Women Deserve Better Than Victoria’s Secret
Tags: Social Justice, Transgender, LGBTQ, Equality, Women

Here’s a list of lingerie brands that aren’t Victoria’s Secret:

Lively

Playful Promises

Lane Bryant

Savage x Fenty

Torrid

These are the brands I found doing a quick Google search.

Victoria’s Secret has every right to exclude whoever they want from walking in their runway shows and marketing ads.

However, as a customer every woman also carries a right not to support them. Nobody has to buy anything from VS. If you don’t agree with the direction they’re going, don’t support the company. If you’re a plus–size woman or a transwoman, they aren’t the only company that sells sexy women undergarments.

Now, there are so many other companies that were created by women for women. You don’t have to go purchase what some old, white men think is sexy on stick–figured women.

This type of exclusion in marketing campaigns, magazines, TV shows, and movies attacks womens’ self–esteem. Young women grow up hating their bodies because all they see on social media, computer screens, and TVs is slim women with “thigh gaps.” Some women agonize about how much they eat because they’re terrified of gaining weight. They starve themselves and exercise to the point where it’s unhealthy. They begin to hate themselves and dread looking in the mirror.

Every female friend that I know has admitted to worrying about their weight and had a difficult time with their self esteem and appearance at some point in their life. They have admitted to wishing that they could lose weight or change something about their appearance. Exclusion like what Victoria’s Secret has been doing pokes holes in womens’ confidence.

Take a look at the most recent Victoria’s Secret ad or runway show.

How many times do you actually see women that size in person? How many times do you actually see women that size just walking down the street or in your nearest Starbucks? Victoria’s Secret refuses to acknowledge the majority of women. They don’t just ignore fat and transwomen. They ignore women over 30, women in wheelchairs, women that have scars, women that have hyperpigmentation and acne, women that have alopecia, and the list goes on and on.

Women have so much economic power.

In 1974, women could barely get a credit card in their own name. It isn’t like that anymore.

Women control 51% of wealth. — Forbes, 2017

Over half of the wealth is held by women. Women also earn most of the bachelor, masters, and doctorate degrees. Women are vividly present in the workforce. Women hold various management positions. They are doctors, surgeons, lawyers, judges, police officers, fire–women, web developers, app developers, program developers, designers, writers, painters, scientists, teachers, politicians, and anything else they want to be.

If you’re bigger than a jerky stick, please don’t feel like you aren’t beautiful because of an over–hyped brand.

Please don’t feel left out because VS doesn’t want to include women your size in their campaigns. There are so many other brands that don’t hesitate to include all women.

You deserve to feel sexy too. You deserve to have some seductive underwear as well if you want some. There is a company out there that caters to all of your curves.

Transwomen, you are beautiful. Razek’s idea of beauty doesn’t matter. His time is just about up. Please don’t let companies like this — companies that choose to stand in their pile of filthy ignorance — make you feel like less of a woman. You are stunning and if you want to purchase some underwear that will show off all the beauty you possess, there are other lingerie brands.

Men, your girlfriend or wife deserves better than VS. Honestly, purchasing from a brand that is created with the women in mind has to be better than purchasing from a brand that only markets to an extremely specific group of women. Wouldn’t you rather give her a comfortable, sexy bra that she’ll love rather than something you saw on a Google picture from a runway show that might not even fit her?

Women deserve better than Victoria’s Secret. They deserve to be included no matter their size. They deserve to be included whether they’re cis or trans. They deserve something that is truly designed for them. They deserve better, and other brands are better. It’s time to support them.

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