Comments on: Who Needs Abercrombie When You Have Brains?

By: julia

julia — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

A&F t-shirts are a major point of contention between my daughter and I. Now that she works and has her own money, it is hard to control what she buys.

But I do the laundry. Funny thing. T-shirts that I find offensive get ruined in the laundry, pretty much on a regular basis.

By: robin

robin — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

This t-shirt makes me very sad. That some girls just find it “funny” makes me sadder.
The term “Stockholm Syndrome” is not nearly enough to describe the depth of this pathetic self-abasement.
Bravo to the Pennsylvania high school students who are raising their voices.

By: norbizness

norbizness — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Can I get an “I Blew The Chemistry Teacher for An ‘A’” in sea foam, XXL?

By: kate.d.

kate.d. — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

ugh.

i had a good friend who worked at abercrombie in college – she was incredibly smart and creative and insightful, so i have no idea how she survived 20 minutes there without her head exploding.

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I made the mistake of reading the comments on the Tribune link. A lot of them were “if you don’t like it, don’t buy it”. They just don’t get that the problem isn’t selling them, it’s creating them. That the idea was so great they became a reality.

Saddest yet is that there was a time that I would have found them funny myself. I’m happy that my eyes are now open and that all of you help keep them that way.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

What’s weird is that the marketing goons continue to insist that only a few old fuddy-duddies would find the shirts offensive, when the girlcott is being led by a 16 year old girl and her highschool compatriots.

By: yankee transplant

yankee transplant — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Good for those girls. I, too, have refused to spend a dime on my girls’ clothes at A&F, and now my 17-year old sees that I may have been right. Maybe. Once.

By: res publica

res publica — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah, that’s “funny”. Funny like a rusty nail in my foot. Stuff like this makes me want to cry.

Abercrombie’s marketing machine is pretty squarely focused on teenagers, so how is it that the only people who ever raise a stink about their exploitative and degrading bullshit, their fascist aesthetics, their homoerotic homophobia, their raunchy misogyny, etc., are feminist women? Where’s the sex-panic crowd? Where are the Outraged And Concerned Christian Parents of America or whatever? Feminists are right to loath A&F, and gay men should be picketing A&F stores instead of pouring cash into them. But so should every parent who loves their kids and wants them to have a chance to be more than a peice of meat for some beer-bloated frat asshole.

By: PrissyNot

PrissyNot — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

“The Outraged and Concerned Christian Parents of America” are only outraged and concerned if whatever crosses the paths of their eternally upturned noses DOESN’T support the patriarchy’s view of what is or is not appropriate for the sex class. Of course these T-shirts ARE appropriate for the sex class, so “Christians” don’t care. In fact, these types actively support the idea that the American sex class should be demure, subservient and accessible, while at the same time calling attention to such availability and self-abasement. I have to go puke now.

By: wordgirl

wordgirl — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

These are the same females who now wear teeny, tiny cheerleading shorts with the word “Cheer” across their ass cheeks…little more than an open invitation to feast ones eyes.
But–ironically- they’ll exhibit righteous indignation when, 20 years from now, a guy in the office won’t take them seriously and can’t stop drooling over every passing female butt.

Connect the dots, ladies!