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Abercrombie T-Shirts Promote Male Sluttage
BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#150abercrombie t-shirts promote male sluttage
Posted: 1/5/07 at 12:29am
As someone who came from a town of misguided, neglected rich kids, far FAR, FAR (was that enough) too many.
And you speak as if everyone around you means what they say. As if they'd openly admit to giving into "peer pressure" or some silly myth placed in the back of their mind by the media. So much of it filters into our brains, most people aren't aware of the seed that's planted.
Updated On: 1/5/07 at 12:29 AM
#151abercrombie t-shirts promote male sluttage
Posted: 1/5/07 at 12:30am
Im sorry but im sick of ugly girls bitching about how horrible and demeaning A&F is just cause they're angry that they cant fit their big asses into a pair of skinny jeans. Someone had to say it...
To each his own, let people dress as they want just as people give you the same right. Are there not many more pressing issues in this world than a shirt?
BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#152abercrombie t-shirts promote male sluttage
Posted: 1/5/07 at 12:33am
"Im sorry but im sick of ugly girls bitching about how horrible and demeaning A&F is just cause they're angry that they cant fit their big asses into a pair of skinny jeans. Someone had to say it..."
Well, I certainly hope you weren't referring to me. Because I'm neither ugly nor fat, and I'm sure I can fit into the smallest sizes at A&F (not that I'd be caught dead shopping there), I promise you, and I still think it's demeaning. So explain that one to me.
Perhaps your shallowness is threatened by a little dignity?
Updated On: 1/5/07 at 12:33 AM
#153abercrombie t-shirts promote male sluttage
Posted: 1/5/07 at 12:38am
Or perhaps people take their own insecurities out on something like an Abercrombie shirt just cause they dont have inner peace with themselves. Theres a thought.
And honey, theres 7 pages of posts, dont flatter yourself.
BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#154abercrombie t-shirts promote male sluttage
Posted: 1/5/07 at 12:42am
I don't know what to tell you; you're delusional if you think the people who find something like this demeaning find it so because THEY don't have inner peace. It's the people who buy it who don't have inner peace.
Flattering myself? Your post came immediately after mine, which happened to be VERY much against these shirts, and you posted without quoting anyone. And I simply made counterpoints to your shallow comment.
Updated On: 1/5/07 at 12:42 AM
#155abercrombie t-shirts promote male sluttage
Posted: 1/5/07 at 12:50am
As a matter of fact, I enjoy a very close relationship with my friends, and when they're not being honest with me I can tell right away. And I also know they would not lie about something as trivial as this subject.
You talk about "misguided, neglected rich kids" and I think that's the real issue. Don't blame the ads, blame the parents.
BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#156abercrombie t-shirts promote male sluttage
Posted: 1/5/07 at 12:54am
"As a matter of fact, I enjoy a very close relationship with my friends, and when they're not being honest with me I can tell right away. And I also know they would not lie about something as trivial as this subject."
You're missing my point. Half the time, the things in our culture filter into our brains in a way most people don't even realize themselves.
As for what you said about parents...advertisers and clothing companies should have no responsibility at all? Parents are a HUGE problem, but when these kids are being fed so much crap, only so much can be done. You can't point the finger in one direction.
Updated On: 1/5/07 at 12:54 AM
#157abercrombie t-shirts promote male sluttage
Posted: 1/5/07 at 1:00amI'm going to repeat something I said earlier: You always have the option of not buying the damn shirts. And yes, it really is that simple.
BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#158abercrombie t-shirts promote male sluttage
Posted: 1/5/07 at 1:03am
Oh, come ON. It's not that simple. Of course I'm not going to buy the shirt, and of course I can't stop people from buying them, but that doesn't make it any less irresponsible on A&F's part. And part of the problem is that they probably DON'T realize, like many on this board, what the effects are, so they make them anyway without realizing they're contributing to a problem.
Updated On: 1/5/07 at 01:03 AM
#159abercrombie t-shirts promote male sluttage
Posted: 1/5/07 at 1:07amI have to agree with other posters; it's completely hypocritical for someone wearing a spaghetti string, cleavage-exposing dress in their avatar to lecture about Abercrombie selling "risque and demeaning attire."
Wanting life but never knowing how
#160abercrombie t-shirts promote male sluttage
Posted: 1/5/07 at 1:17amWell, everyone gets kind of slutty for formal dances.
#161abercrombie t-shirts promote male sluttage
Posted: 1/5/07 at 1:22am
Oh, thank you so very much for opening my eyes to the dreadful injustices I've been perpetrating by not supporting or shopping at a store that I don't like. How could I have been so callous all these years??
Seriously, are you really getting this worked up over a damn shirt? Aren't there more important things to devote your time and efforts to? The hard truth of the matter is, there is ALWAYS going to be some product or ad campaign or whatever that will offend somebody somewhere. Boycotting doesn't do squat. All you have control over is the way you let it affect you personally.
#162abercrombie t-shirts promote male sluttage
Posted: 1/5/07 at 1:22amblasted double post!
#163abercrombie t-shirts promote male sluttage
Posted: 1/5/07 at 1:28am
I disagree, Rose.
Boycotting can do a lot. Not just with these t-shirts, but in any case. It can at least get the message out there, and that does a hell of a lot more than just not buying something.
Also, it's not just about these 3 shirts, but the huge advertising campaign by companies like A&F. These few articles of clothing may not matter, but over time the little stuff ads up.
BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#164abercrombie t-shirts promote male sluttage
Posted: 1/5/07 at 1:29am
"Oh, thank you so very much for opening my eyes to the dreadful injustices I've been perpetrating by not supporting or shopping at a store that I don't like."
That...doesn't even make sense, especially not in response to my post.
If you do decide to read my post though, all I was saying, essentially, is that I wish people THOUGHT more before they put something out there of this nature.
" Boycotting doesn't do squat."
Wait...where'd that come from? You suggested that I don't buy the shirt, which I said I'd do, and I added that I can't stop other people from buying it. You're a tad contradictory. And you're twisting my words, as I said nothing about starting some sort of boycott.
Updated On: 1/5/07 at 01:29 AM
#165abercrombie t-shirts promote male sluttage
Posted: 1/5/07 at 1:42am
More often than not, boycotts don't work. Anyone remember National Buy Nothing Day?
Companies do realize; they would just rather make money. I'm not saying that's commendable or even respectable, but it's the hard reality of it. There are far more important things for me to get my panties in a wad about than what some company is putting on their shirts.
Also: I think now you're twisting my words. When I said that you don't have to buy something you don't like, I wasn't trying to tell you what to do. Surely you realized that? And how is what I said contradictory?
BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#166abercrombie t-shirts promote male sluttage
Posted: 1/5/07 at 1:50am
"There are far more important things for me to get my panties in a wad about than what some company is putting on their shirts."
...Like getting your panties in a wad over how I think such things can (and do) snowball?
And, uh, you said: "You always have the option of not buying the damn shirts." Well, first of all, offering that up as a solution makes it sound as though not buying would have some sort of effect. But maybe I'm misreading.
And I didn't take it as a suggestion as to what I should do; I wouldn't buy the shirt anyway, which I said. What's confusing and kind of contradictory to me is how ou brought up boycotts when I hadn't mentioned it, but you seemed to suggest not buying it as some sort of a solution. But, now that I'm re-reading, perhaps I just interpreted that wrong.
#167abercrombie t-shirts promote male sluttage
Posted: 1/5/07 at 2:02am
Boycotting was mentioned earlier, and it popped up in my head while I was typing.
What I'm getting at is, in the long run, taking mass action against a business doesn't have much of an effect on their sales. You can take pride in knowing that you aren't contributing to their numbers, and I think that that's the best course of action. It's like I said earlier: All you really have control over is yourself.
C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#168abercrombie t-shirts promote male sluttage
Posted: 1/5/07 at 2:12am
I hate those types of shirts and stores that won't sell an article of clothing unless their brand is emblazoned all over the place. It makes it more of a conscious realization that you just paid to be a walking advertisement for them and paid for that logo to wear to look cool or something.
Add on top of that that you can't walk into the store without going deaf from that wretched music played at maximum volume, makes for an unhappy shopping experience nowadays 
#169abercrombie t-shirts promote male sluttage
Posted: 1/5/07 at 2:13am
Rose,
You DO bring up a good point. It is important to keep in mind that all you truly have control of is yourself. Sometimes I can get so wrapped up in wanting to "save the world" that I forget that I just can't.
However, a group of people can be a powerful force, especially if the group gets the media involved. There have been many instances where this has brought about actually policy change in major companies.
#170abercrombie t-shirts promote male sluttage
Posted: 1/5/07 at 2:40amThere are much bigger policy problems to change in major companies than t-shirts with provocative phrases, and much bigger problems in the world that groups should be targetting their efforts on. Last I checked, war and famine were still present.
Wanting life but never knowing how
#171abercrombie t-shirts promote male sluttage
Posted: 1/5/07 at 7:49am
It was only a matter of time until someone brought up the dress I'm wearing in this picture.
Yes, I'm going to wear something spaghetti-strap. It's the middle of summer. They don't really sell long-sleeved prom dresses nowadays. And this dress I actually pinned to show less cleavage--it was worse when I bought it and that was NOT the message I was trying to send. In any case, I'm surprised it even took seven pages for someone to mention it.
Yes, T-shirts are a fairly minor issue. But when you're a teenage girl working for other teenage girls there's only so many things you can attack. Originally we had planned to do a Girlcottt against all of the message tees (ones that they sold at Hot Topic, Wet Seal, etc.) but our cordinator thought that that would be too big of a project for us to handle. Besides, targetting this company got the message out there. At least it got people thinking, and that is the reall goal after all.
BroadwayGirl brings up a good point. There are a lot of people, not so much the people on this board (as we tend to be a bit more cultured and out of the mainstream) that this kind of advertising affects. Especially teenage girls, who are very susceptible to trends.
#172abercrombie t-shirts promote male sluttage
Posted: 1/5/07 at 8:01am
Fad t-shirts don't bother me in the least -- they'll be gone when y'all get bored with them. You're wearing things, eg. low rise jeans (hip huggers) and big wide belts that I wore in the 70's. Your children will wear them in 2025. The trend that bothers me more are tattoo's -- on men and women. They don't go away easily.
Updated On: 1/5/07 at 08:01 AM
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#173abercrombie t-shirts promote male sluttage
Posted: 1/5/07 at 9:35amBut they're awesome and you're uncool if you don't think so.
#174abercrombie t-shirts promote male sluttage
Posted: 1/5/07 at 9:43amyep, I'm uncool and still a male slut.
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