Over at Feministing, a reader noticed these panties in the “juniors” section at the Wal-Mart on Kildare Farms Road in Cary, NC.
While we can’t disagree with the strict literal interpretation of the message, perhaps Walmart should consider printing it on a wallet, rather than on panties meant for teenage girls. The whole prostitution angle is clouding the message of fiscal responsibility. Hey, it’s just a suggestion.
(Photo:Feministing)(Thanks,Tormolen!)
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Wow. Gross. That’s at least as gross as the Aberzombie kiddie thong underpants, maybe even more gross. Nothing says “family values” like the implication that your preteen should peddle her ass for cash rather than using a credit card.
Its a good thing isn’t it. Teaching kids early how to avoid using credit cards.
/so going to hell for that one/
I am patiently waiting for the “some call it stalking, I call it love” phrase to come on boxer shorts. Nothing quite epitomizes tact and class like Wal-Mart.
I’ve always thought my vagina was a Black AmEx now i can announce it to my potential beau and never have to take off my panties.
Better than that… Waiting for the pair of panties that says “It’s my Britney B!#$h….”
lol
Walmart censors movies and music, but carries a product that suggests that underage girls use their genitals instead of money?
Ah, Walmart. Family values for all!
Isn’t ass-peddling the new social media craze? Like Twitter, but retro and hip.
Hahahaha.
Nelly was doing it wrong…
From consumer whores to actual whores! GG Walmart
If you don’t like them, don’t buy them for your kid. Just because some people find them offensive shouldn’t stop those who don’t from purchasing them.
@Pylon83:
oh, this drivel again. no one is suggest state censorship. We are suggesting that wal-mart be shamed for promoting underage sex and prostitution. It’s all the more discusting because of their sanctimonious stance on many other issues.
@Hyland: Thank you!
It’s not that they should be legally prevented, they should just be prevented by their own sense of decency.
Gross!
@Pylon83:
Seriously? Didn’t you get the memo about the editing of CDs by WalMart? Don’t you find it a tad ironic that you can’t say whore on a CD, but it’s OK to advertise to preteens to be one?
With that said, I’ve seen this message before, written with a sharpie on my hubby’s undies, but at least he doesn’t censor my CD collection!
I can see the marketing meeting now. “Lindsey and Britney aren’t wearing panties, how on earth are we going to get teens to keep buying them?” A brief silence falls on the room, and the creepy guy in the back says. “Aha! I have it, slut panties!”
Be on the look out for mesh panties that overlay a fake tramp stamp on the small of the back. “For girls under 18 who know what they are going to do in life.”
My partner and I saw them in a Walmart in Northwestern PA about a month ago. Partner was sufficiently upset that a manager was summoned, and freaking out occured, but no resolution.
all these comments so far and nobody has mentioned the fact that embroidery has two periods.
And “juniors” doesn’t mean “children.”
Actually, what they’re suggesting is an ellipsis . . .
But they’re actually posing a question, which would be punctuated with a question mark (?).
Actually, no one is emitting any words from the embroidery unless that word happens to be something along the lines of “prostitute.”
The original poster of the comment was only making an observation. It’s only what one would expect at Wal-Mart.
my 8-year-old daughter is totally getting these and a bratz doll in her stocking this year. i think her childhood has lasted long enough.
Who comes up with this stuff? Who approves this product to go to production and actually be distributed. It boggles the mind. Some company actually chose to make these. And Wal-Mart chooses to distribute them.
This is a perfect addendum to the Wal-Mart Business Plan:
1. Fuck your community. We’re coming, with either 1 store or 2, or however many it takes to get around the pitiful little “laws” you pass in a futile attempt to keep us out.
2. Fuck your local businesses. We will under-sell them, and ruin them, leaving no competition in town.
3. Fuck your ecology. We will drain protected wetlands to make room for our stores. See also #1.
4. Fuck your local workforce. We’ll underpay them, offer shitty “benefits,” and force them to work unpaid overtime by locking them into the stores overnight. They’ll be forced to suck it up and take it in the ass because there won’t be any other jobs in the area. See also #2 and #1.
5. Fuck your daughters and your values. We’ll corrupt your daughters and make them money-grubbing whores who will never make anything of themselves and will be forced to work for us for the rest of their miserable small-town lives.
Oh now they’re just taunting us.
You continue to one-up youselves, WalMart. What’s next?
Way to go walfart, another ultra classy move
And have we come to expect anything better from WalMart? Nope.
@3drage: I was going to summon outrage for implying having a lower back tattoo makes me slutty.
But I was laughing to hard. Hilarious.
@Eilonwynn: One wonders what you were doing cruising the girl’s underwear aisle.
