Maybe it's my monitor, but I really can't tell from this picture which is the mentally challenged one.

Forgive me if I have written this before. A long time ago, I was watching a TV show about sex reassignment surgery. The doctors were doing "top" surgery with the pectoral area of the patient exposed surrounded by fabric. The surgeon made a cut around the areola and just as they were stuffing the small implant into…

Yeah, but why buy new stuff all the time? Consumerism is killing the planet and making us broke and unhappy. Kick the gotta have new stuff habit.

"It's just lip service." Exactly! Until they start doing anything to make the conditions better in their sweatshops or actually using a manufacturer that doesn't make their employees work under sweat shop conditions, then they are still awful.

Except that Gap just refused to pay into a restitution fund for the 1000 workers killed in Bangladesh making their clothes. There is no insurance for those people and hundreds are paralyzed or lost limbs. Shameful. I won't give them a dime. This seems nice but it is just lip service.

Since you see fit to theorize the personality of a total stranger on the internet, let me take a turn:

Noooo, they're not racist, they're "diverse," so diverse that they've outsourced all of their labor to other countries, where they're paid in pocket change. Gap has been linked to sweatshop labor in about 6 countries. Last September, in Bangladesh, there were riots amongst employees (from several companies, not just…

Great campaign and subsequent response to racist fucktards, for sure, but let's not get all "YAY, GAP!" just yet. There are plenty of supply chain/labor issues to negate this warm and fuzzy move.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/16/wor…

Also, doesn't the fact that they have locations open on Thanksgiving show that they don't treat their retail employees so well?

Okay, so they're not completely, 100% terrible. (How, exactly, is the company "trying to come back from that"? Can you share any evidence that they're trying to improve their sweatshops?) The Gap still treats the people who produce clothing horribly - so maybe they're only 80% terrible? What do you think is an…

Actually, if you are a conscious consumer you might want to consider boycotting the Gap. This move was good PR but they still abuse the impoverished workers who make their clothes. http://rabble.ca/news/2013/11/h…

I feel like if more people who weren't affected by breast cancer could see how brutal the disease can be, physically, that there would be less dumb stuff like that "motorboating for breast cancer" thing that was on Gawker and Jez a while back. Seeing breast cancer for what it can really do to a woman's body sucks the…

The Gap produces its clothing in horrible sweatshop conditions and treats its workers poorly. But hey, its ads feature celebrities who are young and beautiful but not always white, so they must be wonderful people! I want to go buy a $100 sweatshop-made shirt right now!

I'm sorry to be one of those people. I mean, this is awesome and everything and it's cool that they stuck up for him but there are thousands of people living in hell that make their clothes every day and they do nothing to help these people. https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/…

Get over what exactly?

Like wearing clothing and taking modern medicine.

"A man's value is mainly determined by his resources, intellect, and character."

I'm picking up what you're laying down. My family has been doing experience gifts for years. Because who needs more stuff? It's not a complete corporate boycott but it stops us from amassing shit we don't need.
But I also live across the continent from them. So my parents are getting snow shoes to help with their…

Don't buy any gifts. We need to ween ourselves from this corporate bullshit. How about you spend a pleasant day with her, catch up, bond, and try to make the relationship closer and stronger instead of buying her a shitty blender and ignoring her until Mother's Day. Fuck this gift paradigm and fuck this article for…

Sugarpie, when I'm working out six days a week and at optimum body fat percentage, I'm 170 pounds at 5-foot-8. It's almost as if people come in different shapes and sizes, or something.