Don't you mean: hate the people who would buy such products?

But I suppose it's easier to hate a faceless corporation than holding individuals responsible for their own actions, no?

The message is good - credit cards get a LOT of people in trouble. However, the placement of the message is questionable.

Let's see... Who would buy such a thing?
Would it be the twelve year old girl with a twenty dollar a week allowance?
Now granted, it would be the parent's fault for turning a blind eye, but wouldn't some of the blame also go to the provider of the product? 'Cause you know the cashier isn't saying to the twelve year old girl, "you can't buy those because they purvey a message of sexual innuendo".
We don't blame the kids when a drug pusher sells them drugs. Why? Because they aren't responsible for the choices they make. Who do we punish? The pusher.
So I say, let's punish the one who pushes crap on our kids. Let's do what I already do, let's all boycott Wal-Mart.

hahaha....I think Gary missed the point.

Look at the typical clientele of Wal-Mart. Of course they are going to buy things like this. Once white trash, always white trash.

the problem is that wal-mart posits themselves as a "family" corporation with strong republican roots and sensibilities. they can sell those underwear or they can continue to represent themselves as a family-values based business (censored versions of cds and dvds, anybody?), but not both. then again, does the average wal-mart shopper give a crap about the politics of wal-mart? maybe not...

@ jkp: why are you so eager to defend Wal-Mart? Do you work for Wal-Mart? Do you own Wal-Mart stock? Are you philosophically pro-corporate-power?

In addition to "hating" the people "who would buy such products," why can't we also hate the people who came up with such products, promote them and profit from them?

Wal-Mart is one of those people. It may not have a face, but it is a legal person with a hell of a lot more power than you or I will ever have. Why is someone always trying to let the big fish off the hook?

I think Wal-Mart walk's a fine line, in terms of being edgy and American style and family freindly. They sell stuff that's contemporary...I dont know. Me,I'd like to go to Wal-Mart and get my groceries and also some low end, high quality bondage gear.You wonder what Sam Walton would think of that?

Come on Franklin contemporary is not quite the right word just cause they got a collection of the world biggest pile of misc. crap u don't REALLY need but THINK you want. Although it is true they are the largest seller of ORGANICS-in the world, much less basically control the general produce market. Consider the movie WALMART-The High Cost of Low Prices-, which pretty much lays it on the line. A qoute from a poor asian woman after an 18hour sweat shift with no air in a room packed with 100's of workers for a couple measly bucks said'Respectable customer, why do you think your prices are so low??" A chunk of ice the size of Alaska melts in one year (apox 1/5 of what's left)and here I am wrting my time away @ a pair of absurd panties created by a corp. with nothing less to do than burn away the last fringe of culture before the market spins out of control due to the waste and profittering they created to sell one more glob of chem;s for 2.96, sad... Shop at Walmart for one thing only...a map out of the town where it is your best option for anything, particularly groceries/food, buy local, buy fresh.

The unstated part of the message:

"Who needs credit cards when you've got a pussy?"

That's why the panties are inappropriate for 12-year-olds. (Or even 30-year-olds, for that matter.)

What I like about Wal-Mart is that A.)they give job's to people whom would be unemployable in a standard retail enviornment i.e. White kids covered in tatoos and studs and of couse the Brother's from downtown and B}the classless element of shopping there.No middleclass people looking down their nose at you because one work's outdoors for a living and likes camoflage clothing. No one put's on airs at Wal-Mart,it's my America, plus I shop at 5 Am to see less Americans. If they want to sell crotch-less panties to 10 year's old's, that really doesnt bother me too much.

As if Mattel wasn't bad enough for you people...literally poisoning your children with generous coatings GHB and toxic levels of lead on toys bought at Walmart! Now they (corporations) are literally poisoning the mental health of your children with messages such as that on underwear. I would love to watch a politician try to defend the right of the corporation to market such a product. I suppose the only way to get a Republican family-minded business man's attention would be to put the same message on a pair of boy's briefs...hahaha. Seriously, wake up, you dolts, watch the movie and stop buying crap from a crap supplier. Merry Christmas.

Well I work at Walmart and I can tell you its not all bad. Yea you have stupid junk like those panties, which are offensive to me cause I'm a prudish 23 year old married woman, but they do as one commenter stated. They give jobs to people who wouldn't have jobs otherwise. AKA....college students who NEED to work the nights and the late shift because they take classes during the day. They also give jobs at a better pay rate than most of us small-town residents can find elsewhere. The pay rate for a Factory worker in my town is $8 per hour. The pay rate that I, as a brand new employee, earn is $7 per hour. For the first four years of my work history in this town I earned at the most...$6.25 per hour. How's that for crappy earnings.

But don't blame the everyday employee because of what the corporation does....blame capitalism itself. And the oversexed teens of the millennium.