Abercrombie and Fitch: Tshirts Degrading to Women

[Darion]

It is much easier said than done when you are a parent. Sure I could ground them, not let them buy or wear the clothes. BUT.. Sally down the streets mother doesn't give a shit so she is wearing this Cheap Whore t-shirt, which sends a message to all the kids in her school that it is acceptable and "cool."

I do not accept this -at all-, and it all folds back onto parental laziness. This implies that parents are totally unwilling to restrict their children. If your mother tells you "You can't wear that, it makes you look trashy" enough, you will soon associate whatever 'that' is with trashy. So let the girls who want to look like a pack of whores look like a pack of whores, and let the rest of them get on with their lives.

Ok your Baby Gap example is lame, you know exactly what I mean about Targeting them. WHY on earth would you market a t-shirt for a 12 year old that says... "Who needs brains when you have these?" across her chest!

Your sensationalist nonsense is lame. "OMGOMGOMG they're targetting kids!" is a line typically reserved for the tobacco industry, who sells a product that is physically addictive and will kill you. Any store that sells children's-sized clothes targets children, regardless of the message they bear. I am always surprised and disgusted to find out how fast everyone is to blame "The Industry" (whatever the industry may be) for corrupting the youth of America. No matter how offensive the clothes, it is impossible for it to be the fault of the clothes that someone's children are a mess.

If the parents did not -buy- (or allow the kids to buy) the clothes, we would not even be talking about this. All other arguments fall by the wayside. The bottom line is that parents are getting more and more lazy as time goes by, and their kids are running wild. This is just something else to blame so that it's not their fault.