A "Dear Santa" decoration sign in girl's section of Dillard's stirs up outrage

[davidn3600]

Most girls have long lists for Santa: a bike, an Elsa doll, a brand-new backpack. That sort of thing. Not, we hope, a skinny figure and wads of cash.

But one mom posted on Facebook a photo of this sign, which she saw in a Florida Dillard’s girls department: “Dear Santa, This year please give me a big fat bank account and a slim body. Please don’t mix those two up like you did last year. Thanks.”

The sign was shared more than 400 times, according to WPTV in West Palm Beach, and quickly grew criticism for sending the wrong message. “What would a little girl want with a bank account?” shopper Sally Stewart asked WPTV. “It gives the wrong message about having a slim body. That’s not the message we want to give our kids.”

Dillard’s told WPTV that the sign was put in the Girls department in error, and has since directed all stores to remove the sign from sales floors entirely. Still, Dr. Robyn Silverman, body image expert and author of Good Girls Don’t Get Fat: How Weight Obsessions is Messing Up Our Girls and How We Can Help Them Thrive Despite It, says the sign should never have made it into stores in the first place. “It’s time for retailers to stop making a joke out of women’s body image,” she tells Yahoo Parenting. “If it was placed there by mistake, that’s a really big error. When a sign is posted like that it sends the message that this would be an appropriate thing to wish for, so much so that someone wrote it down, posted it and made sure that they could see it.”

https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/dear-santa-sign-stirs-controversy-102370375437.html




So I guess whoever made the sign and decided it should be put there isn't going to own up to the "error."

[Sherman A1]

1. Opps

Following right on the heels of the Nestle Mexico Tweet about the 43 Students. One suspects it is a busy week for the PR folks in the corporate world. I suspect the memos are flying.......

[Atman]

2. This stuff doesn't happen by accident.

I used to work at the home office side of retail, directly with the display department. We'd send out pretty detailed instructions and schematics as to the placement of each element in a display in order to assure a unified look throughout each store. So this same "error" happened at each Dillard's store? I don't think so. They were just following the instructions provided by the home office.

[smilodon populator]

3. Sarcasm?

This looks kind of subversive to me, intentionally or not. Maybe somebody snuck it in to snark on consumerism and/or body image issues.

[Oktober]

4. Some folks have their outrage eternally set to high...

[kcr]

5. If only we could all be as chill as you...

Life would be great..... Tell us how you do it...........

Is it posting in threads about topics you don't care about on the internet? That makes sense.

[rock]

6. If you think their outrage is high

You should see how thin their skin is!