JediMaster
Member
There is a VS right in the middle of downtown near where my partner and I live. We have lived in that town for most of our lives and spend a lot of our time there. Right on a corner where everyone can see, sits VS with its very provocative and unrealistic pictures of their models hanging in every window. My partner and I feel that is is highly inappropriate. Not only difficult for me, but it makes so many women feel self-conscious, hurts self-esteem and exposes children of all ages to pornographic depictions of women. This is a huge problem for obvious reasons, exposing kids, and anyone to pictures that say "it's ok to objectify us" and says to many women that that is what guys want does nothing but damage peoples minds.
We are thinking of trying to make them get rid of them or at least be required to turn the pictures to face inward to the store. Or, something
I think would be better would be for them to have to cover up their windows as would a sex shop or a P store so that the image associated with VS would be a bad one and maybe would raise the issue with their advertising and they way they portray women.
What we are proposing, is to bring this issue to town hall and try and get a petition to get them to rectify this problem. And we're hoping that in doing so, it will raise awareness of the problem of how society is trying to shape what is acceptable. Also to show that what they think is acceptable, showing women off as is at a car show, is absolutely ludicrous to any rational person. We want people to think about how ridiculous it is for a company to be able to openly show that to anyone walking by. Non of those pictures are anything close to being real. They edit out the hair, boniness and imperfections on the skin so that it looks perfectly smoothed and airbrushed, they round off their bottoms and their chests to make them look more round and "perfect" and completely change what they look like. We want people to see that not only is it far too inappropriate to display something like that to possibly such young children but also how it does nothing good for anyone to see and try to achieve what's not possible but the fact that they make it seem possible if you buy their products.
They also don't even size right so nothing fits correctly and their materials don't last so even if they didn't do any of that their products still suck.
We would appreciate any feedback, advice or opinions that would help us pose the issue with town hall and anything that we may say to help our case.
We are thinking of trying to make them get rid of them or at least be required to turn the pictures to face inward to the store. Or, something
I think would be better would be for them to have to cover up their windows as would a sex shop or a P store so that the image associated with VS would be a bad one and maybe would raise the issue with their advertising and they way they portray women.
What we are proposing, is to bring this issue to town hall and try and get a petition to get them to rectify this problem. And we're hoping that in doing so, it will raise awareness of the problem of how society is trying to shape what is acceptable. Also to show that what they think is acceptable, showing women off as is at a car show, is absolutely ludicrous to any rational person. We want people to think about how ridiculous it is for a company to be able to openly show that to anyone walking by. Non of those pictures are anything close to being real. They edit out the hair, boniness and imperfections on the skin so that it looks perfectly smoothed and airbrushed, they round off their bottoms and their chests to make them look more round and "perfect" and completely change what they look like. We want people to see that not only is it far too inappropriate to display something like that to possibly such young children but also how it does nothing good for anyone to see and try to achieve what's not possible but the fact that they make it seem possible if you buy their products.
They also don't even size right so nothing fits correctly and their materials don't last so even if they didn't do any of that their products still suck.
We would appreciate any feedback, advice or opinions that would help us pose the issue with town hall and anything that we may say to help our case.