Well I’ve been looking to get into silkscreening tshirts, and had heard the name american apparel dropped a few times, and at first was really impressed with what appeared to be a [url=“http://www.americanapparel.net/mission/index.html”]concientious and quality clothing company. But I read (of all places, at jewish forum… it was actually a really cool place – http://www.jewlicious.com…), well I was sickened to discover the owner, Doc Charney’s, attitude towards women and how he [url=“http://www.getunderground.com/underground/columns/article.cfm?Article_ID=1682”]behaves…
Ko writes that during her on and off month-long meetings with Charney, he whipped it out in front of her eight times. Charney rationalizes his behavior to Ko by stating, “’Masturbation in front of women is underrated…It’s much easier on the woman. She gets to watch, it’s a sensual experience that doesn’t involve a man violating a woman, yet once the guy has his release, it’s over and you can talk to the guy.’” Charney suggests that men should be able to “relieve” themselves whenever they find it necessary, as if women shouldn’t expect an intelligent conversation from a man until he’s had the “release,” and he also implies that when a female is actually involved in the sexual act, she can not derive pleasure, that she is instead “violated.” He sounds a lot like Andrew Dworkin there, a feminist writer often despised for her idea that penetration equals violation. Perhaps he has heard of this idea, and perhaps this is why, as his assistant tells it, he “rejects early-90s feminism,” even though her book Intercourse was published in 1987, meaning it was written in the early-80s and it is unclear if either of them has a valid working knowledge of 90s-feminism, which centered primarily on political activism, diversity, and body image issues. This is the only place in the article where I can give kudos to Ko, because this quote nicely demonstrates Charney’s ridiculous mindset.
That’s really messed up, in my opinion. As to if this should affect my tshirt purchasing…??
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Oh, and on the jewish forum, the thread I found…
What do you guys think of this?
