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Dov Charney Co-Opted Woody Allen Image Out Of Adoration
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Dov Charney Co-Opted Woody Allen Image Out Of Adoration |
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You are a CLOTHING COMPANY, everything you do is intended to result in the SALE OF CLOTHING. So don't give me that shit.
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In short: it depends.
On the whole: absolutely yes, Judaism and feminism go beautifully together as it is commonly practiced.
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Although I will say that modern Orthodoxy has made great strides in the past couple of decades towards gender equality (at least compared to the Hasidim). And I think that perspectives on hair covering and the mikvah are often like perspectives from Westerners on the hijab -- the assumption that such practices are oppressive and that any woman who supports them is deluding herself. Of course a woman should be able to choose not to do these things if she so desires, but in my experience most Orthodox women wouldn't choose to.
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Modern Orthodoxy (and women in it: Blu Greenberg, for example) have done great things and are having fabulous conversations on issues like mikvah, divorce, segregated synagogues, rabbinical ordination for women, etc. Just saying, it's not an across the board lovefest.
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Anyway, as I'm sure you know, we love fake Jews. My high school was filled with Jewish kids and fake Jews and we used to say of the latter that they were "rolling with the Jew crew". Because we were cool like that.
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1) Putting a brand name on a billboard constitutes being an AD. Even if you're in ironic hipster company fully of ironic hipsters, ironically trying to be hip, it's still an ad. If Dov wanted to make a statement about the way he was being viewed, he should have put a picture of himself on the billboard, in a parody of the movie.
2) Woody Allen's personal life should have no bearing on the use of his image, and the lawyer has absolutely no right to say that a group of people who make skanky clothes don't think Woody Allen's image is worth $10 million so they're not going to pay it. It comes off as very flip and stuck up and seriously deluded if they think that's how they can do business.
3) Dov Charney, I fucking hate you. You are nowhere near as huge and awesome as you think you are, and when your clothing goes the way of Contempo Casuals in a few years, you will realize that.
I'm not pro-Woody Allen here, but this entire lawsuit reeks of jevenile name calling from kids who got caught with their hands in the cookie jar.
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"The Yiddish text overlaying the image - along with that prominent American Apparel logo - translates to "the holy rebbe.""
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