'Lolita' bed for girls withdrawn.
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reddragdivaHIGH STREET, Scunthorpe, Friday (UNN) — A British retailer has withdrawn a bedroom set targeted at young girls that was branded under the name "Lolita" after a furious campaign by a mothers' group. Staff at the Woolworths retail group were apparently unaware that the brand of the bed set was the same as the title of Vladimir Nabokov's famous novel, which told the story of a middle-aged Internet user who became sexually obsessed with his 12-year-old stepdaughter.
"What seems to have happened is the staff who run the website had never heard of Lolita, and to be honest, no one else here had either," a Woolworths spokesman said. "We had to look it up on Uncyclopedia. But we certainly know who she is now."
The bed set, which included a wooden bed with a pull-out desk, cupboard and condom and sex toy drawer, was intended for girls aged six, and retailed for £395.
The campaign was sparked after mother of four Brenda Busybody, 34 (IQ), noticed the product on the Woolworths website. "Am I being particularly sensitive, or does anyone else out there think it's bad taste for Woolies to have a kiddy bed range named 'Lolita'?" she said, after going into Woolworths to buy her seven-year-old daughter Shardinnaiye a top with the Playboy bunny logo, trousers with "SWEET ASS" across the bottom and some hair remover, just like all her friends had.
The bed set has been renamed "Maddie."
- Garish Glitter "I thought 'pedophile' meant foot fetishist". North American Man-Boy Just Good Friends Association, February 1, 2008
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Date: 2008-02-01 12:13 pm (UTC)That's post-post-modern there.
Xenu save us.
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Date: 2008-02-01 12:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-01 12:29 pm (UTC)Holy fuck, I didn't think it was true! Ewwww!
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Date: 2008-02-01 12:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-01 02:08 pm (UTC)Can you give me a link?
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Date: 2008-02-01 02:15 pm (UTC)I saw the title in the tab and thought you'd linked to your own UnNews article.
*boggle*
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Date: 2008-02-01 02:17 pm (UTC)I have no problem with women removing unwanted body hair - but marketing a hair remover at pubescent girls who are just starting to notice hair appearing is rather icky. I mean, you're probably talking 10-13 year olds here.
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Date: 2008-02-01 02:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-02-01 02:57 pm (UTC)Hey where is that hair removal story. I search the web site link, but found nothing...that is wild.
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Date: 2008-02-01 03:24 pm (UTC)from the Age (http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/why-10-is-too-young-for-your-first-brazilian/2008/01/07/1199554567704.html)
No actual mishaps that I know about tho' - that may have been a fabrication on my part, but I'm sure its only a matter of time.
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Date: 2008-02-01 03:33 pm (UTC)It's an Arm and Hammer company, too.
But hey, let's not talk about sex, but we sure can talk about hair removal in private parts because it makes you FEEL pretty.
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Date: 2008-02-01 03:50 pm (UTC)Thank you for that link.
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Date: 2008-02-01 03:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-01 03:57 pm (UTC)I think the consumerism has reached an all time low. They sell products to over weight women, and all the while, they KNOW that the product won't work. People have to exercise and eat right to lose weight. But no, let's sell millions to billions of dollars worth of useless crap because people are stupid.
Ugh.
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Date: 2008-02-01 03:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-02-01 04:02 pm (UTC)Dammit man! At least I am not using it to shave my pubes. :P
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Date: 2008-02-01 04:05 pm (UTC)"Overplucked m' pubes, now I have to draw m' cunt on every morning" -
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Date: 2008-02-01 04:07 pm (UTC)Stop it, you are making my sides hurt from laughing so hard.
I had a friend, yes a friend, who used scissors on her privates. She slipped and cut the lip. Now, I call her Scissor Slit. hahahah
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Date: 2008-02-01 03:02 pm (UTC)??
twas written before teh interweb, no?
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Date: 2008-02-01 03:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-01 06:26 pm (UTC)Why do I get the feeling this bed's primary purchasers would be the same sort of people who would patronize a panty vending machine?