And I bet their mistake in that situation was targeting a company like Lucky Brand that has lawyers, as opposed to a struggling independent artist.

Anyone else notice the languages they decided to take out.

“Let’s make a feminist shirt that Ivanka Trump can wear.” - Forever 21

For whatever it’s worth, I just purchased a t from Word.

When I worked at Lucky Brand Jeans in 2006-ish, a logo I hand drew for them showed up on a tote bag for sale at Forever 21. After a cease and desist letter, they removed the bag from shelves, removed the labels from the inventory and sent us all the bags. This is their typical routine, they consider it part of the…

So used to seeing them knock off smaller designers but this is beyond. They knocked off a charity fundraiser

So much this. My mother heads up a government department library - the number of times she is dismissed as a “librarian” while her male colleagues (who report to her) are referred to as “director” still astounds me. She though is entirely used to it - one colleague didn’t correct the politician who made the mistake,…

That’s still problematic, no? Just like if they had just one woman that would have been almost as problematic as having no women.

Because women are not seen as professionals.

No black photographers either. In fact, ‘Middle East and Africa’ amount to four photographers: none black.

Just seems shitty and lazy.

Oh for fuckSAKE, brosephines. Look, cop to it, if you actually invited any female photographers at all, you invited ONE, and she couldn’t attend, and you had no Backup Token.

Wow, that’s pretty ridiculous. I’ve worked as a technician for photography companies for the last 15 years, and in my experience, women noticeably outnumber men in the field . How could something like that even happen accidentally?

It’s a good thing that isn’t the first step or anywhere close to it, because if I had to start by admitting how much I fucked up, I would have quit before I started.

Yeah, the god emphasis was one of my biggest hurdles in recovery. I used to roll my eyes during the serenity prayer every time. I ended up getting a book on 12 steps for atheists, which kind of explained the role the “god”/higher power placeholder plays in the process and that started warming me up to it. Eventually…

That is good, reminds me of the serenity prayer. don’t super like the use of god but I do like the sentiment.

Yeah exactly, that’s how I feel too.

But also: you’re completely right that drugs are different—I hate when people try to make non-substance-abuse related problems the same as drug addiction.

As an addict, I can’t decide if I think sex addiction is a thing. On one hand it’s a compulsion that can negatively impact your life, but you can say that about a lot of things. Plus it seems like the go to defense for douchbag guys that can’t keep it in their pants.

Nope. He didn’t want her hair, he wanted the voyeurism of seeing her pain and shock and outrage as someone yanked her hair. Cuz he’s a filthy little monster.