Easy answer: walk the kids using a different route, maybe by a church or cathedral. Problem solved.
Some of the ugliest chicks in the U.S. work at Victoria’s Secret.
A friend had a similar experience when her 1st grade son asked her about the "pills that make the man smile". Cable has become a cesspool for advertisers.
They used to keep these types of store displays zoned.
No. What's lunacy is the people who are not comfortable with their own skin and so project these views on other people. Simple solution. Don't want your kids exposed to it, go to a different mall, take a different route. Plus...they're mannequins, or static ads.
I should go buy one of these:
It’s the truth. Our culture is sex asoaked and violence addicted. It’s sickening. This guy thinks it’s bad at Abercrombie and Fitch (and it is!) but go to a girls store and see what you see. Little girls in skin tight jeans and tank tops on posters everywhere. It’s like they just can’t wait to turn our kids into tramps.
You live in NY thats 90% of the problem
Could be worse. You could live in Denmark... What do these naked women have to do with Washing Machines?
Remember when bra commercials on TV had the actresses wearing a bra over a sweater?
You are absolutely right, and the commercials on TV as well.
Calling the mall manager is actually brilliant and something we can all do. Consumer pressure is about the only thing left.
Sex sells, if we want stores and advertisers to stop using it to sell, we have to stop buying it. We don’t have to let the madmen tell us what our behavior will be.
Up until about aged 11 my son used to turn his head and get grossed out when we walked past Victoria’s Secret, now (at 13) that little so&so does his best to get a look in the store. I try to cover his eyes and he says “MOMMM!”
We really are moving toward a porn culture. Shops in the mall (not just Victoria’s Secret) have overtly sexual displays and merchandise (ever go into a Spencer Gifts?). Even “mainstream” bookstores sell overt porn. And I’m no Puritan about this stuff—I don’t want it banned, just kept in a place where it isn’t so overt. I agree there are no easy answers. I guess we have to raise kids right so that when they see these things, they will understand them in context and understand that, while there is nothing wrong with a naked human body, that they shouldn’t respond in the wrong way to these mall displays.
Good for you!
I hope more people do as you did.
And your sense of humor saves the day.
It seems a majority of people have lost all sense of themselves as legitimate-— I mean that people in genereal seem to think that television and the media have all the authority. That we are peasants and have no right to complain. That the big corporations, and media and advertising are somehow the great Authorities against which we have no recourse. We have to accept anything they throw out.
The only other way is avoidance. Slink away and don’t make a fuss.
We have to stop thinking like that.
Well, at least the Muslims with their women covered up in burkas have the right idea. Of course, behind their own closed doors they take them off. It’s just that they don’t want other men in public to see them.
I wonder how Victoria’s Secret would look with the latest fashion in burkas... LOL..
I know how you feel...
Every year we go to the Jersey shore (SEASIDE) and I noticed a lot of girls ages 12-16 looking like hookers.
I asked one of the local police on the Boardwalk what was going on..This was his response:
Oh, you mean the prostitots? (pros-ti-tots)
That’s the accepted term for this look at the jersey shore, from the locals...
WE haven’t been back since!!!
and seriously, have you walked in there lately? the music is as loud as a frat party. i swear to god i am not that old but you literally cannot talk to the sales people. it's amazing.