Does this mean the shirtless model has to cover up too?
- added February 4, 2008
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- DavidNeuman
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Virginia Beach, which is as I recall the home of the Thomas Road Baptist Church (the late Jerry Falwell's home pulpit) is actually seizing Abercrombie in-store displays. I guess it must be that a lot of that stuff is considered porn. Did they just open in Virginia Beach, or did it take them that long to figure it out?
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- DavidNeuman
- 8 months ago
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They just opened in Europe last year, complete with half naked boys and skinny girls slinging shirts in flipflops. Check out this Current pod about one man who had the 'A&F look' and was recruited to work at the store. Abercrombie Exposed.
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And i'm guessing that these Improv Everywhere guys wouldn't be a welcome sight in Virginia Beach either... or would they? I'm wondering if these displays would have been considered porn if they weren't hot young men, but instead slightly portly, aging men...
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Girls are always complining about being exploited but never complain when men are...in fact they encourage it.
Neither sex should be exploited...
It sends out the wrong message to our children and this kind of adverising of both sexes should not be tolerated.
The people behind the brand should have their computers raided...I bet you'd find some grotesque stuff!!! -
Oh, and raiding computers would be the solution... right... by policing what people do on their PCs (personal computers...) we hope to remove anything that anyone could deem "evil"?
How about educating people to choices?
I don't agree that not tolerating "this kind of ads" is the solution... what is it actually going to achieve?
Let's be realistic - and educate ourselves to the standards at large of our society: if images like these help sell, companies will always try to push them onto our faces. Fact.
After all, what's wrong with showing a male or female body? i never agree with he objectification of a body, but very often I also REALLY disagree with our socially diseased need to 'cover it up'... we were born naked, right?-
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- dscalenghe
- 8 months ago
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Obscene? Granted I've only seen the one picture above, but come on, that doesn't even come close. What exactly about this picture throws it in the "obscene" catagory? Don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of Abercrombie and would definitely decribe the above photo as pretentious, and a bit conceited, but pornographic?
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Yeah, I wear abercrombie and fitch, and american eagle, and hollister, and aeropostle. This doesn't make me a sex figure, nor does it make the companies a pimp. Its funny that a church is telling people to cover themselves. Also why does it matter what people wear? Sure an over weighted man wearing skinny jeans could be awfully painful + disturbing, but is it really any body's business what he wears? If this is an issue then why are we learning about the reproductive organs in grade 6 or 7? If ambercrombie had displays of mannequins posing in sexual positions then yes there is a problem, but what is the problem with them standing there?
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Man Virginia is so ass backwards! I lived in VA for almost 4 years and they have some of the stupidest laws ever? I mean this is a city that actually has signs posted on the beach that say no cursing. Yet if you walk down VA Beach you can hear those religious fanatics screaming about the world ending. Them pulling these ads just proves how backwards they are moving as a state. There is nothing wrong with the adds. If people are that "offended" by a hot guy without a shirt on, don't shop there.
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- etosha_pent
- 8 months ago
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I did a search and read an article in the Va. Beach newspaper about this situation. It seems that officials felt that a shirtless man, exposing part of his buttocks was in violation to their law. This law says in part that nudity that is harmful to adolescents is illegal. I don't get how this ad is harmful to adolescents. Children don't need to be sheltered from the sight of naked flesh- we all have it, don't we. I think this is just another knee-jerk reaction without any real substance to back it up. Mr. Neuman, I believe Thomas Road Baptist Church is in Lynchburg, Va. I'm not a fan of the good reverend, I just happened to live there in Lynchburg for a while.
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Oh my god! Butt crack is showing! I guess all the plumbers in VA need to move or else they'll get cited with obscenity charges too, haha. Perhaps they'll just have to work at houses with no adolescents. This is so dumb. Everyone has a butt crack and for the most part, everyone's butt looks pretty much the same.
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The pictures at the Abercrombie and Fitch stores, and the ones on their website, and attached to this Current are NOT PORN. The pictures do not show any sexual parts.
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- kaecvtionr
- 8 months ago
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What's wrong with a little porn. There's all this hubub about sex, it's only natural that adolescents are going to be curious. It's better that they satiate their curiosity by watching others do it, instead of experimenting first hand. Fortunately the internet is available to adolescents looking to gain some important knowledge on the subject. If the Church wants to crack down on silly yuppie adds, OK, they'll go to the internet for info.
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Um... this is ridiculous.
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Man, talk about backwoods. I'm from Alabama and even they don't complain about Abercrombie ads...at least not in the store...
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This is ridiculous. It's Fashion.. dressing the human form. Of all the causes inthe world to pick, and some chose this...seriously????
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