Sunday's Jc Penney Ad

[Donna]

Jake, if a thoughtful, sincere man of any age pointed out to me the mini-skirt my little girl was wearing, I think I would think about it, even if I reacted nastily.

Men (young and old) take note! I think there's a lot you can do in this area. Think about it: if the females dressed like this had had a father or older brother or anyone close to them who loved them and pointed these things out at the least, things might be different.

It doesn't have to be tricky: once, when my girls saw an ad or something w/ these mini tank dresses, I said, "Isn't that sad? This is just like underwear, and they're wearing it in public."

Or ask, "what do the Blessed Mother's clothes look like?"

I guess the above might be for girls you already know. But at least pray Maria Goretti for them (we'll all be invoking St. Maria all day!)... but Jake and all others maybe God would ask you to say something and don;'t worry about it not being perfect!

P.S. I've been known to reprimand severly the youngsters swearing on the playground.

[Lil Red]

Those shorts/pantaloons make me really mad. What makes me madder is the parents that let their kids wear them. I'm sorry, my 3year old (if I had a daughter) doesn't need to be wearing shorts that say "Sexy Thang" on them. 23 year old guys (and older) don't need to be looking at my 3 year old daughter like that!!! It's sick and wrong!!!!!!!

And you know what else? Bikinis for the under 10 age. I'm sorry, we don't need to be accentuating something that girls that age don't have!!! Even if they did, do we really want perverts looking at their chest? NO!!!!!!

[Dave]

Reminds me of all these beauty pageants for young girls. Y'all remember when JonBenet Ramsey was murdered, and there was all this footage on the news of her in beauty pageants? They showed her, for example, dressed in a Las Vegas showgirl outfit and other "glamorous" outfits, wearing make-up, doing bump-and-grinds, etc. Most people here are probably way too young to remember Shirley Temple's movies, as am I, and yet, for her time, she was cute! No makeup, sexy clothes, or anything like that. By today's standards, she'd probably be considered ugly. And yet, she looked more classy than many young girls today!

[Lil Red]

Dave, I agree. Girls (it seems) have to be pretty and be made up, etc. What about those girls who feel they aren't pretty? What is our society telling them about where they belong in this society? I'll tell what it's saying, it's saying you are not pretty enough, nor will you ever be, so get plastic surgery, get a boob job, have low self-esteem, or better yet, just kill yourself so we don't have to deal with you. Sad. :(

[BlueRose]

This might be a little late in the conversation, but I just checked out the Abercrombie website to check out what all this "buzz" that I've been hearing is about.

Oh. My. Gosh.

No wonder the percentages of "High School Seniors Who Have Had Sex" are up in the - I believe - 80's. No wonder "nice" girls who dress appropriately and BEHAVE properly continue to get stepped on by crappy guys. With all THAT garbage out there, it's like a brainwash system. It keeps getting worse and worse, slipping through every seam in entertainment. Desensatizing. DEHUMANIZING.

So much for any plans of mine to grow up and get married. At the rate things are going, I'll be extremely lucky to find a guy that hasn't been totally jaded by all this carp.

[VeraMaria]

Horrible. Sick. Horrible. Disgusting.

And take this from a teen in the middle of high school!!

[Donna]

Blue Rose, your post is so very sad, and on the money, I reckon, with one exception: those males who practice "custody of the eyes". It is impossible to not see some of this stuff some of the time...or hear it, or read it.

It is more necessary than ever to consecrate our senses to our Blessed Lady.

But take heart. Pagan Rome (I keep thinking) had to be really bad, too.

Our Lord meant it: we have to avoid the ocassion of sin. If we are faithful in practicing the faith and keeping the Commandments, we have good hope God will preserve our faith in the increasing number of necssary ocassions of sin.

Please...don't anyone go back to Abercrombie.

[PatrickRitaMichael]

Yeah, Abercromie is evil. I was a deskie for my dorm a couple of years ago and I had to sort mail and I was putting away this magazine called "A and F" wrapped in plastic w/ a warning that it was inappropriate for people under some age, or some warning that made me think that someone is getting porn! I mentioned this to my friend and he was like, it was the Abercrombie and Fitch catalogue -- it's so bad that they can't mail it out w/o a wrapper and you have to be over 18 to get it b/c it has such enlightening articles such as, "how to have sex in a twin bed when you're living in the dorms." Remember that when you shop there -- this is what you're supporting!

But, there is hope for stuff like the JCPenny shirt. Abercrombie sold a shirt that was offensive to Asian people and so many people complained that they pulled it. So you should complain, you have a right to, and remember -- MONEY TALKS! I am a firm believer in protest and it seems that these days the only way that people listen is when you protest w/ your money. So now I only shop at Goodwill -- it's cheap and I can actually find pantaloons that don't show my butt when I bend down to pick something up

If I ever have kids we are moving to Alaska so that all they can wear is parkas and won't want to be scandalous for fear of freezing to death!

[CICCIO]

thats messed up

[BLAZEr]

Yes... that is totally sexual.

Thank the luther, calvin, knox, etc... for the degradation of morals.

God Bless,

ironmonk

this made me laugh . . .

It reminds me of a joke we used to have in my house in college. Anytime anything bad every happened: a broken pipe, locked out of a car, dinner burned, we would all say "It's the damned contraceptive mentality!"

Lol . . . often we could make a really good argument as to why Contraception and teh contraceptive mentality had caused our problems.

[frozencell]

While we're at it we might as well write complaints to Gadzooks, too, as they are one of the premier purveyors of this type of clothing ( and the Playboy clothing line, too.).

[frozencell]

Yeah, Abercromie is evil. I was a deskie for my dorm a couple of years ago and I had to sort mail and I was putting away this magazine called "A and F" wrapped in plastic w/ a warning that it was inappropriate for people under some age, or some warning that made me think that someone is getting porn! I mentioned this to my friend and he was like, it was the Abercrombie and Fitch catalogue -- it's so bad that they can't mail it out w/o a wrapper and you have to be over 18 to get it b/c it has such enlightening articles such as, "how to have sex in a twin bed when you're living in the dorms." Remember that when you shop there -- this is what you're supporting!

But, there is hope for stuff like the JCPenny shirt. Abercrombie sold a shirt that was offensive to Asian people and so many people complained that they pulled it. So you should complain, you have a right to, and remember -- MONEY TALKS! I am a firm believer in protest and it seems that these days the only way that people listen is when you protest w/ your money. So now I only shop at Goodwill -- it's cheap and I can actually find pantaloons that don't show my butt when I bend down to pick something up

If I ever have kids we are moving to Alaska so that all they can wear is parkas and won't want to be scandalous for fear of freezing to death!

I couldn't agree more with everything in this post. BRAVO!!!!!

And me and my wife LOVE Goodwill! :D

[Lil Red]

i'm sorry, i can't stand Goodwill. At least not the one in my city.The managers there are extremely mean to the mentally ill people there, plus it's just not a pleasant place to shop.

It is probably different where you guys are at.