The luxury fashion brand Balenciaga has been under fire recently for its new advertisement which featured children holding teddy bears with bondage gear on them. The designer has since “apologized” but little to no backlash, other than Twitter complaints, has been noted.
If you haven’t seen the images yet, here they are.
the brand "Balenciaga" just did a uh..... interesting... photoshoot for their new products recently which included a very purposely poorly hidden court document about 'virtual child porn'
— shoe (@shoe0nhead) November 21, 2022
normal stuff pic.twitter.com/zjMN5WhZ0s
Not to mention, one of the papers on an image of a cluttered desk appeared to be a court document about "virtual child porn."
Designer Demna, finally addressed the BDSM scandal and apologized on his Instagram page on December 2. He called it a “wrong artistic choice” and vowed to “engage with child protection organizations.” He also said “As much as I would sometimes like to provoke a thought through my work, I would NEVER have an intention to do that with such an awful subject as child abuse that I condemn. Period.”
Balenciaga has apologized and filed a $25 million lawsuit against the producers of one of the ads but the damage is still done and prominent media personalities and outlets couldn’t care less.
Take The View for example. On the November 28 segment, host Alyssa Farah Griffin called the horrific photoshoot a mere “misstep” and host Sunny Hostin commented on the “ugly” products rather than the fact that children were forced to hold such disturbing items.
Similarly, there has been no reports of banks dropping Balenciaga for its disturbing, child exploiting advertisements.
Not many celebrities have even mentioned the situation, nevermind condemned it.
Balenciaga is still active on its Instagram page, Facebook Page, and TikTok page.
And the woke mob, aka “social justice warriors” have barely even scratched the surface of conversation relating to this disturbing campaign.
For contrast, when brands like Goya or Chick-Fil-A post or acknowledge anything un-woke, the media goes haywire and exhausts themselves trying to enact their cancel culture regimes.
When Goya Food’s CEO mentioned praise for President Trump, the company was completely squashed and attacked by social media and newspapers. Chick Fil-A has been called out and canceled numerous times for supporting traditional marriage, Dr. Seuss was completely reprimanded for supposed racial insensitivities and Mr. Potato Head was forced to change his name to Potato Head to help the queers.
Yet, nothing has been done about Balenciaga or brands who support such exploitation of kids.
To make things worse, the parent company of Balenciaga supposedly owns a site that sells as "art" child sex mannequins with erect penises on their face. The site, Christie’s (adult content warning) has one called “Fuck Face” where a toddler is spotted with a penis as his nose. There’s also a piece called “Zygotic” with numerous young, naked girls formed together. A “Four Headed Cockroach Kid” with four female children, one bare butt and two penises. One as a belly button and another at the bridge of two necks. And finally, “Doggy” where two children are sandwiched together and share a pair of legs to emulate what we can assume is the doggy style sex position.
Oher companies are pushing frisky products as well. It was recently brought to my attention that the popular children’s stuffed toy brand, Build-A-Bear Workshop, is selling a Catwoman costume for the plush dolls that features shiny black boots, a leather look-alike body suit, a mask and even a whip for children to use to emulate the overly sexualized, adult character. The company does have other items that may be marketed towards adults including “It’s Wine O’clock Somewhere” bear t-shirt, but regardless, featuring items that are inappropriate for children at a store that was created for children is messed up.
It's disturbing how so many people enjoy treating kids like pawns in their sick, sexual games and its even more disturbing that the media and large corporations are letting them get away with it!
