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Just When You Thought American Apparel Couldn’t Fail Any Harder…
Tweet They manage to. To work at American Apparel you must email a full body shot to some mysterious email address after which you are approved or rejected. Failure. Via Gawker. Clearly, that standard leaves a lot of wiggle room. Now, a source tells us that American Apparel has a new hiring policy. For the [...]
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Is sperm the new “swoosh”?
Tweet Whenever I’m on a plane, I can’t help but flip through SkyMall – a catalog that prides itself on offering useless but strangely compelling products like bug vacuums or scary neck thingies. But last week while on a plane to Florida I saw perhaps the best SkyMall product ever: these – inexplicably spermified shoes. [...]
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Urban Outfitters “Eat Less” shirt removed from website but still in stores
TweetVanessa posted last week about Urban Outfitters oh-so-clever father/daughter purity shirt. Because that wasn’t enough sexism for their t-shirt department, the company is also currently selling a shirt that says simply “Eat Less.” After protest the pro-anorexia shirt has reportedly been pulled from the company’s website. But apparently Urban Outfitters is still selling the shirts [...]
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Really, Urban Outfitters?
Tweet While Urban Outfitters find shirts supporting marriage equality too controversial for their store shelves, apparently selling father-daughter purity grossness is all good. Whether or not this was meant to be funny, it really missed the mark; all it does is give me the ickies. Related: Vintage Video Sexism: Kissing is for Whores Time Magazine [...]
Topless piñatas, stripper pole included