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January 3rd, 2008 at 2:02 pm
WTF? That is so wrong!
January 3rd, 2008 at 2:14 pm
OMFG. This is messed up on so many many levels.
January 6th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
I prefer this one or this one, thank you
January 6th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Ugh. Hadn’t seen THAT one yet, Lisa…egad. Here’s a U.K. article you’ll appreciate though, called, “Girls Being Brainwashed to be Promiscuous” —definitely need to post this one and link back.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=OYIRAZ1LGKYDNQFIQMGCFF4AVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2007/12/10/nkids210.xml
January 7th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Julie, good choices. Thanks for stopping by.
Amy, thanks for the tip.
January 7th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
[…] “Hooters Girl in Training” toddler tee was off the charts, (hat tip to Corporate Babysitter) and ranked right up there with […]
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:10 pm
[…] logo positioned between the spread legs of a male model, and points to “the tasteless toddler tee Hooters Girl in Training” as examples of overt and inappropriate sexual content in […]
January 29th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
[…] created by many other ads that are MUCH worse. On the one hand, Target is not responsible for “Future Hooters” or “Axe Bomchickawawa role models”—but Target’s marketing department has to know (or be […]
May 20th, 2008 at 10:28 am
[…] Hooters has come under criticism for its new t-shirt line for toddlers. […]
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:31 am
That’s gross. D:
November 11th, 2008 at 5:20 am
[…] of suggestive innuendos plastered on the chests of wee ones? Tired of ‘So Sexy So Soon’ messaging at ever-younger ages? […]