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So I saw a post on how American Apparel markets unisex clothing, but I couldn’t actually find a unisex section on their website. I did however notice this. The sweatshirts one is particularly illuminating.
Selling men’s clothes to men, and selling women’s bodies to… ?
American Apparel is really fucking horrible for many, many reasons, but here’s another example.
American Apparel’s advertising is a PERFECT example of the way that we sell products to men through advertisements and sell women’s bodies to men even though they’re being used in advertisements for women’s products. It’s a fantastic example of how the female body is treated differently than the male body, how it’s seen as intrinsically sexual, and how this is totally normalized within our culture. To be clear: i’m not saying there’s anything wrong with women’s bodies being sexual, or women being seen as sexual beings. We are sexual beings! What I am saying is that there’s something deeply problematic when that sexualizing is only happening for women, and when that sexuality turns into objectification through a male gaze. To illustrate, here’s a screencap from the AA homepage right now:
because a picture of a woman’s ass that she is spreading with her fingers and the slogan ‘get wet’ is not an objectification of women’s bodies for the male gaze AT ALL, and we would totally see these types of images and ads for male swimsuits too! -________-
Yeah, if you’re still spending your money there, stop.
people always want to fight me over this but they are terrible for 500 different reasons..
Just wanted to say that while I agree AA’s marketing is terrible and sexist and body shaming, they are also really great to their employees that manufacture their products. They are definitely a flawed company, but I would rather choose clothing from a sexist company that doesn’t use sweatshops than a (slightly) less sexist company that does use sweatshops.
Right, they’re really such great fucking employers, aren’t they?
Dov Charney doesn’t give a flying fuck about consent, and that’s among the many many grievances that have been publicly aired against the company and it’s CEO.
Personally, I’d rather choose clothing from a company that neither exploits nor abuses it’s employees (or anyone, for that matter). It is not okay that we are complacent with choosing the lesser of two evils rather than working toward eliminating the evils for better, non-abusive & non-exploitative, options.
The way Dov Charney operates may not employ sweatshops, but that does not make when he and his company do acceptable.
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Oh Data, I love you.
LOL DATA LOOKED AT PORN
BEST COSPLAY EVER
that’s Lindsey Stirling. She’s playing around in the costume she wore in the video for her Zelda medley. The fact that tumblr is not more in love with this woman surprises the fuck out of me
she has the awesome music uwu
she has awesome everything.
This is actually from a video by Freddie W, called Legend of Zelda: Pot Smasher. It’s pretty great.
Erik Olson
I Fucking Love Space, 2011
oil on panel, 48 x 36 inchesMercury, 2011
oil on panel, 48 x 36 inchesVenus, 2011
oil on panel, 48 x 36 inchesEarth, 2011
oil on canvas, 72 x 84 inchesMars, Fear & Dread, 2011
oil on panel, 48 x 36 inchesJupiter, 2011
oil on panel, 48 x 36 inchesSaturn, 2011
oil on panel, 48 x 36 inchesUranus, 2011
oil on panel, 48 x 36 inchesNeptune, 2011
oil on panel, 48 x 36 inchesThe Gateway (Hubble Deep Field), 2011
oil on canvas, 72 x 84 inches
Knives produced by Japanese blacksmith Akira Yamashita in the shapes of Sperm Whale, Minke Whale, Fin Whale, and Bryde Whale (from top to bottom)
me: wears pajamas
me: showers
me: changes into clean pajamas