I don’t think they have just ‘adult’ undies though. It’s like juniors and granny panties. I’m fairly sure these aren’t in the kids’ undies section. Still amusing that they’ll carry these but not certain music selections.
Those are horrible! I see the humor… but honestly what does this say about our society? or more importantly what message is this sending to young girls and boys?
They should offer two others with the following written:
Cash is best..
Can’t touch this without the cash..
i leave for you all, lyrics from a hugely popular r&b song, sung by a 16 year old girl:
“I got them boys chasing me trying to make me the one
When I’m out shopping it’s like having a gun
Whatever I want I get, got them boys caught up”
Walmart is following a greater trend. not to say they don’t still suck for it.
Fine, Then WalMmart censors music while carrying products urging women of all ages who can fit into juniors panties to use their genitals instead of money.
FWIW, I don’t associate Juniors with children, but with teens.
OMG, that’s the Wal-Mart I used to go to when I lived in that area!
In related gross Wal-Mart kiddie undie news, they also sell padded bras for little girls. That’s right, you can train those little boobies from jump to make great cleavage. Sick!
Probably pays better than a job at walmart
If you read way down in the comments, someone notes that on the back of the underwear it says:
“..when you’ve got SANTA”
Doesn’t that change the meaning just a BIT???
These go well with the Ashley and whats her name twin clothes they sell. Geared for young girls, they are called “s**twear” by more than one parent.
Personally speaking, I don’t think those panties have the ability to give camel toes.
Uggg sick. I just realized it was for juniors.
@BugMeNot2: In some stores, its actually “..when you’ve got SATAN”.
But all that changes the meaning to is that she’ll give it up to Santa/Pimp and not everyone.
@BugMeNot2: it should say on the inside “…when you’ve got a pussy like this.” come on guys, it’s so obvious.
@Consumerist: “…perhaps Walmart should consider printing it on a wallet, rather than on panties meant for teenage girls. The whole prostitution angle is clouding the message of fiscal responsibility.”
That kinda goes along with the “It’s not whoring if you do it for free” T-shirt.
I’d kill my teenage sister if she ever wore either.
Okay, now I have a visual of some teen having a non-credit transaction with some fat old bastard in a red suit in some small sooty location.
Merry Christmas to you, too, Wal-Mart.
good lord people. juniors is not childrens. juniors clothes fit highschool through college age women (usually). and *some* middleschool children.
That being said, underwear isn’t even something that is that size specific. you will have 20yr – 30yr olds buying these. its not like its specifically for 12 yr old girls.
Umm i thought the craze was not wearing underwear at all…..
These’ll go great with my “Daddy’s Li’l Porn Star” cami!
@aaron8301: O_o Seriously? SRSLY? I WANT that shirt. Does it come in man sizes?
(And I also want the “Some call it stalking, I call it Love” shirt, but I guess thats just the type of guy I am)
Uh-actually I think they’re kinda cute. If I bought clothes at Walmart, I might buy these panties. I think the message is kinda anti-shopaholic which I like.
Also, Raanne is right, juniors isn’t kids. I’m an adult and I wear juniors. Juniors sizes are more or less the same as woman’s (maybe slightly smaller). I have family members still in college and they all wear junior size clothing.
The irony is by the posting here, I bet these panties are gonna be top sellers and end up on ebay fetching more for their notoriety. Now I’m definitely getting a pair.
Provocative, funny sayings are one thing, but this is just in poor taste. Tsk tsk Sam Fam.
Never did I think I would find Frederick’s of Hollywood to be a bastion of decent morality in this world…oh, and they should totally package this with a fake tramp stamp kit so our little girls can use them together.
@aaron8301: Your teenage sister probably is wearing these things; you just don’t know.
i think its implying that instead of going out and spending money, you could stay home and pet your kitty
After one buys it, who reads it? Well besides the other girls in the locker room before gym… oh highschool… our gym teachers were insensitive morons… They would discuss locker room problems in front of everyone in class, be it spitting in the boys locker room to brassiere snapping in the girls, why didn’t they say it in the locker rooms instead in class, who knows
The funny thing is that the panties are right on the money – you don’t have to worry about all the fees and changing rates associate with credit cards if you live by this philosophy I guess.
Or maybe this is a new way Walmart is trying to help young women avoid credit card debt… No? Well, maybe since I’ve been working with unfaircreditacardfees.com I’ve got it on the brain, but this is the Consumerists – and they were live-blogging the hearings in Washington on credit card practices the other days.
I guess there are ways to avoid interchange fees and there are ways to avoid interchange fees… I find it somewhat sexist though myself – where’s the male version?
Just sayin.