by LauraLoo
How is Abercrombie allowed to sell this merchandise and exploit children without criminal consequences?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUN5qNM7jmg[/youtube]
Email LauraLoo with your Lunch Break suggestions.
[HT: Abercrombie]
Violations will be deleted and you may be banned.
Threats will be immediately reported to authorities.
Following these rules will make everyone's experience visiting JillStanek.com better.
Our volunteer moderators make prudent judgment calls to provide an open forum to discuss these issues. They reserve the right to remove any comment for any reason. Jill's decisions on such moderations are final.
Go to gravatar.com to create your avatar.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
It could be worse.
Abercrombie could be marketing ‘push up bikinis’ for girls as old as 80.
Joan Rivers could be their poster girl.
“As young as 8.” Good grief….
Arnold made the maid.
But don’t worry, there are only three days until the Rapture. This old boy has called it:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2011-03-23-prophet_22_ST_N.htm
However, I think he’s called for it at least once in the past, in the 1990’s.
A poll conducted last year by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found that 41% of Americans expect Jesus’ return before 2040
Is there something in the water?
This sort of thing is one of the consequences of the ideas of the deranged pervert pedophile Alfred Kinsey that have been largely accepted by many in the boomer generation that came of age in the 60’s and that unfortunately continue to have much influence, even though Kinsey has been revealed as the fraud and freak (and criminal and moral reprobate) that he was. Even babies–according to him–have desires for sexual pleasure. There is no age limit in Kinsey’s perverted view to when children begin to have explicit sexual desires and thoughts. This should be encouraged as “healthy” and natural (according to this sick view).
Push-up bikinis for 8 year olds follow right in line with this sort of thinking.
It also follows right in line with the absurdly misguided radical feminist view that women gain some sort of ownership and power over sexuality by deliberately flaunting their sexuality. This view sees human sexuality as a battleground for control and power between the sexes, and at least some radical feminists want women to win this battle (and men to lose). I think they actually believe that part of the strategy for “winning” this battle is to encourage younger and younger girls to adopt behaviors that fall in line with this idea–that it is good to reduce inhibitions to behave in openly sexually provocative ways so that as they become sexually mature, they will already “possess” their sexuality or something like that.
I have no idea if Abercrombie as a company has any such notions. Perhaps not. They may only be reacting to what they perceive as a growing trend and their only interest may be cashing in on such trends.
But whatever the reasons, no doubt, such changes in clothing for girls manifest an increasingly lost culture–a culture that is moving ever more away from the beautiful Christian understanding of human sexuality and toward an increasingly empty, shallow, animalistic one.
Why don’t parents refuse to buy this sort of stuff? Are 8 year-olds buying this on their own?
We regard child molestation as a most horrible crime. But isn’t the entire culture guilty of a form of child molestation when it sexualized pre-pubescent children?
Totally agree, Denise. Yes. It’s so schizophrenic.
Those bikinis are inappropriate for kids.
Companies are going to try to make money in every conceivable way. I have to wonder about the parents that buy these for their kids. As a parent you are the last line of defense of your children. My daughter had to wear a one-piece bathing suit until she was 15 and I finally caved, but even then it couldn’t be a string anything. Her first two-piece was a more of an athletic looking suit. Like a sports bra and work out shorts type of thing… She is almost 17 now and I pretty much let her wear what she wants but because how we raised her she has no interest in wearing anything like these 8yo suits even at her age.
They couldn’t sell this crap if parents weren’t buying and putting it on their children.
That’s the real story.
Yea I agree Gerard. That was the point I was making. It falls on the parents.
I wonder, though…. If 8 year olds are getting botox shots, is a padded bikini all that bad?
Good grief, Biggz.
I loved your comment and totally agree!! One piece for my girly.
One pieces? modest? not really. only modest suits for my girls! do I care if they stand out? NO!
http://www.modest-swimwear.net/
I will not purchase anything from Abercrombie again. My adult children, and their adult friends,
and Mothers, agree to boycott Abercrombie. Even my college age daughter is disgusted with the marketing of these adult bikinis for young girls.
Abercrombie is without principal. If whatever it is enhances bottom line, go for it!
Pam – Abercrombie would not make them if there was not a market for them. Like I said this one falls on parents. There would have never been any such thing as a pet rock had there not been people willing to buy them…
Wow! I can’t believe it but I totally agree with you Biggz. If parents don’t buy it there will no market for it. If they don’t make a profit they will drop the product. Love your kids enough to protect them and guard them against hurtful influences. A 8 year old should not be dressed to be a sexy “hottie”, neither should teens for that matter. I am always saying to teens “you will protect what you value, if you value your body, your health, your sex, your future, and your future marriage you will protect it, cherish it and put boundaries around it” That goes for parents who truly love their children they will protect their kids because they value them. The most precious people in my life (beside my husband) are my children. I am glad to hear Biggz that you have protected your daughter and she sounds like she is growing up to value herself.
I can’t take all the credit she has an amazing mother as did I. She is going to be an awesome engineer. We are looking MIT & Cal-tech with Oberlin as a safety school. If anyone has any advice on that subject I would be glad to hear it.
I got upset when my daughter was still in grade school because we were walking through the toy dept and she was looking at Polly Pocket Sets and next to them was the Bratz display. Up until that point I had always thought and I still do to a point that people were over reacting to some of the new Barbie dolls coming out but this was a whole other bucket of slime. I never had to tell my girl she couldn’t have a Bratz doll because she had no interest in it, she said “that cartoon wasn’t very good”. lol
I will tell you one more thing that I thought of on the spur of the moment that worked great for my daughter, nieces, and their friends. I heard the girls playing Barbies in her room as I was walking by to check on them. I heard my daughter and my niece getting the dolls ready “hair make-up, clothes” for their first date with two other dolls. I knocked on the door and asked “what ya doing?” they told me and I said “those two can’t go out on a date.” They asked me why and I said “because I have not met the guys that want to take Barbie and her friend out on a date. It is not right for a guy to take a girl out on a date without meeting her parents and asking if it’s ok to date their daughter.” So, to make a long story short… I spent the next 3 years or so meeting and approving all of Barbie’s boyfriends. lol
I truly love being a parent.