The View: Appalled by Ugly Clothes, Not Kids Posed With 'Bondage Gear'

Nicholas Fondacaro | November 28, 2022
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As part of their Monday show, The View voiced outrage that images of kids made to pose with “bondage gear” would be used to oppose grooming, drag queens, and gender transitions for kids. They were more appalled that the kids were made to pose with “ugly” clothes rather than them being made to pose with sexually explicit items they admit they can’t show on TV.

“So, fashion house Balenciaga, a very, you know, posh, is under fire for a controversial fetish-themed ad campaign featuring child models,” co-host Joy Behar explained the situation. “Balenciaga blames the production company for the ads. They have a kid posing with S&M stuff. But the set designer says Balenciaga executives were on the set; they knew what was happening.”

Faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin didn’t hesitate to lash out at the “far-right” for using this incident to warn the public of child exploitation. She said the ad campaign was “particularly distasteful in this moment” because “there's growing anti-LGBTQ sentiment right now and how it's being framed is as portraying, you know, trans people as groomers.”

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