Feminism in News and Popular Media

[CherylNYC]

Originally Posted by femmeInterrupted

I hear you. I don't actually know where to begin either. ...

Shitballs.

The place to begin is signing this petition:

http://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign...QG3VQ&rd=1&t=1

No, I don't think it's pointless to sign a petition. It doesn't have as much weight as a court order, but there is strength in numbers.

[femmeInterrupted]

Originally Posted by CherylNYC

The place to begin is signing this petition:

http://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign...QG3VQ&rd=1&t=1

No, I don't think it's pointless to sign a petition. It doesn't have as much weight as a court order, but there is strength in numbers.

Signed!!!!

[femmeInterrupted]

[femmeInterrupted]

Originally Posted by CherylNYC

The place to begin is signing this petition:

http://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign...QG3VQ&rd=1&t=1

No, I don't think it's pointless to sign a petition. It doesn't have as much weight as a court order, but there is strength in numbers.

No only was it NOT pointless-- it WORKED!


http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...cry/?mobile=nc

[femmeInterrupted]

Have you ever wondered why Abercrombie & Fitch doesn't stock XL or XXL sizes in women's clothing?

Well, CEO Mike Jeffries can put an end to your curiosity, though his response may make you never want to shop at the teen retail store ever again.

“In every school there are the cool and popular kids, and then there are the not-so-cool kids,” he told the Salon. “Candidly, we go after the cool kids. We go after the attractive all-American kid with a great attitude and a lot of friends. A lot of people don’t belong [in our clothes], and they can’t belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely."

Teen retailer Abercrombie & Fitch doesn't stock XL or XXL sizes in women's clothing because they don't want overweight women wearing their brand.
They want the "cool kids," and they don't consider plus-sized women as being a part of that group.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/aberc...#ixzz2SvUPwh1e

[CherylNYC]

Originally Posted by femmeInterrupted

Have you ever wondered why Abercrombie & Fitch doesn't stock XL or XXL sizes in women's clothing?

Well, CEO Mike Jeffries can put an end to your curiosity, though his response may make you never want to shop at the teen retail store ever again.

“In every school there are the cool and popular kids, and then there are the not-so-cool kids,” he told the Salon. “Candidly, we go after the cool kids. We go after the attractive all-American kid with a great attitude and a lot of friends. A lot of people don’t belong [in our clothes], and they can’t belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely."

Teen retailer Abercrombie & Fitch doesn't stock XL or XXL sizes in women's clothing because they don't want overweight women wearing their brand.
They want the "cool kids," and they don't consider plus-sized women as being a part of that group.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/aberc...#ixzz2SvUPwh1e

Now I'm speechless.

[Allison W]

Originally Posted by femmeInterrupted

Have you ever wondered why Abercrombie & Fitch doesn't stock XL or XXL sizes in women's clothing?

Well, CEO Mike Jeffries can put an end to your curiosity, though his response may make you never want to shop at the teen retail store ever again.

“In every school there are the cool and popular kids, and then there are the not-so-cool kids,” he told the Salon. “Candidly, we go after the cool kids. We go after the attractive all-American kid with a great attitude and a lot of friends. A lot of people don’t belong [in our clothes], and they can’t belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely."

Teen retailer Abercrombie & Fitch doesn't stock XL or XXL sizes in women's clothing because they don't want overweight women wearing their brand.
They want the "cool kids," and they don't consider plus-sized women as being a part of that group.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/aberc...#ixzz2SvUPwh1e

...But I bet they stock XL and XXL in men's sizes. (I'd have checked the article, but I can't get it to load. It seems that my neck of the woods has been having DNS problems for the past several days.)

[Allison W]

It's too late to edit my last post, but I just looked it up from a Facebook link and they do carry XL and XXL in men's sizes, but "only to appeal to large athletes."

What about women who are large athletes?

[Kobi]

“There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people say one thing and mean another, and you have to know all the rules, you have to know what you can and can't do.”

Elizabeth Scott, The Unwritten Rule

[femmeInterrupted]

Originally Posted by Allison W

It's too late to edit my last post, but I just looked it up from a Facebook link and they do carry XL and XXL in men's sizes, but "only to appeal to large athletes."

What about women who are large athletes?

I'm guessing that there are NO large athletic women 'COOL' enough to wear XL clothing.

The whole thing just feeds into SO many terrible and damaging sexist, sizeist, bullshit misogynistic messages and attitudes it makes me nuts.

[femmeInterrupted]

Why are you taking this so personally?

This entire piece is an answer to that last question.

When women are bombarded every day from every direction with questions and statements that lessen their worth as human beings, question their judgement, undermine their experiences,
and collectively make the very loud statement that what women say and experience matters far less than how women look and what men think of women, it's damned hard NOT to take it personally,
or to not get upset at yet another person cracking sexist jokes without thinking them through.

[Kobi]

Originally Posted by femmeInterrupted

I'm guessing that there are NO large athletic women 'COOL' enough to wear XL clothing.

The whole thing just feeds into SO many terrible and damaging sexist, sizeist, bullshit misogynistic messages and attitudes it makes me nuts.

Abercrombie & Fitch are well known for their bullshit.


Abercrombie criticized for selling push-up tops to little girls


By the CNN Wire Staff

March 27, 2011 -- Updated 0154 GMT (0954 HKT)\

CNN) -- No stranger to controversy, U.S. retailer Abercrombie & Fitch has come under fire for offering a push-up bikini top to young girls.

Its "Ashley" bikini -- described as "padded" and a "push-up" -- was posted on the Abercrombie Kids website earlier this week.

The company declined to comment Saturday but noted it has since updated the description of its bikini online.

The product is now being offered as a padded, "striped triangle." Bottoms are sold separately.

"How is this okay for a second-grader?" asked Rebecca Odes in a recent post on the Babble parenting blog.

"Playing at sexy is an inevitable and important part of growing up. But there's a difference between exploring these ideas on your own and having them sold to you in a children's catalog," she wrote.

Gail Dines, a sociology professor at Wheelock College in Boston, similarly slammed the top, saying it would encourage girls to think about themselves in a sexual way before they are ready.

"It (also) sends out really bad signals to adult men about young girls being appropriate sexual objects," she told CNN affiliate WHDH.

This is not the first time the company, known for its sexy style of marketing campaigns, has found itself in hot water with consumers.

In 2002, the retailer pulled controversial T-shirts after complaints they were racially insensitive. One shirt showed Chinese laundry workers with conical hats and the phrase, "Wong Brothers Laundry Service: Two Wongs Can Make It White."

In 2003, the company -- under pressure from some consumer groups -- said it would stop issuing racy catalogues and halt the publication of its holiday book, which featured nude young adult models in sexually suggestive poses.