Discuss “Local young women refuse to be objectified”

?Who needs brains when you have these??

That?s the slogan on one of two T-shirts Abercrombie & Fitch will no longer sell after the retailer conceded to a group of western Pennsylvania high school students. The students? ?girl-cott? sent the message: We won?t stand for this.

National television media jumped on the story ? some of the girls were interviewed on CNN and the Today Show, and others across the country took up the protest. The media?s interest in the story undoubtedly played a major role in the boycott?s success.

The young women, 23 members of the Allegheny County Girls as Grantmakers program, should be applauded. They were assertive in standing up against a national corporation that had promulgated what they perceived to be ?anti-girl?...