(Unfortunately, it's video, and I can't find a text version.)
Victoria's Secret too sexy? What the fuck?
It's fucking bras and panties! And teddies and all that other good stuff that you like to see women in, but like more to see crumpled on the floor. Seriously, what do you think the catalog has been used more for: women making purchases, or men spilling their seed?
It strikes me as really, really odd that everything else in modern culture is becoming more accepting of sex, but Victoria's Secret is trying to be more conservative. I can't turn on primetime TV without seeing people having bikini sex (so realistic
), but the VS models are gonna be wearing burkhas now? (Okay, that's extreme, but it is a weird dichotomy.)The CEO, like the CEOs of most modern companies, is a fucktard. "Sales were down last quarter, so it's obvious that we're taking the wrong approach and need to clean up our act." Uh, dude, in case you didn't notice, the economy's in the fucking shitter, and consumer confidence and spending are down to incredibly low levels. Maybe your sales are down because women aren't buying $70 bras because they are worried they might get kicked out of their houses? Just a thought.
Goddammit, the corporate mentality of "sales are down slightly; let's reinvent the wheel!" is so fucking stupid it boggles my mind. (It's not as stupid as the other corporate belief, "We project a sales increase of 200%, but only got an increase of 199%, so this [line/product/campaign] is a dismal failure." But it's damned close.)
