Girls T-Shirts
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I missed Abercrombie and Fitch’s latest outraging of America’s sensibilities. The offending t-shirts reflected typical teenage values: superficiality and selfishness. But slogans on clothing will neither diminish nor encourage those qualities. Either time will do it or nothing will.
So. Sex. Teenagers. The newest dustup involves yet more A&F T-shirts (so little material, so much fuss!). These are for girls, and bear such pithy slogans as “Who needs brains when you have these?” and “Do I Make You Look Fat?” and “Blondes are adored, brunettes are ignored” emblazoned across the breast/chest area.
Sex. Teenagers. Cotton Products.
A dowdy note celebrating the clothier’s withdrawal of some of the t-shirts.
But as the Abercrombie episode shows, it was feminists who were standing up for traditionalist values, or, if you prefer, it was traditionalists standing up for feminist values. It doesn’t matter which way you shape the sentence, which is an astonishing lesson, even to the fellow who just typed it.
A bit too self-congratulatory. A&F sales are up. The episode didn’t cost them a penny but gave them plenty of free PR. As it was with books “banned in Boston.”
One advantage of being lower on the prudish radar system is that Bratz will sometimes mentioned passes goes largely left alone by pests.
The worst thing about Bratz is not their motto, ”A passion for fashion”; not their ”Flaunt it or forget it” advice (”Rockers would never wear pastels, butterflies, Capri pants, flower prints, glow necklaces, or mesh Chinese slippers”); not what they tell kids leaving their website: ”Above all be beautiful”; not their name, which is obnoxious and misspelled. But that they are everywhere. And that they are being marketed to children ages 6 and up.
Pop culture robbing girls of childhood