The addendum — "Willing and labeled" — seems like the sophomoric pseudo-Marxist reflections of a distressingly earnest teenager who subscribes to Adbusters; does the Starbucks bomber have an alibi? By Sunday evening, when I walked by, the speech bubble, which was stuck on with tape, had been mostly peeled off.

Our favorite Houston St. billboard remix remains the American Apparel "rape" graffito.

Earlier: "I Went Home, Grabbed Some Spraypaint, Took The Train Back And Waited Till 4 a.m. To Climb The Scaffolding."

But maybe $100 is a discount, a special rate for American Apparel, because you like their clothes and you work there and so do other cool people and you all hang out and go to parties with them and it's less like a company than just a clique of attractive people who all happen to work for the same publicly traded company making kinda sexy videos mainly for one another to get off on and because you're all into it, and you just put them on the American Apparel YouTube site because losers like me are more likely to pay attention when American Apparel is involved, because of all those bullshit sexual harrassment lawsuits and nasty rumors about Dov, who is admittedly a big perv but really, who isn't? After all, if I am so disgusted by American Apparel's "objectification" of women, why don't I stop looking at the ads and writing these posts, right? Why don't I stop buying their clothes? Why don't I stop using them to get hits? Sex sells, everyone knows it. Why don't I give it all up and go to the fucking gym and studiously avoid the American Apparel billboards I must pass on the way there? It's not as if I am going to singlehandedly put an end to the pornification of culture or the fact that women will always be evaluated on the basis of their most superficial unsustainable physical qualities. It's not as if I have a hundred dollars to hand out to every attractive twenty year old girl Dov Charney wants to use in an ad. And even if I did, who would choose me?

Would you, Kristen? I dunno, Kristen. I mean, I don't know you. I only know your ass. I'm probably wayyyy oveanalyzing your thought process here. I know, it's almost creepy, right? I'm totally like a stalker. It almost would have been better if I'd just gone with my gut and written:

"Dear Kristen, I know porn when I see it, and this ad is not porn. It is worse."

American Apparel Brings Its Artistic Vision To Video [Copyranter]

And holy itshay is it long! Just downloading the documents would probably cost ten grand. Think of the billable hours! And think of the money Dov could've saved just slipping this chick the $200K or whatever she wanted in the first place. But it isn't about the money, with American Apparel; it never was. It's about DEMOCRACY.

Check this space for our final tally on the cost of downloading the American Apparel sexual harrassment case. In fact, if you've got some free time to spare, do it yourself at the court website.

My calculator isn't strong enough for all those numbers.

UPDATE: SORRY ARGH MISTAKES WERE MADE REBOOT REBOOT.

Dirty Clothes "Suit" [NY Post]

A friend just forwarded the american apparel story link and said: "dude, you're efamous...kind of". I was totally amazed and happy that such a debate was sparked by my humble offering.
First off, i'm not a graf writer. Honestly, I was just reacting to the constantly degrading images of women that AA creates. That ad in particular - headless, bent over, composed so that the focus was irrefutable... I went home, grabbed some spraypaint, took the train back and waited until 4am to climb the scaffolding.
Now that i've read all of the comments and reactions posted on jezebel, i feel regret at having chosen the word "get". The people who mentioned "are" as a better choice of wording were right. I struggled with the thought of leaving such an open-to-interpretation message, but eventually just decided to go with my gut-reaction and get the hell down from there.
It was horrifying to read that some people interpreted it as "women deserve to be raped" or that i was probably some uneducated/ignorant/misogynistic graf writer promoting my justification....(geez, talk about a stereotype!) I also took offense to the comments that suggested i need to re-evaluate my concept of feminism... duh! of course i agree that women should be able to dress as they please and not have to worry about others interpretation. That said, i couldn't let this advert slide by without a protest. This wasn't a run of the mill ad by some faceless corporation. This was Dov Charney's "art" and ideology.
I'll be the first to admit that i have a lot to learn. I'm not much of an academic, and have only recently started reading books which address gender, feminist theories, body image... i have my own (imperfect) ideas and reactions to the world around me and accept that i am going to make mistakes, and grow as i learn more...
As an act of civil disobedience/direct action, i believe that this form of protest was effective(if only momentarily) in that it caused AA economic damage(well over $10,000.), inspired an open discussion on many levels and was a learning experience for all.
I don't mean to ramble on and on, so i'll just end this by saying thank you for bringing this topic/discussion onto your website. In the future, i will take greater precautions to be more clear in my meaning...