February 3, 2008 12:38 PM
Abercrombie & Fitch porn pitch must end
Breaking news:
Virginia Beach police seize photos from Abercrombie store By Steve Stone The Virginian-Pilot © February 3, 2008Police, saying they were responding to citizen complaints, carted away two large promotional photographs from the Abercrombie & Fitch store in Lynnhaven Mall on Saturday and cited the manager on obscenity charges.
Adam Bernstein, a police spokesman, said the seizure and the issuance of the summons came only after store management had not heeded warnings to remove the images.
Read entire story here.
And then you might want to file complaints where you live and get these offensive larger-than-life displays pulled from the shopping malls where you walk your strollers.
(I steer clear of malls myself, and thank the Lord my kids don't like to hang out there either.)
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Comments
I read the article and I found the comments left by readers after the article just as offensive as the pornography that A&F displays for Mall visitors. People angry at the VB police department for their actions and saying such things as "here go the bible thumpers again". Very sad for us stroller-pushing mom's that are trying to raise modest children. Next up Victoria Secret and their displays within neon signs attracting attention.
Posted by: Margaret | February 3, 2008 3:06 PM
wow! very encouraging! Who do you think you "complain" to?? I'm so curious why these images get the attention of complainers, but Victoria's Secret doesn't! Any thoughts??
Posted by: shawnda | February 3, 2008 6:19 PM
Thank you for posting this. A few years ago when my little girl was almost two years old, we went to the mall. (Which we hardly ever do) THis was the first time I was exposed to this certain store. I believe it was around Christmas time, and it seems *everyone* were toting those shopping bags with naked people on them.
I was very offended, and went to the store to complain.(Which happened to be across from Build-A-Bear) I was given a customer service number to call. In which I did. The lady gave me some dumb spiel that the store originally started as a clothing company for "nature". So those photos reflected the "natural" aspect of human beings.
HA! I made it very clear, that I wasn't going to be shopping there.
I did notice the last time I was at the mall, that Victoria Secret had only headless mannequins displaying their underwear in the windows; and no pictures.
Posted by: Mommy | February 3, 2008 10:57 PM
[Mark - see my answer at the end to your retro - and since you obviously have never read here before pretty off-the-mark - comment posted at the bottom]
Give me a break. Let's talk about what is really immoral... denying care - even to kids - because people cannot afford it... is that moral? Marketing drugs directly to customers, making sure they get dependent on them and therefore ensuring a continuous stream of revenues for pharma companies, or inventing bull diseases like fibromyalgia only to sell other unnecessary drugs. Inducing millions of young americans to "shop till they drop" and to sign up for credit cards, creating the largest per-capita personal debt in developed countries. Marketing chemicals-laden junk food to kids. It's funny.. moms don't want kids to see the A&F ads but then feed them colored cool aids, hot dogs and sugary or fatty snacks. Way to go ladies!
If kids see a beautiful body, man or woman, i don't see anything wrong with it. It's a human body, plain and simple, it's nature. They may want to take care of themselves when they grow up, living a healthy lifestyle and have that body, instead of gobbling down junk food and become obese at the age of 10 and frustrated for the rest of their lives.
Let's focus on the real issues we have in the American society, and use some common sense. And please do no use your supposedly high moral standards to discount different opinions. Very sad.
To Mark from Barbara:
Where to begin? Your reaction to this blog entry makes so many false assumptions about the author and readership here.
With a little effort - sparked by healthy curiosity rather than a desire to stereotype anyone with whom you disagree - you might have read enough to see that the moms here are pretty much in accord against any commercial exploitation of their children - whether selling junk food or junk ideas about human sexuality.
We want our children to be healthy in every way - physically, emotionally and spiritually. If you think "sexual liberation" is healthy, why not look at the aging Baby Boomer population to see the results of this self-centered thinking: soaring divorce rates, neglected children (now trying to learn to raise children of thier own), rampant STDs.
Even if your thinking were correct about what consititutes healthy sexuality, I would object to the Merchants of Cool - as documented so well by PBS (see http://mommylife.net/archives/2005/09/consumer_proof_your_teens.html) - making consumers out of my children through selling sex.
Posted by: Mark - USA | August 14, 2008 2:18 AM
