Wal-Mart yanks teen girls panties.

[ohiosmith]

Suggestive pink Santa panties targeting young girls are being removed from Wal-Mart stores after parents objected to the offensive undergarments.

The panties, which were sold in the juniors department, seemed to suggest that girls don't need money, they just need a sugar daddy — in this case Santa Claus.

The hipster briefs — carrying the slogan "Who needs credit cards ..." on the front and "When you have Santa" on the derriere — caused an uproar among parents, who called for the $2.96 drawers to be pulled off the racks.

"We have directed our stores to remove this merchandise from our shelves," Linda Brown Blakely, a spokeswoman for Wal-Mart, told FOXNews.com Wednesday

more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316580,00.html

[Tyler Durden]

1. Riiiight.

Like the t-shirts there that say "Future Porn Star."

Or the sweat pants with "HOT!" on the ass.

[Solon]

2. Were they wearing them at the time?

Wal-Mart is run by pevs! :o

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. I was also just basking in the glow of the wording of the OP...

Author! Author!

[SallyMander]

3. It would be worse if the back said

"when you have a vagina"


:hide:

[unpossibles]

9. actually, that's what I assumed it meant, no text on the back really necessary

not saying it's right, just that's how I read the design.

[SallyMander]

10. Me too!

Until i finished reading the OP... dirty mind...

[Bucky]

32. I don't think there's ever a problem in marketing with "dumbing it down"

You just can't go too far when it comes to being blatant and direct. Subtlety is for smarties. And they don't buy shit.

[unpossibles]

37. an old boss of mine once said it well

"you can't aim low enough"

[NewJeffCT]

12. A few months back, I saw a high school girl...

A rather busty young girl in a tight t-shirt that read, "These are my access passes" plastered right across her boobs.

I did a double-take to make sure I read it correctly, then just shook my head.

And, I knew she was in high school because she was among several other high schoolers at the time.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

15. Have you considered...

firing off an angry letter to your local newspaper editor?

[NewJeffCT]

30. no

I wouldn't do that. It was her decision to buy the shirt - I just don't think it's all that appropriate.

[Capn Sunshine]

21. I had a friend who worked with me whose nickname was "tickets"

For that very reason. She used her tickets all thetime. This was the 70's back when we didn't know wrong from right, unlike the 21st century. :headbang:

[NewJeffCT]

51. If it's an adult

I don't really have a big problem with it. I just don't think it's something a middle-schooler or even high schooler should be doing.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. Next up, no more boxers with chili peppers on them...

Womens underwear may only be purchased by going into a back room, with a chaperone, and only the color white will be available.

[Pierre.Suave]

6. I would not be surprised one bit

sadly...

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. Now off to Hot Topic, to complain about naughty T-shirts...

Puritan Man- Awaaaaaay!

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. Your fears are about to be confirmed... Behold the Wal Mart 2008 Lady's Undergarment:

[Pierre.Suave]

34. hahaha

so true...

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. Fucking morons. Fucking interfering, time-wasting, prudish piss-drinking fuckbags.

Fuck you, you fucking useless wastes of human flesh.

If you're offended by something, then don't goddamned look at it. Don't fucking buy it.

Jesus. Telling a store that they can't carry something because you find it offensive - what a load of fucking shit.

Busybody useless assholes.

And like we, the intelligent people, should even care what offends the tastes of someone who shops at WalMart. They probably wouldn't have been offended if Santa hadn't been named on the back, and only the wording on the front were left.

I'm really angry now. Shit like this drives me over the edge.


(but let me also add that, yes, I think the panties are in bad taste, and any parent who WOULD buy their daughter one of them needs to have their head examined and IS likely to be kind of person to shop at WalMart to begin with).

[Bucky]

14. Guess we'll have to agree to disagree

I think it's a shitty message to foist onto teens--you don't need to build a good credit rating if you're willing to fuck for money. That's simply not an appropriate topic for humor marketed at kids.

And I don't buy the argument, as you so eloquently put it, "If you're offended by something, then don't goddamned look at it. Don't fucking buy it." This only works if you think human beings only grow up in complete isolation from each other. The reality is that cultural messages diffuse, ideas about what is acceptable language and acceptable behavior is mostly shaped by peer relationships. You can't piss in the pond and then tell me I can protect my family from offensive content by just staying out of your way.

There's a moral component to the Tragedy of the Commons.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

18. This diffusion needs to be nipped in the bud.

I suggest burqas.



They're like big fashion condoms.

[Bucky]

22. Thank you for pointing out that the only alternative to teen prostitution is burkhas

I'd momentarily forgotten we live in a manichean universe with no room for moderation.

[tigereye]

25. nicely said Bucky!

:thumbsup:


Some young teen/ women (forget the name of the organization) here got a clothing company to get rid of all their hyper sexist ts aimed at young women. It was cool.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

33. Teen prostitution?

I thought we were talking about naughty underwear.

[Rabrrrrrr]

40. No no no. We're talking about reading posts eisegetically.

It makes self-righteousness all that much easier, though at the cost of being very embarrassingly visibly ignorant.

