Abercrombie & Fitch Say Sexualization of Children is “Cute and Fun and Sweet”
Clothing-makers Abercrombie & Fitch are once again in the news for paedophile-chic clothing lines. This time it’s thongs for seven year old girls, imprinted with such cute and fun and sweet
slogans as eye candy
, sexy
, and wink wink
.
A&F apparently thinks that it is cute
to portray little girls as eroticized future sex objects. However, this is pretty obviously a lie; as usual, they are trying to attract attention to their stupid clothing line by being edgy
. The thing that people don’t seem to get is that this kind of shit isn’t even remotely edgy
. It’s the same old cultural detritus, repackaged. The quasi-child porn thing was already old when Calvin Klein did it; it was even older when Britney Spears did it; and it’s older than dirt by now. It’s not only not cute
, it’s not edgy
, either. It’s just also-ran, offensive and stupid.
Take action!
Write a complaint to Abercrombie & Fitch asking them why they think that portraying children as sex objects is cute and fun and sweet
, and ask them to pull the line from stores. Public outcry has already forced them to remove their racist caricatures of Asians from stores, and now it’s time to turn up the heat on their paedophile-chic.