I am, however, deeply skeptical about the motives of a company that sells a sexualized lifestyle to inflate profits. What do I know? I am not now, nor have I ever been, a young girl. Still, maybe young girls will think the thongs are cute. The shirts were pulled from store shelves shortly thereafter. Of course, this is the Hampton Carney who said a couple of months ago that Abercrombie thought Asians would love T-shirts it planned to sell showing stereotyped Asian characters. "Once you get about 10, you start to care about your underwear, and you start to care about your clothes," he said. The thongs are meant to be "lighthearted and cute," according to an Abercrombie statement, and spokesman Hampton Carney told The Chronicle last week that the underwear is age-appropriate. But now, thanks to the Abercrombie whizzes, 10-year-old girls are suddenly sex objects.
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