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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Re: Did we ever talk about...
updated 10.03.12
ETA: I never understood paying a company to advertise for them. I've never bought any shirt that has the company name on it, especially not ones that are made poorly and over priced. The closest I have to that are t-shirts and tanks for bands because I do support good music. <-- There are plenty of arguements for this too considering most large labels don't give the appropriate royalties, etc. but whatevs.
How many times can this company screw up? Seriously?
The only thing I ever bought from them was cologne for a boyfriend in high school. I refuse to even go in their stores....
| cute shoes make me happy |
It's just wrong.
All companies, but these types of companies, are at least partly responsible for society's outright sexualization of young girls.
It's sick and it must stop, otherwise our daughters will know a very different childhood. :-(
That disgusts me. It's one thing for parents to put those soft, fake "high heels" on their baby girls for fun, but this is something that seriously sexualizes young girls. There are a lot of sick pedos out there and things like this don't help. Nor do things like this help a little girl's self-image by making her think she needs to look a certain way by a certain age. When I was 11, I was so embarrassed about being so flat that I probably would've LOVED a padded bikini top and would've begged my mom to buy this for me. I'm sure she would've refused, thank God.
I did shop at Abercrombie in 99 when I was in high school and the early 00's in my first two years of college. Back then it was just button down blouses, sweaters and jeans and didn't bother me. Now it's a lot of cheaply made, overpriced clothing from a store with a ridiculous image. Sigh.
Oh good Lord.....
I'll admit that I shopped at Abercrombie and Hollister as a teen. I was a brand whore. I went to Hollister last Christmas to buy something for my younger cousin, and was like "wow has it always been this dark and loud in here." I'm old.
ETA: Oh, also, they're size XL is like a size medium, at best. I have a real problem with that.
I nanny and I can't believe the things these young girls have. Whatever happened to being and LOOKING like a young girl?
Why do parents even buy short skirts, low cut tops, makeup, heels, stockings, etc for their young daughters?
Why do parents allow their sons to dress in pants that go under their sneakers and don't cover their boxers? Hats turned sideways, do-rags (spelling?) under them?
Parents are the key, they can turn society around.
Because too many parents want to be "friends" with their kids instead of parents. They want their kids to "like" them, and saying "No you can't have that" is so not the way to get your kids to be your buddy. Of course I know this is a generalization, but unfortunately thats part of why we have this current generation of bratty little teens with severe sense of entitlement and absolutely no discipline.
Phoenix will not be wearing crap like that until shes a teenager, and even then we're going to have some rules with dress code. She doesn't need to flaunt her goods, especially when shes way to young to even have any. She can whine all she wants, tell me she hates me, whatever - I'll just tell her if she doesn't want me picking out her clothes, her dad can, which I can guarantee is going to be much more conservative than my style, lol.
Exactly!
Parents need to teach their children, but especially their girls, that they can be beautiful without putting it all out there. They also need to teach, more importantly in my opinion, that women are waaaay more than just their physical appearance. They are worth way more than that. :-(
When I was 11, the padded bikini top would have been too small for me. Girls aged 7-16 have enough on their plate with self-image and society to have over-sexed merchandise shoved down their throats.
I was just talking about Hollister today. When I was a freshman in college my sister and I went into Hollister for gits and shiggles to try on clothes. At the time we both wore a size 12 (say Old Navy or Levis jeans), we tried on the size 18 (the biggest size they carried) and it didn't even make it past the top of our knees!! It didn't even make it to "thunder thighs." THAT is where the problem is for me. At 5'3'" tall and at the ripe old age of 18, a size 12 jean is average (I weighed about 140 pounds), Hollister made it look like if I wasn't as thin as the mannequin I was fat. Just imagine how that would affect a girl during puberty where she's all whazzed out to begin with.