Bloggers Cause Wal-Mart To Remove A...Product  
Saturday, December 15th, 2007

There are all sorts of ways that headline could have gone wrong, so I played it safe.  One of the sites on our News & Blogroll, Feministing, just did some awesome underwear activism!  One of Feministing's readers submitted a photo of a pair of juniors panties at Wal-Mart that say on the front, "Who needs credit cards..."  Yes, who needs to worry about bank accounts when you can simply use your...wait a minute!!  Feministing blogger Jessica wrote, "There's nothing quite like telling adolescent girls that they don't need to worry about finances since they have their very own moneypot between their legs."

Feministing followed it up with the contact numbers for Wal-Mart's corporate offices, and asked readers to call and complain.  The panties, which were sold for $2.96 at your local Wal-Mart, got pulled from stores just one day later.

"We have directed our stores to remove this merchandise from our shelves," Linda Brown Blakely, a spokeswoman for Wal-Mart announced.

How long have the undies been selling there, I think, is the question?

"File this away for the 'online activist isn't real life activism' rebuttal files," Feministing posted.  W00t!  I told you we have the best News & Blogroll.  Okay, I didn't, but I'm telling you now.

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