american apparel
i own a handful of american apparel t-shirts (some bought directly from the montreal store and others from giant robot) and 6 pairs of underwear, i was always felt a little uneasy about the whole "we're sweatshop free" slant to the company because i felt it a bit of a slant.
plus, i wasn't digging the vice magazine aesthetic. it's because i don't get the "raw magnificent" of the street. whenever i saw dov charney shilling his goods on the tv, i felt put upon, like it was a spike jonze schtick or something.
http://www.nosweatshop.org/americanapparel.htm
"Charney's sexual antics with his younger employees are obviously inappropriate because they contribute to an environment of sexual harassment. But Charney laughs at such a notion, attributing ideas like sexual harassment to a "victim culture" among women. "Out of a thousand sexual harassment claims, how many do you think are exploitative?" he asks. In any case, "women initiate most domestic violence," he said."
this makes my stomach turn. women initiate most domestic violence?!? i'm pretty sure that bitch did not run into your fist.
similar logic is found behind statements like "she asked for it". why do rapists say this? when she asked for her life or when she asked you to stop, did you?
there's on the front page of today's globe and mail about a trial in new westminister, british columbia. today is the first day of jury deliberations of rajinder atwal who is charged with second-degree murder of his daughter. he was accused of fatally stabbing her four times because she refused to break up her boyfriend who was white. his explanation is that she stabbed herself in a fit of passion or some bullshit like that. i think it's fairly difficult for a person to fatally stab themselves. even with seppuku, someone else has to finish you off.
oddly, this reminds me of the times that my dad would threaten to shave off my hair and then parade me around to punish me for something. this later escalated to threats of him taking me back to toronto against my will and locking me in my bedroom for dating bryan. not that the hair stuff wasn't wrong or threatening but it didn't bother me as much as being kidnapped. i found the physical threat (and the subtext of ownership) particularly unsettling. having my head shaved would have been annoying but i found it laughable. there's something distinctively archaic about it because i don't know if you know this but with my long hair, i was quite the fair maiden.
plus, i wasn't digging the vice magazine aesthetic. it's because i don't get the "raw magnificent" of the street. whenever i saw dov charney shilling his goods on the tv, i felt put upon, like it was a spike jonze schtick or something.
http://www.nosweatshop.org/americanapparel.htm
"Charney's sexual antics with his younger employees are obviously inappropriate because they contribute to an environment of sexual harassment. But Charney laughs at such a notion, attributing ideas like sexual harassment to a "victim culture" among women. "Out of a thousand sexual harassment claims, how many do you think are exploitative?" he asks. In any case, "women initiate most domestic violence," he said."
this makes my stomach turn. women initiate most domestic violence?!? i'm pretty sure that bitch did not run into your fist.
similar logic is found behind statements like "she asked for it". why do rapists say this? when she asked for her life or when she asked you to stop, did you?
there's on the front page of today's globe and mail about a trial in new westminister, british columbia. today is the first day of jury deliberations of rajinder atwal who is charged with second-degree murder of his daughter. he was accused of fatally stabbing her four times because she refused to break up her boyfriend who was white. his explanation is that she stabbed herself in a fit of passion or some bullshit like that. i think it's fairly difficult for a person to fatally stab themselves. even with seppuku, someone else has to finish you off.
oddly, this reminds me of the times that my dad would threaten to shave off my hair and then parade me around to punish me for something. this later escalated to threats of him taking me back to toronto against my will and locking me in my bedroom for dating bryan. not that the hair stuff wasn't wrong or threatening but it didn't bother me as much as being kidnapped. i found the physical threat (and the subtext of ownership) particularly unsettling. having my head shaved would have been annoying but i found it laughable. there's something distinctively archaic about it because i don't know if you know this but with my long hair, i was quite the fair maiden.