The first time I saw an ad for American Apparel, I wondered how it jibed with its branding. I wondered what cognitive dissonance led to the juxtaposition of those images with supposed liberal and liberated values. Well, the truth emerged eventually.
Melissa Ulto
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Sometimes it’s just so exhausting.
No, she said she regretted the Wrecking Ball video and riding around naked on it, because once you’ve been shot riding around naked on a wrecking ball, that shit is forever, but she never addressed the red thong bodysuit pulled up her pudenda, or the labia-exposing micro Daisy Dukes while she squats and sucks her…
Thank you! Exactly. I’m really profoundly tired of hearing from ‘liberal’ men that all of this is ‘no big deal’ or ‘what sexism’ or ‘the woman card.’ I mean, are you shitting me with this crap? It’s interesting how people who are supposed to be allies are clearly, so clearly the same racist sexist asses that they say…
There needs to be a reckoning, period. Doesn’t matter the political ideology or even the gender - I am also quite done with the women perpetuating/enabling misogynistic b.s., such as the winner who went on a FB rant yesterday about how “manipulative” women who come forward about sexual harrassment are in fact the ones…
Did Miley Cyrus ever address the reality of Terry Richardson?
They believe so long as they’re pro-choice, they’ve got enough ally coins stored up for sex. And they don’t like it when they get told where to go.
Also, apologizing under duress only after you get caught and your reputation is up in flames and everyone is treating you like you were poking Alien Goo and have eyeworms now, just doesn’t mean very much.
“these assholes”
Urban Outfitters is another one. The most toxic hipster-bro corporate culture. I was pretty high up there about 7 years ago and it was a stifling misogynistic environment which is why I left. I heard from friends who recently left Urban that after lots of lawsuits, a change of CEO, and “restructuring” it’s better, but…
Yep. Just the same old women-hating corporate overlords repackaged for an authenticity-gobbling niche.
No one on here is going to believe me, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Pod Save America is next. Those Obama Bros cannot resist manterrupting whenever a woman is on. Like Chris Matthews, I don’t know why they bother having guests.
I feel like I’ve been shouting into the void for years that a lot of these cultural touchstones for cool, hip youth (Vice, American Apparel, etc) are the same old toxic and misogynistic tropes wrapped up in a new aesthetic.
I could not agree more. No one gives me more pushback on getting rid of problematic shit than the “liberal” men in my life. They cling to their self-righteousness and perpetuate the problem. I’m very done with coddling them.
Wow, a channel dominated by male hosted shows has a sexual harassment problem?
I will never stop reveling in schadenfreude over the fact that the founding Vice jackholes have turned into the exact things they once pretended to be the opposite of — bloated businessmen one hooker and a dry martini away from a coronary. Their “don’t” became a “do” by virtue of their own entitled hypocrisy.…
How is it that males continue to succeed in changing, altering, making others believe in the “narrative” of “I didn’t do it?” I can’t even trust men who claim to be “allies” any more. Men have raped us , sold us, and nary shed a tear after we die giving birth to their children. JC, One of my high school friends died…
I read it as they didn’t know they weren’t supposed to ask a female employee what color her nipples were or besmirch a female reporter’s reputation by saying she slept with a source (which is what they would have done, is my guess).
They attribute the endemic sexism to “a) our ignorance, b) the inability to see the impact of our rapid growth, and c) the internal dysfunction that ensued”