Balenciaga Under Fire for Featuring Toddlers Holding Toys in Bondage, Surrounded by Sex Toys
“The entire campaign sexualizes children, period. It is child exploitation, period. And it feeds and normalizes a culture that is dark and depraved.”
***UPDATE Balenciaga issued a non-apology because someone approved the pictures and put them in the campaign.
Luxury brand Balenciaga featured a photo shoot with toddlers surrounded by sex toys and holding toys wrapped in bondage.
I have no words. Why anyone would think this is okay even if the toddlers do not know anything about the items?
I honestly only knew of the brand because it was the last thing Myrtle said in American Horror Story: Apocalypse.
The Balenciaga ad is disgusting. Toddlers posing with BDSM sex toys and alcohol. Hiding in plain sight a Supreme Court case involving a federal child porn law… Stop sexualizing kids to sell your ugly overpriced crap. #Balenciaga pic.twitter.com/hTNJ4TD6od
— Alison H.Centofante (@AlisonHowardC) November 21, 2022
It looks like Balenciaga took down the pictures. I don’t know where the company would have put it on the webpage or if it belonged to a specific campaign.
From Fox News:
The photographer for the ad campaign, Gabriele Galimberti, said the images were part of a project series called “Toy Stories,” according to his Instagram page. The images, which now appear to be mostly scrubbed from the global brand’s website, sparked outrage from conservative activists.
Penny Nance, CEO of Concerned Women for America, a conservative women’s rights group, called the images “exploitive propaganda.”
“This is not about them being provocative and getting attention,” Nance said in an interview with Fox News Digital. “The entire campaign sexualizes children, period. It is child exploitation, period. And it feeds and normalizes a culture that is dark and depraved.”
I looked at Galimberti’s Instagram page and could not find the photos.
Balenciaga left Twitter over Elon Musk’s takeover. It also deleted its posts on Instagram. Mary Morgan, the host of Pop Culture Crisis on YouTube, finds it suspicious:
“Balenciaga recently dropped off of Twitter, and it’s highly suspicious as they just dropped an ad campaign featuring children holding teddy bears in bondage gear and a poorly hidden court document about ‘virtual child p—,’” she wrote to Fox News Digital. “The Balenciaga Instagram account has deleted all posts as well. When a big tech platform finally enforces their rules against the exploitation of children (even under the guise of ‘art’), pay close attention to the brands or individuals who make haste toward the exit.”
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All about normalizing. This started with gay marriage. They move the goal post and you shrugged. Now we are 3 miles from the start line and you go how did we get here?
Have you gotten a look at the trans leadership in Biden administration and the pentagon?
Are we certain those pictures are not from Biden’s Delaware basement or outbuilding?
A 2 nanosecond glance before hurling.
I feel like the proverbial frog in a pot of water being heated.
Groomers Gotta Groom
Don’t go blaming us for this crap! This is a separate issue entirely.
You’re comparing gay marriage with the sexualizing of young children? Most child abusers are actually heterosexual males.
Once you deviate from morality, you are a deviant. The “gay rights” movement included NAMBLA right from the start. The gates were open.
Did legalization of same sex marriage have a cultural impact? Sure. Did it create paedophilia? Nope. The thing is most of us don’t care what consenting adults do amongst themselves in their sex life or relationships. Two key words; Adult and Consenting. The regular LGB folks aren’t on board with the weirdo crap anymore than we are for the most part. These folks just wanted to be able to have the same recognition general toleration and benefits as a straight folks. Hell they are fighting to expose these paedophiles and some aspects of trans ideology.
The professional activists and true subversive among the TQIA+ and whatever else got tacked on today are the ones to watch. These folks managed to hitch their wagon of weirdos to the LGB folks to try and free ride off their successful campaign for tolerance. Now the paedophiles have shown up into the light to try the same. These weirdos are truly dangerous. The run of the mill LGB folks are already fighting these weirdos so why not join with with them to keep the weirdos away from the kids?
Thank you. People who think like 2Smart have made it impossible for me to do volunteer work. I am retired, and would like to help my community and have thought about volunteering at the Boys and Girls Club. But, all it takes is one kid to be a smart, Alec and see that I touch them or something similar and I’ve been Amcast with the bed light. I live alone, I don’t list of the conventional music or have conventional tastes. I’m that weirdo loner. I probably end up getting lynched.
Grizz,
No worries. I hate bullies. One important aspect of bullying is seeking to use ostracism to create an other in order to garner implied or explicit societal approval to go after their target.
IOW, bullies depend on the wider society to offer at least tacit approval which confers a patina of legitimacy for the bullying behavior. Some members of society offer explicit approval which only serves to embolden the bully to more aggressive actions.
Maybe go a little Goth, something that subconsciously evokes Dumbledore.
Nobody talks smack about Dumbledore, he’s a cultural hero.
Alinksy to the rescue!
Hell, go for Hagrid!! 😉
Well, honestly he was my first thought… but I’m not a Potterhead, and someone much more into it informed me that evidence for Hagrid’s gayness is severely underwhelming.
I don’t think we should have a problem acknowledging that the “gay community” commonly accepts consent from anybody that has hit puberty regardless of age. I am not saying all gays are statutory rapists or that the straights don’t have this issue.
People shouldn’t be shielded from that criticism because they are gay. It is a real criticism.
That’s fair. If someone is in a position of authority or influence and uses that to groom or coerce then we should call out the individuals who do so.
Where I have an issue is when we start using the tribal language of the left to paint members of a group as guilty. We should reject the concept of tribal/collective guilt. Punish individuals not groups.
Boiling the frog in the cultural pot.
The photographer’s “Toy Stories” series seems to be more of the same. Ace of Spades has an example photo. I’ll let his description speak for itself:
Totally Creepy: Heads should roll
Yeah I saw another article on them – this dude is creepy as all HELL.
But but, yellow man’s tweets are bad!!!!
Lol I don’t know what got over me
Orange, it does the body good!!!
When life hands you lemons…make orange juice!
Happens to all of us sooner or later.
Slippery slope.
I remember that they would call you homophobic just for using those words.
And it was indeed a slippery slope. It was never about “equal rights.”
It was about normalizing abhorrent behaviors.
Wanna be porn actresses becoming fashion icons has its consequences:
Kim Kardashian is Balenciaga’s biggest supporter :
https://pagesix.com/2022/09/01/kim-kardashian-walks-on-water-in-balenciaga-campaign/
Groomers.
Groomers.
Groomers.
Groomers.
Groomers.
Lolita Express.
Groomers.
Groomers.
Groomers.
Groomers.
Epstein Island.
Groomers.
Groomers.
Groomers.
Senile ol child molester.
Groomers.
Groomers.
Drag Queen Story Hour.
Groomers.
I just don’t see a pattern.
You would have to be a biologist to be able to discern a pattern
OK, I analyzed it: definite pattern, increasing exponentially!
Don’t forget those weird cable shows….(why I don’t have cable).
Assuming Twitter begins cracking down on this instead of anti Biden cat memes then watching which advertisers leave will be interesting.
The fashion industry unfortunately has a strong number of LGBT individuals whose goal is that women should always abide the credo that less is more and that every societal and moral envelope should be pushed as far as possible based on the notion that the decadent garbage what one sees in fashion shows winds up on the racks iin stores all over the US
They knew exactly what they were doing.
Normalizing pedophilia has been pushed for decades, some people only noticed recently since they are now so open about it.
Normalizing the elimination of pedophiles should be the new goal.
With prejudice.
Now Balenciaga is trying to deflect by suing the producers.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/balenciaga-sues-producers-bdsm-teddy-bear-pedophilic-ad-campaign