American Apparel's Dov Charney: 'Women initiate most domestic violence'

[BurtWorm]

:wtf:

This man sells clothes to women by calling them abusers and victims? And women buy his clothes?!


Read all about it here:

http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/01/28/fuck-you-dov-charney/


PS: correction: it's not an American Apparel ad.

[ananda]

1. Women who buy those clothes are sick.

And stupid.

[ogneopasno]

23. Men too.

[Why Syzygy]

2. Boycot. nt

[GOPNotForMe]

3. Dove or whatever his name is, who runs AA, is notoriously sexist!

He is a pretty awful person.

[BurtWorm]

8. Women have the power to sink him.

[bunnies]

4. I dont even understand what its trying to say.

Am I stupid? :shrug: That group of words makes no sense to me whatsoever.

[atommom]

16. It doesn't make sense at all, but his intent is pretty clear. The man's an asshat.

[bunnies]

19. ok. I thought it was just me.

phew. Either way, we agree on the asshat part.

[LoZoccolo]

5. It's not an American Apparel ad. n/t

[mzteris]

6. link to the interview

http://www.mcgilldaily.com/view.php?aid=3253


What a creep!

:puke:

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

7. It's Not A Real Ad. Your Header Is Misleading.

It's a fake add though it contains a real quote from him.

[Recursion]

11. It's not a real ad, but it is a real quote

I don't know that OP is claiming it's an AA ad.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

12. The OP Edited The Header.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. Moisture is the essence of wetness.

:popcorn:

[Recursion]

10. Dov is a sick f**k

I worked with AA in earlier days. He's a sick, sick dude.

[musette_sf]

13. i think this "American Apparel" guy was written about

in several articles as a sexist pig, so no surprises here.

the employment agreement that employees must sign off on includes the following:

One result of the lawsuits is a document that all American Apparel employees are now required to sign, which declares: "American Apparel is in the business of designing and manufacturing sexually charged T-shirts and intimate apparel, and uses sexually charged visual and oral communications in its marketing and sales activities. Employees working in the design, sales, marketing and other creative areas of the company will come into contact with sexually charged language and visual images. This is a part of the job for employees working in these areas."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/23/magazine/23apparel.html?pagewanted=6

there really is nothing "sexually charged" about any of the actual APPAREL. only the marketing. what a douche.

of course the Men's Apparel part of the site doesn't have any provocative marketing. and they also sell kids and babies' apparel. so all of the actual "sexually charged" images and language is all about objectifying women. quelle surprise.



eeeewwwwwww

[juno jones]

26. And funny, they sell babies, children's and men's clothing in realistic sizes

If you go and measure their women's clothes, their XL is about a women's 10-12 and there are no plus sizes.

After reading the titbits in this article and thread, I will never offer them as a choice to our screenprinting customers again.

[mitchum]

14. I knew Dov a decade ago (we bonded over our mutual hedonism...

and liberalism) and he was an extremely kind and considerate guy.
For the past several years, I have been amused by his masterful playing of the media.
However, this latest statement is very surprising. The Dov who I knew did not think like that.

[BurtWorm]

24. Interesting, Mitchum.

I admit, it's easy to throw darts at people we don't know, especially when they're caught saying shit like this.

[tigereye]

15. seems like an attempt to garner media attention... big surprise

AA sells clothes of a style that we used to simply buy separately back in the 80s and we got for much less money. And the clothes are usually in fairly small sizes.

[demokatgurrl]

17. The sad thing is this is one of the very FEW companies

making clothes in the u.S. so I would love to buy them. However, not now.

[Orrex]

18. It's very inconsiderate, the way the dames get their blood all over the guys' fists

Shame on them wimmin!

[Iggo]

20. You were probably asking for it.

Now buy my clothes.

[Lisa0825]

21. They need to hear from us.

I checked their Wikipedia profile, expecting this to be typical of some bad company, but the profile shows a lot of good things. If they really are a good company, they need to know that this must STOP or they will lose the good will they have earned.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_apparel#Branding_and_advertising

[ogneopasno]

22. He's terribly sexist and a union-buster. American Apparel is crap and I don't buy from them.

[juno jones]

25. We worked with AA garments in our silkscreening buisness

It was nice to be able to furnish customer with a 'made in USA' choice, but the lack of realistic female sizes, overly slim cuts and overall flimsy quality combined with the outrageous prices (We would have to try to sell one of their shirts for at least $25-30 each to cover our own costs) kept us from really supporting their buisness.

For american made knitwear, start by checking out Dharma Trading Company of San Rafael, CA. I'm sure there are others.

It wouldn't surprise me if the company is sexist. The women's clothes are all cut and sized for model-thin girls size 0-10, just like you see in their underwear-laden ads.