Hi everybody!
Today is the last day of the month of May. So Maroon May is come to a close, so I must produce a few last editions of opinion and crap before this blog goes back to normal.
So I want to talk about the recent news about Abercrombie & Fitch has been in hot water for trying to be a clothing store for stick-looking dickheads and cunts/cool and popular kids at your local high school and watering hole.
Its CEO, Mike Jeffries, made a comment to Salon magazine in 2006 talking about this saying "In every school there are the cool and popular kids, and then there are the not-so-cool kids. Candidly, we go after the cool kids. We go after the attractive all-American kid with a great attitude and a lot of friends. A lot of people don’t belong [in A&F], and they can’t belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely. … [C]ompanies that are in trouble are trying to target everybody: young, old, fat, skinny. But then you become totally vanilla. You don’t alienate anybody, but you don’t excite anybody, either.” Although A&F doesn't make clothes for plus-sized women anymore, the still will make clothes for plus-size men, probably because they need a reason to feel like Arnold Schwarzenegger, even though they look like Kevin James. Of course the sudden rediscovering of these comments have outraged the nation.
This crap about only skinny people shopping at high-end department stores is getting annoying to me. Especially now. There are people on this Earth that need to dress as good as much as they want to feel good too. Although there are ways that cannot--no, should not--do that, as seen on the Maury Show. To take away the right for plus-size women to look great on the way to the mall or the bar or the movies is really outrageous. To me, they're more than just weight and measurements. They're people. They have feelings like we do, self-esteem like we do, faces and bodies and breasts like we do. (Don't deny it.) They walk and talk and have reasons to live. A big amount of weight is just the +1. It's their choice to be this way. And for some jerkass CEO to make this plan to take L, XL, and XXL clothes makes me mad. You, Mike Jeffries, are a twat. There are more than just skinny, short, JJ Evans-looking Boys and girls or men and women (like me) who want to clearly show that off like they're rich hipsters with the irony of love on their arms. There are bigger people who want to feel that same way (without the hipster bullship). Now that you take that away, they'll have to shop elsewhere like H&M or Old Navy or Aeropostale or other places that large people for nice clothes that make them look 3 or 4 (or 6) sizes smaller. And they'll shop there for a very long time. As long as they have the money. I hope you're happy, Mike Jeffries, because that's less money in the company's bank and less credibility and respect and love from your family (if they're still noticing you without the merch on your employee discount) going toward you moving forward. So I hope Mark--oop---Mike What's-his-face changes or doesn't enforce this new idea into all the A&Fs or I won't shop in protest. Which is funny, because I rarely shop there at all.
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