Staff at Woolworths baffled by fuss over the little girl’s bed called Lolita

[muriel_volestrangler]

Woolworths has withdrawn bedroom furniture for young girls bearing the sexually charged name Lolita after a campaign waged by a mothers’ online chat room.

The Lolita Midsleeper Combi, a whitewashed wooden bed with pull-out desk and cupboard intended for girls aged about 6, was on sale on the Woolworths website for £395.

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Whereas many mothers were familiar with Vladimir Nabokov and his famous novel, it seems that the Woolworths staff were not. At first they were baffled by the fuss. A spokesman for the company told The Times: “What seems to have happened is the staff who run the website had never heard of Lolita, and to be honest no one else here had either. We had to look it up on Wikipedia. But we certainly know who she is now.”
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At first the store refused to withdraw the product. It said that although it wanted to appeal to the family market, “we also have to respond to customer demands and follow current trends”.

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article3285597.ece

Jeez, dumb staff, and who the hell chose the name in the first place?

[redqueen]

1. Either an illiterate person or a reeeeally creepy person.