My email to General Growth Properties CEO

By: American Decency Staff

I just emailed the following message to two administrators with General Growth Properties regarding Victoria's Secret's present pornographic displays. =================================== January 30, 2008 Dear Mr. Bucksbaum and Mr. Zimmerman: Are these displays acceptable to you? I will be making note of these over these coming months. [As we move to the Christmas shopping season.] Let's sit down and talk and get beyond this kind of trash at the public shopping mall. This is so degrading and destructive on many fronts. Sincerely, Bill Johnson ============================ Look. I know we sound like a broken record. But, these entrepreneurs are dirtying general shopping centers from coast to coast with pornography. We refuse to just give up our public shopping malls to pornography! What about you? Disclaimer. Victoria's Secret's Valentines display at a mall near you. If you don't believe it, then seeing is believing. https://americandecency.org/main.php?f=updates_new/2008/January/01.30a.08 Take a stand. Let Mr. John Bucksbaum know. Contact: General Growth Properties Mr. John Bucksbaum, CEO 110 N. Wacker Dr. Chicago, IL 60606 Telephone: 312-960-5000 Email: John.Bucksbaum@generalgrowth.com http://www.ggp.com/Contactus.aspx General Growth Properties has approximately 208 mall entities located from California to Maine. For a full list of General Growth Properties locations see: http://www.generalgrowth.com/Index.asp ================================== If you have investments in any of the following 10 mutual funds then you have dollars supporting Victoria's Secret (Limited Brands). You may want to consider transferring to THE TIMOTHY PLAN -morally screened mutual funds that have zero tolerance for investments in Victoria's Secrets or any other company linked to pornography or anti-family entertainment. You can contact www.timothyplan.com or call them at 1-800-846-7526. What about your mutual funds? [NOTE SEVERAL CHANGES BELOW] — ***INVESTMENT COMPANY OF AMERICA ***WASHINGTON MUTUAL INVESTORS FUND ***GROWTH FUND OF AMERICA INC ***OAKMARK SELECT FUND ***OAKMARK FUND ***HARTFORD CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND ***HOTCHKISS AND WILEY MID-CAP VALUE FUND ***RS INVESTMENT TRUST-VALUE FUND ***FUNDAMENTAL INVESTORS INC ***HARTFORD CAPITAL APPRECIATION HLS FUND, INC. ============================= Take Action: (1) Don't spend a single dollar with Victoria's Secret or its subsidiaries (2) Urge others to do the same. Contact us for a Victoria's Secret bumper sticker and display it in a prominent place – like your bumper. "Victoria's Dirty Secret: PORNOGRAPHY" "Victoria: Keep Your Secrets Covered" Call or email us at: 1-888-733-2326 or email: kimberly@americandecency.org (3) CONTACT VICTORIA'S SECRET and speak out locally where concerns exist — Victoria's Secret Grace A. Nichols 4 Limited Pkwy. East Reynoldsburg, OH 43068 Phone: 614-577-7000 Fax: 614-577-7047 email: http://www2.victoriassecret.com/html/custsrvc/contact/comments/ Email service@victoriassecret.com The Limited (owns Victoria's Secret, Bath & Body Works, White Barn Candle Company, Express) Leslie Wexner, CEO Three Limited Parkway Columbus, OH 43230 800-756-4449 SAMPLE LETTER TO VICTORIA'S SECRET Dear Modesty, public civility and decency remain character qualities that millions of American mothers and fathers uphold and strive to instill in their children. We cherish our youth. We work hard to provide good examples, attempting to teach them to discern between good and bad – right and wrong – decent and indecent. We are alarmed, undermined, and upset when we take our family to the local mall and are confronted with incredibly aggressive sexual advertising on Victoria's Secret window and wall displays and mannequins. Your public advertisements are offensive and obnoxious. I urge you to discontinue your use of erotic, pornographic wall and window displays in mall stores, in your publications, and television ads. I await your response as I determine the course of action I anticipate having to take. Sincerely, ======================== ———————————————————————

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