Victoria's Secret Catalog issues

[Alex Franke]

I had always considered them a benefit of marriage, but now that I think of it, I haven't seen one in a while.

Anyway, my university recently decided not to renew it's contract with Victoria's Secret "Pink" line of (rather conservative) logo wear. The chancellor (who is a man) said the images in the catalog where not "consistent with the values of the university in terms of the way they portray women."

Seems to me that if you're in the business of selling women's underwear, then you pretty much need to show pictures of women in their underwear... Besides, if the target audience for that catalog is women, then it seems they would want the photos of the women in the catalog to be in good taste lest they offend their own customers.

And if it's a catalog of women for women, then shouldn't a woman be the one judging how appropriate it is? It seems to me that most men, when looking at photos of women modeling sexy underwear, would see them in a slightly different light than would-be female customers would...

Maybe I'm just being a guy here, but if I were a woman I think I might be offended that a man was sticking his nose in my domain and asserting values based on his uniquely male perspective...

Or has that catalog just been going way over the top lately? Maybe I should ask my wife to sign up for it again so I can investigate further on my own...

[LCHIEN]

for goodness sakes Alex, if you want one so badly, just go tot he web page and sign up for the catalog.

[Uncle Cracker]

I wouldn't worry about it, Alex. They probably don't have anything in your size anyway...

[radhak]

A VS clerk (male) once told me, during the initial days of training they were told to anticipate one of their most heard questions (from women) - "Don't you have anything for men?" He said they were trained to answer - "M'am, everything here is for men...!"

Btw, what sort of a contract does a University have with VS?

[TB Roye]

There are pictures? I always enjoyed and read the articles, stories and jokes, Oh! wrong magazine.


Tom

[LCHIEN]

...

Btw, what sort of a contract does a University have with VS?

said it was logo-ware.
Probably night-shirts with the university logo and mascot on it so the gung-ho collegiate boyfriend can get it up.
University gets a small kickback for use of the logo.

Like this from the VS on-line catalog:

[gary]

A VS clerk (male) once told me,

Just how does a guy land a job like that? :-)

[RAFlorida]

Here I sit, reading a good post by

Alex with concern over male biased veiw on VS contract renewal, and I side with what Alex is writing. Needs further investigation, and I back him on his decision.
But then I read what Loring wrote and got a big smile, always a wise guy in the crowd right?
And then along comes ol' Uncle Cracker, will you know what happened next; spelt my morning coffee on the desk and busted up laughing! Come on guys, Alex got important issues here; ones that we all should be concerned with! LMAO. Thanks Alex for a good post and thanks to Loring and Uncle Cracker for causing me to start the day off with a 'ella of a great laugh. Only on BT3Central.
Heck, for got to note that my wife use to get that catalog; haven't seen one in a few years. hum Gonna do some research with you on that Alex.