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May 05, 2008

Milfs Shocked By Urban Outfitters

This story rises above the usual one of someone-looks-in-a-place-that-appeals-to-young-adults-who-claim-to-be-sophisticated and finds things-that-don't-appeal-to-middle-aged-moms only because of the middle-aged mom's name: Marci Milfs. Sorry, no photo of the offended Milfs is provided. Mrs. Milfs went in to the Urban Outfitters in Lynwood, Washington, and dug into some books to find Porn For Women and Pornogami: A Guide to the Ancient Art of Paper-Folding for Adults. I couldn't find the books on Urban Outfitters' own site, so those are Amazon links. You can browse some of the contents of the books at Amazon and see that the books are intended as humor. Here, for example, is an image from Pornogami:
origami sperm

Milfs was so appalled that she is preparing to file a complaint with the city of Lynnwood, and has already aired her frustrations to State Rep. Norma Smith, R-Clinton, and organizations including Morality in Media, Concerned Women of America and the American Family Association.

She's a busy woman, as you can see, but as an afterthought "She also called Urban Outfitters' corporate office in Philadelphia." That's probably why she didn't have time to complain about the store's high prices for clothing of dubious quality.

Urban Outfitters, for its part, presents a charmingly old fashioned approach to public relations: "A woman who answered the phone at the company's corporate office said Urban Outfitters responds only to media inquiries of its choosing and that interview requests must be mailed to corporate headquarters." I assume that inquiries must be hand-written and exhibit good penmanship.

Filed under Shopping | permalink | May 5, 2008 at 12:24 PM

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