This is why people are creeped out by Snag Tights

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I don't think that particular advert is promoting paedophilia, it's fancy dress FFS.

I like snag tights, especially their footless cropped tights and shorts - very comfy under a dress in the summer. I also like the fact they sell lots of different colours, not just black and shades of brown.

Sometimes their adverts are a bit off the wall, but it gets them noticed and pretty much everyone has heard of snag tights, so a successful advertising campaign.

Well, their image of an adult lying prone surrounded by children's toys has got them a lot of free publicity so I suppose they've done that deliberately.

I certainly wouldn't buy them. Their photos are so unprofessional, its impossible to determine what they're actually selling or what they look like.

But the adult-kiddy toys photo has given me the ick so much its really put me off.

This exactly.
I am now reconsidering patronising a company that is on the paraphilia normalisation bandwagon and uses child fetishisation imagery in its adverts.

Do you actually think that objecting to having people's tedious and creepy kinks shoved in my face makes me a pearl clutcher?
So tired of all the exhibitionist bores, waving their dysphorias… and their apologists.

But it doesn’t seem like an atypical image when you look at the car crash of images on their website as a whole. It fits in, and posters above have already decided it’s only this image that is the problem, not the website as a whole.

I do like Snag tights (especially the chub rub shorts) but I really don't feel like the marketing is aimed at people like me anymore, I'm an ordinary housewife who wears dungarees, Doc martens and bright colours etc.

Some of the images shown recently are just fetishised and stuff I don't want to see and I think they've lost a target market because of that.

The normalisation of child fetishisation imagery is disturbing.

I often wonder if it has anything to do with a long lockdown and the amount of time people spent in various corners on the internet, bored and lonely.

It's as if what would have been seen as absurd/creepy/disturbing pre-pandemic is now normal to many people.

And those who didn't get their neural pathways rearranged in that time away from normal life now have to deal with them telling us we're the ones with the problem.

I don't have an issue with the concept of tights for all sizes, shapes and tastes. That feels sensible. I'm not quite sure how an advert showing a man dressed as a little girl will encourage the regular tight-wearer to buy more tights from this company though? I'm presuming that they are hoping to expand their demographic, and show how inclusive they are. I wonder whether they realise that the common-or-garden tight wearer is probably a bit put off by ads like this.

But t doesn’t seem like an atypical image when pyou look at the car crash of images on their website as a whole. It fits in, and posters above have already decided it’s only this image that is the problem, not the website as a whole

Indeed.

I think you’ll find that many of us have an issue with a marketing strategy that focuses only on the margins and manages to be inclusive while not really representing the vast majority of people.

That includes the original market of larger women who just wanted tights that fitted them, and who mostly don’t want to be presented in a fetishy manner. Or alongside all manner of really niche shit.

The thing about having a niche interest is that you usually know it’s niche. You don’t expect to see your niche interests represented anywhere but in specialist arenas. That’s true whether your niche interest is dressing as toddler clown drag, whittling or anything else.

It’s just Lolita aesthetic
Oh is that all

Their website looks like a fetish site so I would never purchase from them. Now they've got a man dressing like a little girl. How low can they go.

...and I suspect they have at least one trans identifying man on their website

@JaneJeffer dont be such a Karen! Come on be inclusive!

The transphobic reactions to this advert make me want to buy more Snag tights.

I think they’re doing themselves a huge disservice tbh in presenting as caricatures of larger women. Larger women can be and are sexy, but I really don’t think it needs to be in fishnet tights (which aren’t sexy) and with beards and hairy armpits on display. Why do they have to present larger women in a way which is such an overt challenge (ie if you don’t find my hairy armpits sexy you’re prejudiced)

Its like on here when someone over a size 14 asks for an occasion dress and posters will always suggest Bombshell dresses, complete with victory curls and retro kitten heels and red lipstick.

Why can’t larger women be presented as sexy without such caricature crap?

Where is the transphobia? If there is transphobia report it to MNHQ they are good at deleting such posts.

This is why I don’t buy Snag Tights. I used to quite like them. They did decent basic tights that stayed in place. As a plus size woman I appreciate that.

Nowadays, they constantly fill my Facebook feed with creepy pictures of big women in lingerie and drag queens. Yes, I’ve tried to block them. They come back. Clearly, they want to be the most sparkly and special business ever, so I don’t fit into their customer base.

Same for that ugly ass bra company.

Are you OK? You've used 'brainwashed' a LOT.

This, I hate their porny ads.

Saying this is about 'transphobia' is suggesting trans people are paedophiles and tend to dress up as lolitas. That is what the defenders of this are doing.

Which is far more offensive to transgender people suggesting this is so normal for transpeople to dress like this.

It's actually offensive to the trans community. The defenders of this paedophilia/paraphilia/lolita 'cosplay' should actually have a think about that one.

And yet Grayson Perry is a national treasure.

@HailAdrian Sorry the truth hurts....

Well put.

I don't think comments have been transphobic.