Student 'girlcott' protests Abercrombie t-shirts

Abercrombie is at it again. Known for causing controversy, their past exploits have included releasing a "catalog" full of topless women and men wearing nothing downstairs as well as putting t-shirts out that said "L is for Loser" after the US gymnasts lost in the Olympics. It is another t-shirt that is now causing a stir, and rightly so.

With a few words on their T-shirts, Abercrombie & Fitch lets young women send a message: "Who needs a brain when you have these?"

A group of female high school students have a message for A&F: Stop degrading us.
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"We're telling [girls] to think about the fact that they're being degraded," Emma Blackman-Mathis, the 16-year-old co-chair of the group, told RedEye on Tuesday. "We're all going to come together in this one effort to fight this message that we're getting from pop culture."
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News of the girlcott hadn't reached Tawana Clark, 20, who was applying for a job at the Abercrombie & Fitch store in Water Tower Place on Tuesday. But she doesn't think the protest will work.

"I think it's only older people that have a problem with it," she said. "Teenagers don't have a problem with it."

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A girl applying thinks only older people care, yet it is a group of teens that has spearheaded the campaign. I for one, would like to commend these girls for their stance. And it appears all this "free press" hasn't been so good for the company.

Abercrombie & Fitch Co. said Friday that it will stop selling some T-shirts that a group of teenage girls found offensive.

The Women & Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania was protesting the retailer over T-shirts for women emblazoned with sayings such as "Who needs brains when you have these?" and "I had a nightmare I was a brunette."

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