Vicar takes a stand against Playboy branded pencil cases aimed at children

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news story here

good for him, i hate playboy branded stuff aimed at children

Yes, dittany how about you write a template (I have sneaking suspicion it would be great and better than anything I could) and we'll all copy, paste and send??

yes can someone do a letter.

aw, nice vicar

Good for him. I won't buy those products. I think it's out of order. They also sell Playboy branded products in Claire's Accessories etc.

hi, I just fired off an e-mail to W H Smiths telling them "we don't want this filth targeted at our children". On their website there is a "contact us" option.

On Claires Accessories website there isn't a "contact us" option, does anyone have an e-mail address for them.

Have we all e-mailed our comments to W H Smiths then? Is that what we're doing?

This may seem a little off topic but bear with me..
I have a DS who is adopted. We fostered him when our niece could not look after him. She neglected him etc. She then went on to have a girl. Anyway. Earlier this year I discovered she had started up a website for the two children on a networking site. She had graphics for the two children. For our DS she had a tigger dressed up in gansta stylee. For the little girl guess what she thought was ok? Yep a pink and silver glittery playboy bunny head! The little girl is 2 years old. Birth mum is in early twenties and appears to believe all she has to offer the world is her tits and arse.

We could start a discussion on the Mumsnet Facebook page?

who manufactures them? we could all write to hugh

Claires Acecssories, shocker!

Someone could contact the vicar and say we are up for some DIRECT ACTION

I support the vicar.

I complained to my local ASDA about the magazines like 'Nuts' and 'Loaded' being displayed right by the tills in my local store, with covers dipicting nubile girls posing nipple to nipple or straddling each other.

They said it was company policy to display them there as they were only following guidelines.

I really don't think we should put up with things like this being foisted on our children

no I can't think of one

I don't think Playboy advertise here or anything

unless cheestrings are a very cunning ruse for grooming children to be future consumers of porn (VERY POSSIBLY)

I'll also join in.

Really don't understand why shops sell these things, nor why parents buy them either (but that's another subject).

Will write a letter to both WH Smiths, and Clares

I think it is helpful to keep discussions and debate going on here as well - after all, we know how much the media love nicking stories from Mumsnet.
Some people said on BBC Breakfast yesterday ''oh FFS, there are more important things to get angry about''. Well yes there are, but to me this sort of thing is symptomatic of wider society ills and problems. Us parents have a huge amount of spending power and influence, let's use it.

'Lolita' bed was withdrawn

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks that the "Girls Of The Playboy Mansion" is the most condeming, depressing programme.

This kind of tat serves to teach children that it is okay for a woman to be nothing more than a play thing for a man (a dirty old lech in a smoking jacket) to discard once bored. I am not prudish but for as long as that concept exists feminisim has failed.

How utterly hopeless is such a message.

I love this quote from the link posetd just below:

"A New York judge commented that, '. . .A society that loses its sense of outrage is doomed to extinction.' Where is the outrage of child advocates, parents, all citizens? A society cannot continue to abandon its responsibility to its children for humanitarian reasons as well as its own future."

It's frustrating to feel like the lone voice or the lone voices on this issue. It's sad that it takes a man and a man of the church - to highlight this issue and gain news coverage.

I have ranted to my DH about the Playboy merchandise before and he gets it. I said to him that HE needs to go into the shop and complain, on behalf of his two DDs (and he would). So, if you can get your DHs riled up about it, and add his name and signature to your letter I think it is less likely to fall on deaf ears.

Oops - lone voices - is that an oxymoron?!

You know what I meant.

wow, good for him! top vicar.
yes I would be up for some direct action.
with friends of course