Spectre Of Size 12 Woman Having Sex Forces Fox And ABC To Suddenly Realize They Have Standards

Here is the Lane Bryant ad (for underwear!) (worn by and marketed to plus-sized women!) that was apparently too hot for airing during Dancing With The Stars and American Idol because it showed a lady heading off for a “lunch” while wearing only a trenchcoat, some lingerie, and a pair of shoes. Whether or not this is some big publicity stunt that the plus-sized fashion retailer devised is up for debate. Maybe the standards and practices departments at ABC and Fox are simply anti-nooners in general! But it should be known that the store has put up an irritable blog post about the whole thing that also manages to call out those freaky-annoying Playtex commercials.

We knew the ads were sexy, but they are not salacious. Our new commercials represent the sensuality of the curvy woman who has more to show the world than the typical waif-like lingerie model. What we didn’t know was that the networks, which regularly run Victoria’s Secret and Playtex advertising on the very shows from which we’re restricted, would object to a different view of beauty. If Victoria’s Secret and Playtex can run ads at any time during the 9pm to 10pm hour, why is Lane Bryant restricted only to the final 10 minutes?

It should be noted that the Playtex ads don’t merely show waiflike women, although the ads that have made it to television are pretty “unsexy.” For comparison’s sake, here is a video that shows off the outfit that Pamela Anderson wore while twirling and pouting her way through last week’s Dancing With The Stars. I guess it has a longer hemline than the trench?

(Oh and by the way, in case you were wondering? Lane Bryant is no longer a corporate sister of Victoria’s Secret. Both were owned by the mall-monopolizing Limited Brands until 2002, when LB was spun off to Charming Shoppes. I was all set to believe that this was some sort of crazy cross-promotion in which VS and LB would eventually come together and form a Voltron of bra-selling, but alas!)

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