I thought your burka post was a brilliant response. :thumbsup:

[krispos42]

54. Ankles and toe cleavage

**HAWT***

[Rabrrrrrr]

38. Apparently you missed my parenthetical.

Always a good idea to read an entire post, and get the entire story, instead of reacting to just one sentence out of context.

[Sequoia]

23. I won't let my kid wear offensive t-shirts

We were in the Hot Topic store and she wanted to buy a t-shirt (not really offensive) that said "Boys Like Girls" and I said no way. Later she got on the phone to her friends and told them all about it. Well, the laugh was on me because low and behold it's a name of a band. I guess she'll be telling that one for years!

[Bucky]

28. Well, you know what that makes you, then...

Apparently you're a "Fucking interfering, time-wasting, prudish piss-drinking fuckbag." I'll bet you didn't know that.

Frankly, I'm surprised you're not out shoving all the gypsies and mongrels into gas chambers at this point. Or something. ;)

[Sequoia]

36. Oh Bucky, bless your heart!

I had no idea I was all those things. Actually I'm getting ready to shove a little boy into the stove I fattened up in a cage so I can roast him. Yum, I live boys...Girls Like Boys! Why, you ask? The little tyke was eating my house made of gingerbread. And as for his sister...well...I haven't quite made up my mind...she's sweeps the house really good though.

OH...and Merry Christmas!

[Rabrrrrrr]

39. And again, you have, perhaps, decided not to actually read my post,

or you would know that I do not think that.

[Bucky]

46. Or maybe the subtle wit of "Fucking interfering, prudish piss-drinking fuckbags" eludes me.

People who use hysterical overstatement should expect to be misunderstood.

[Rabrrrrrr]

53. Perhaps if you tried to understand what I am, specifically, railing against,

you would ... well, understand.

Up to you, though. If you don't feel that taking time to actually read someone's entire post is important in the world of communication, then that's your choice. I think it's a bad choice, but it's entirely up to you.

[BreweryYardRat]

41. What the hell's offensive about that?

The only people I could see it offending are really uptight gay guys -- and even then it seems unlikely.

[Deja Q]

13. In 1972, "Are You Being Served?" did a satire on the concept.

Little did anybody know, some 35 years later, THE REAL THING WOULD HAPPEN.

BTW: Wouldn't freedom mandate if the individual walmart manager wanted to keep the hussy drawers for sale, they'd do so anyway?

[skygazer]

16. There is no freedom in corporate retail

An individual chainstore manager has less autonomy than a paperboy (or girl). Edicts come down from Corporate HQ and you ignore them at the risk of your job.

[SPKrazy]

17. Who is the Wal-Mart You Speak Of

and why is he/she yanking teen's panties?

:shrug:

[ohiosmith]

19. Pay attention will you?

[Redstone]

20. Those are really tacky. God, I'm glad I don't have any daughters.

Redstone

[LeftyMom]

24. Seconded.

A friend of mine has two stepdaughters, and trying to buy them clothes that cover anything, don't have sexualized slogans on them, etc is damn near impossible. WalMart is the worst offender, though Penneys is also very bad (hip huggers and thongs for toddlers. Swear to god.) Target has some acceptable stuff that's cute but still tasteful.

[Redstone]

26. I remember someone posting about the "thongs for toddlers" thing here on DU.

I'm not exactly a prude, but Christ, there have to be limits on bad taste and tackiness.

Redstone

[Manifestor_of_Light]

27. Baby clothes are very sexist.

When my daughter was a baby, I looked at two toddler sized jogging suits.

The pink one said "Future Cheerleader".

The blue one said "Little Genius".

You can guess which one I bought and which one she wore -- the blue one.

[Blue-Jay]

29. That's a helluva headline.

[JoePhilly]

31. The headline should be "Wal-Mart removes young girl's panties"

Then Fox News would have some video to go with the story.

[Nailzberg]

35. Who knew WalMart and I had so much in common?

:spank:

[reyd reid reed]

42. I saw them at the store and, for what it's worth,

I didn't find them at all offensive. And if I did, I'd have just left them on the shelf. The loudest voice of all is the one that keeps its money it its pocket.

[gmoney]

48. Does this mean you bought them?

Since you didn't find them offensive, and would have left them on the shelf if you had, that suggests you did NOT leave them on the shelf and are probably wearing them RIGHT NOW!

[JVS]

43. yanks panties!

:rofl:

[Sugar Smack]

49. Walmart wedgies its customers!

:patriot:

[JVS]

50. always

;-)

[blitzen]

44. FOXNEWS....All Panties, All the Time....except when it's O'Lielly

talking about nude teens

[Connonym]

45. Oh sheesh, I have panties that say "I've been naughty" on them

I wouldn't buy them for my kid but I sure as hell wouldn't try to tell a store they couldn't sell them. Juniors size clothing is also worn by a lot of adult women so it's not like they're specifically targeting this item to 10 year olds or something.

[The2ndWheel]

47. The question of "who needs credit cards", is technically a good one

See, you have to use the corporate advertising against itself. Then you'd just end up buying more of these as they put more question on them.

"Why is a corporation a legal person?"

Then on the derriere, "Because it owns your ass".

"Why do we need wind farms?"

On the back..."Because there is a crack in this model".

[SacredCow]

52. An uproar over THAT????

:eyes: