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Is feminist art "the most important artistic movement since World War II"?
American Apparel does it again.
Mom Refuses C-Section, Baby Taken Away (More at National Advocates for Pregnant Women)
Family Guy will take on abortion - whether it will be aired is another story.
Ain't That a Shame (author has her book cover "white washed")
The latest issue of Clamor Magazine hits newsstands September 1, and features extensive coverage of American Apparel's "co-opting of progressive values to hype an otherwise less-than progressive workplace." It features parody ads like the one above, which reads:
Kristina, born to an Iranian mom and Belgian pop, is a native Ohioan. She’s seen here sporting an emerald 100% cotton racerback tank. Unfortunately, her brand devotion to AA could never land her a spot in their ads: Dov Charney thinks short hair on girls is “unnatural.�
Indeed, Kristina would never make the cut at AA. Female employees/models must be fully waxed and stripped down to their tube socks. Sure, the company's sexed-up ads feature half-naked and provocatively posed men, too. But the female ads are far more condescending. Compare these two ads, both selling AA's "Summer Shirt":
Meet Melissa. She won an unofficial wet T-shirt contest held at the American Apparel apartment in Montreal. Her prize for winning was a travel mug from McGill University, and the satisfaction of a job well done. Melissa is wearing our new ultralight Sheer Jersey T-Shirt, AKA "The Summer Shirt," available at our stores and online.
And the male version?
Meet Memo. He's a 31-year-old creative director living in Mexico City (where this polaroid was taken). Memo is wearing our Summer Shirt with bootleg Playboy Bunny briefs from a street market down there.
Yeah. As John Straub writes in Clamor, "The company possesses a downtown textile factory straight out of the ’40s, a sexploitation ad campaign from the ’70s, and a marketing strategy so sophisticated it almost seems to come from the future. Old-world manufacturing paternalism meets sexy transnational marketing: has American Apparel vertically integrated different eras of capitalism?"
Charney & Co. are less than pleased with Clamor's coverage, and are threatening the tiny indie magazine with legal action. I think this means the folks at Clamor have struck a nerve and are doing something right. Props to the editors/writers for pointing out that AA's non-sweatshop stance doesn't make up for its proto-porn advertising campaigns or the fact that Charney reportedly thinks sexual harassment is OK as long as you're a hipster.
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals reaffirms a ruling that waitresses in tank tops and tiny track shorts are actual products, not symbols that can be trademarked. Disgusting.
The RightRides program in NYC has expanded, and with help from ZipCar is now providing late-night shuttle service for women in many parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan.
The Mapping Our Rights project is an amazing resource for information on women's rights in your state.
The Stranger examines pharmacy war being fought in Washington State.
CoverGirl has paid for product placement in young-adult novels.
An analysis of Esquire's "State of the American Man" issue concludes that it's no so much a requiem for men as an unintentional hammer blow to the kind of gender politics that produce articles like these in the first place.
A British study says girls don't benefit from sex-segregated education.
When actress Anne Hathaway asked her "The Devil Wears Prada" co-star Stanley Tucci to stop touching her breasts, he responded, "What do you expect? You're flinging those melons around like it's harvest season." Also disgusting.
Men in India are cashing in on the country's single-woman shortage by renting out their wives. (This is classified as "Weird News." They must not have a "Revolting News" section.)
Time magazine covers the new HPV vaccine-- and arguments for and against making it mandatory for public school enrollment.
Are "female chauvinist pigs" really to blame for thongs, impants and "the death of real passion"?
This article on women and the sportscars they love also informs us that women are "no longer afraid to be seen" driving pickup trucks. Good to know!
Parental notification for abortion is likely to be on the California ballot once again.
Newsweek profiles American Apparel founder Dov Charney.
A judge has decided that 40 white male professors at Northern Arizona University are entitled to $1.4-million in back pay and raises. The professors brought a lawsuit alleging that the university had discriminated against them by giving raises to minority and female professors, but giving no raises to them.
What do we think of the new American Apparel advertising campaign? Perverted pornography or a break from rigid "typical (read anorexic)" advertising? American Apparel is a t-shirt/other cotton goods company well known for its very fair labor practices. The owner Dov Charney seems to be a rather complicated character, well mainly he seems like a big pervert, but what do we make of this kinda contradictory politic? His recent hire for their ad campaign is porn star Lauren Pheonix. I was recently in the store and I couldn't get a hold of how I felt about it either?
There is, for example, no silicone. There is no collagen. No Botox. There is no obvious retouching and no major Photoshopping to eliminate bulge or nipple or shiny forehead and there is occasional body flab and stocky leg and there are plenty of "average" (read: nonanorexic) female body types, and as mentioned all the models are amateurs, real women and men, and each is funky and ethnically mixed and unexpected, and Charney even leaves in the red eye and the sweaty lips and the odd angles and there is an air of salty delicious intimate funk to the pictures that makes you go, now this is what T-shirts should really be all about.
Like obviously I see the goods and the bads here. Incidentally, the owner has several pending sexual harassment suits against him probably stemming from his desire for a free and sexually open workplace.
Tell me what you think?
