Comments on: “Sexy” tights for tweens on Amazon.com

By: Patrick Byers

Patrick Byers — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:40:14 +0000

James – Wow. Quite a comment. You call a pre-teen girl sexy, then call anyone that thinks this is wrong “twisted?” I wonder what others that read this post will think?

By: James Riske

James Riske — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 23:52:01 +0000

Admit it, people. She does look sexy. All you guys are hypocrites and just want to run around trying to stifle and repress everyone’s sexuality. Those tights DO look sexy on her. You sick twisted people are too submissive to society to admit it.

By: Ted

Ted — Wed, 26 May 2010 05:08:30 +0000

Nothing really wrong with the product itself. Spiderwebs are cool. The marketing however is pretty sick

By: Anonymous Pirate

Anonymous Pirate — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:53:07 +0000

They have also changed “sexy” to “cute”. I remember reading another article on training bras. WHat exactly are the point to training bras, except to sucker dumbass parents into buying superflous clothing for their kids?

By: Lisa @ Corporate Babysitter

Lisa @ Corporate Babysitter — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:13:22 +0000

A commentor over at my blog noted that although the tights are still for sale, the photo and description are now gone. Thanks!

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By: Kathy

Kathy — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:24:20 +0000

(1) I wore fishnet “hosiery” in the 7th grade (age 12). They were cool. I would probably have worn these, because they’re even cooler. [Note: I'm a boomer. I'm old!]

(2) That said, I think the product positioning is wrong for a couple of reasons. First, as someone else pointed out, the child does not appear to be a “tween” but younger. Second, there’s the issue of a minor finding the tights through a product search and then clicking through to the provider page. Not good.

(3) As far as the comments about the makeup and modeling, I have one thing to say: JonBenet Ramsey. There are a lot of people in America who are into beauty contests for very young children.

(4) Amazon has pulled the product:
Currently unavailable.
We don’t know when or if this item will be back in stock.

By: IdaRose Sylvester

IdaRose Sylvester — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:49:52 +0000

While I cut advertisers (and consumers who fall for it) much slack for poor taste, promoting sexy for a 11-12 year olds is extremely inappropriate, and reminds me of Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver. Why would someone want their child to look like this? Is it supposedly cute at this age, and offensive only later? I thought we all learned a lesson with JonBenet Ramsey 10 years ago–dressing children up as adults is not appealing.

By: Moon

Moon — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:03:08 +0000

Amazon should pull this company, no company with a name like Pretty Sinful that sells lingerie should be featuring anyone under 18 on it. It’s pedophilia, it’s inappropriate, and it just plain isn’t somewhere any parent in their right mind should be allowing their own children to model, where are the parents in this situation? I don’t think that girl even looks twelve, maybe more like nine or ten. The scary thing is this, they might be showing that product modeled on a child, and it might seem like marketing it to a child, but it’s adults who have the means to buy this stuff, it’s adults who order this stuff, if the adults ordering it are the parents, what the heck are they thinking? I do have a problem with a company that is clearly meant to sell adult products marketing to children, or posing children in provocative photos, who is buying this stuff from them, the parents? Some weirdo? All that aside, there is way to much pressure on young girls these days to look and dress much older than they are, the styles that are coming out any more are way older looking than they were when I was that age. But is that the fault of the company marketing it, the company manufacturing and pushing it, or the parents who aren’t setting limits and telling these companies enough is enough?

By: Melissa Griswold

Melissa Griswold — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:58:55 +0000

Child porn is bad. Sexy tights for little one is good. No wonder we have so many messed up people -both men and women. UGH! We live in such a hypocritical double-sided world and this just continues to prove it. Unfortunately, we say “Boo Amazon” or “Boo manufacturer” but it all boils back down to bad parenting, money, and our sexy celebrity-loving-media. We can’t continue to put band-aids on huge open wounds.

Never in a million years would my mother allow me to wear something like that.

Oh and I love Dennis’ response on Amazon.