VS Continues to Sell Stuff w/ Stereotyped Messages
I came across these panties (which read on the front "i said yes" and on the back "congratulations," many weeks ago and found them terribly stereotypical. I was unable to post the picture within the post so please check it out at here.
I can't quite describe my annoyance with this product but I think any feminist will understand what I mean.
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God I wish there was a better place than VS for me to get bras. Between all the underwear with 'Pink' on them, half their lingerie only coming in four sizes and now this?
Unfortunately my only other option is girls' bras, which would be even more tacky.
Discount/closeout stores?
If you fit into a VS sized bra, you will definitely find stuff in your size, for about 5$ or so. Actually, if you fit into one of those sizes, you can go to Target, Walmart, anywhere.
Problem is I'm a rather small size--it's difficult-to-impossible to find it in adult styles, and the girls ones are often, well, tacky. VS doesn't carry everything in my size, but with a little looking I can usually find something that suits me. (Compare this to La Senza in Canada, which stops a band size above mine--no wonder none of my bras fit)
VS is also organised better than most places, so I don't have to check every bra in the store to find something.
http://www.aalingerie.com/ specializes in small sizes, and their stuff is nice.
Thanks. I'll give them a shot.
Man, my first thought was that the "I said yes" sounds like a celebration of enthusiastic consent.
However, the seller suggests it's congratulations for getting married. In which case, I still don't find these problematic.
Is it that the lettering is in pink? That there's glitter? I'm not sure where your issue lies.
As an aside, I don't mean to be inflamatory, I just don't actually understand.
Well I'm a feminist and I don't automatically understand what your annoyance is, but there are two things that I could see could be potentially offensive.
First there's the assumption that it's automatically the man who proposes and the woman who says yes. And then second, you could argue that there's the implication that agreeing to marriage automatically means the husband is entitled to sex.
But on the other hand, my original reaction was the same as Chelsea's, that this is more a celebration of enthusiastic consent. You're saying yes to marriage and to some hot sex. That doesn't sound so bad to me.
There's a whiff of "...on your access to my fanny" about bridal undies. Little bit of woman as newly acquired object.
Now on a T-shirt, it would be no problem.