Yep. Just the same old women-hating corporate overlords repackaged for an authenticity-gobbling niche.

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.

Yes.

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.

I’ve been saying for a long time that there needs to be a reckoning for so called “liberal men” who are quite often sexist and misogynist and not called to account for it in any way.

I spent my teens in the same area as the founders (Ottawa/Montréal), and saw Vice grow from a street mag into what it is today. None of these problems is due to their rapid growth. (They’ve been at it for decades.)

There was a holy triumvirate of Vice, American Apparel and Terry Richardson. And, unfortunately, at one time, a lot of clueless young women willing to play along because they thought it would get them into the Boys’ Club.

I think they mean that, since they have gotten more popular, they think that’s the only reason people have a problem with their shit.

Sadly, I feel like Greg Howard’s just the tip of the iceberg for both Gawker Media and NYT...

Seriously though, this doesn’t surprise me. In sexual harassment prevention exercises, men and women will see the same scenario, but where women will rate a behavior as toxic, men will rate it not so great or tolerable.

I think they meant their penises. Because that’s the only thing that makes sense here.

...we have failed as a company to create a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone, especially women, can feel respected and thrive.

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…

the gentlest of reminders

I am so tired. 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’m tired of women’s bodies being commodified and used to reinforce the money…

“Rapid growth”? And that has WHAT to do with it, please??

Nice prelude to an impending Greg Howard exposé, no?

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”

Oh, she will. It will be delicious. Her little Nazi soul will scream in distress.

Back in the days of the colonies, when slavery made us great. Black slaves, particularly.