcuk, sounded out correctly, phkuk, means nothing.

i would have told my seven year old, "it spells phkuk, a nonsense word." his interest in it would have been over....

if he misread the hat, which is possible for a new reader to do, i would have corrected his pronunciation, and informed him that the word he was pronouncing was indeed an offensive word that he shouldn't utter. he doesn't hear that word from me or my associates so in practice he would know that he shouldn't utter it...

now graphic displays of sexual positions are another story, they are what they are, innapropriate for children, but words that aren't even the words that are offensive sets a dangerous precedent.

i cannot tell you how to raise your children, i can tell you i think your reaction was an over-reaction to the situation. that is my right and i respect your right to speak out for the sake of your children, just be careful what lessons you are showing them in the manner of your actions.

[joyce11111]

LOL...my Brother lives in Wayzata.

[joyce11111]

I went to Hopkins HS

[Lockbar]

I saw a bunch of the "FCUK" tee-shirts on display at a Marshall Fields store in Illinois. Man, did I do a double take. I'm kind of consider myself to be a bit of a "South Park Republican", but I thought that brand is really weird, and strange that a high end store would sell that. Nobody is fooling anybody. You can suger coat a dog turd, but inside its still a dog turd.

[CanisRex]

Will you join me by making an extra effort in contacting the Target corporation by taking action?

Sorry, but I have a life.

My sentiments exactly.

[DLfromthedesert]

Go to Walgreen's or Sears. Sears is supporting reservists that are their employees by making up the pay that they're losing while they're deployed.

[joyce11111]

yikes...me...class of 1952...lol

[CanisRex]

Read on. I am amazed by the number of freepers who just don't care when this FCUK message is put in front of their children

Actually, there is a fairly large contingent of libertarian leaning freepers (me only slightly) around. I do firmly believe in the freedoms afforded by the Bill of Rights and Amendment I is pretty explicit. Going off on some knucklehead in IHOP because he had a non-word on a cap obviously made you feel better, but what a great life's lesson you could have given your kids on the freedoms we enjoy and the responsibilites that come with those freedoms. Just my two cents.

[Travis McGee]

Your beloved libertarian values Uber Alles will come to a screeching halt when your hat shouts F*CK or FCUK at my 7 year old daughter from ten feet away in a family restaruant.

And if you don't believe me, try it.

The hat will go off of your head, or you will go out the door, and my kids will get to learn (again) that their dad is not a jelly-spined perv worm who thinks flashing obscene words at children in family restaurants is Okie Dokie.

Like you.

[Travis McGee]

That plan wouldn't work, because my children aren't stupid.

Nice try though.

[teeman8r]

it is not a matter of intelligence, but of enlightenment...

best of luck to your children

[shetlan]

I have a friend named Woody Lipshitz--nice guy.

[Possenti]

My own skirmish in the culture war.

Way to go. You sound like a Buchanan supporter with your choice of words.

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke

That pretty much explains why our Republic is where it is now.

[Travis McGee]

If you want to teach your 7 year old daughter about f*cking and fcuking, I feel very sorry for her.