Comments on: Ay-yi-yi Redux

By: Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 03:55:23 +0000

sunny in texas,

I wish you were my mom when *I* was a teenager! I hate to wait until I was in University to bust out the 80’s industrial-wear and mohawk without my parents losing their minds! Heh.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 02:59:19 +0000

I think a lot of times the parents AND kids are clueless about the innuendo that these companies are selling to little girls. A couple of months ago I was grocery shopping and a mother and daughter caught my eye because the daughter reminded me of me at about 14 -taller than all the boys, jockish, and sweet-faced. The mom was college-professory looking, and the daughter had on baggy track pants and a t-shirt. Emblazoned on the tee – “I (heart) bareback.” I couldn’t shake the feeling that the girl and her mom were merely horseback riding enthusiasts and very, very clueless.

By: sparklegirl

sparklegirl — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 02:42:45 +0000

I didn’t recognize it either–I’ve never heard anyone use the word “pink” that way. And I usually have a dirty enough mind that I can see innuendo in anything. Maybe it’s an older usage?

By: Auguste

Auguste — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:57:39 +0000

What does it mean that I recognized and got annoyed the “look-at-this” aspect of writing on the butt, of course, but not that “Pink” itself represented a double entendre? Do I just not read Hustler often enough? Do I not fetishize genitals enough?

(My wife, 30, received a “Pink” set from Victoria’s Secret for Xmas, and Pink is written across the chest of the baggy sweatshirt…maybe that’s why it didn’t jump out at me…)

By: d.e.i.x.i.s.

d.e.i.x.i.s. — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:24:50 +0000

Pink? It’s been going on for Y.E.A.R.S. As if it helps any, they’re actually targeted toward the college girl demographic. Which means, uh, me. They’re everywhere. There’s actually even an official Victoria’s Secret PINK group on facebook, where they give you doggie stationery & free pink dogs if you buy stuff.

I think we should be more revolted by JUICY. Especially when emblazoned across the ass. I remember this girl who would wear JUICY jewellery at age 12. I explained to her one day what it meant & she was all EW– EWW– EWWW!!!11one

But she kept on wearing it.

By: curiousgyrl

curiousgyrl — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:22:48 +0000

um–l.c. gillies–um

everyone is pink on the inside.

By: LCGillies

LCGillies — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 19:47:27 +0000

I have to agree with Sunny in Texas, though my now college-age-daughter wouldn’t have worn one of these in a million years, at any age. Certainly full goth regalia is far preferable. Interesting—I don’t quite know how of “read” it—that the model is black (not pink, at least not mainly pink). Its much better to let your girl child run around looking like an urchin than like a sexbot.

By: tisha

tisha — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:38:21 +0000

My daughter turns 14 this year and our wardrobe fights are already legion. Abercrombie, and now this. Goddess help me.

By: wabewawa

wabewawa — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:08:48 +0000

The innuendo takes this to new heights (or depths, eh), but several years ago when my daughter was a preteen, her favorite clothing company at the time, Limited Too, was really trying to sell a lot of these kinds of sweatpants, with words like Cheer, Soccer, and Dance boldly emblazoned across the heinie (but as hard it was to find any pants left in the actual store that didn’t have rear-end embellishment, I’m thinking maybe they missed the mark with how well they thought those would go over then). They gave me the icks immediately … as if young girls don’t already have enough creeps ogling their behinds as it is.

Actually, much of Limited Too’s clothing catalog gave me that same feeling, especially considering where the photographers’ focal points often seemed to be (the current website gives no sense at all of what the catalog is — or was, anyway — like). I had a disturbing sense that those catalogs may well have actually had an underground following among a certain group of men who probably weren’t all that interested in buying clothes for their prepubescent female loved ones, shall we say. Similar to the well-known secondary (heck, primary?) purpose the Victoria’s Secret catalog serves too.

(~this site worst viewed with IE in 800 x 600 resolution, unfortunately for me, pout)

By: Nia

Nia — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:56:51 +0000

As far as I know, the Victoria Secret Pink line is quite old, it’s just the name they give to the colourful cotton line without frills or “sexiness”. As much as I hate the brand’s marketing, the Pink line is normally pretty harmless -polkadots, stripes, that sort of thing.