<![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen" - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen" - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> Yes, other companies are skeevy and exploitative, but it's the fact that AA insists "We're so cool because we don't exploit our factory workers" while sexploiting the women that work in the stores and the office and paying them shit while telling them (yo! False consciousness!) that they are soooo edgy that jars. As though that's all a-ok.
I bet most porn stars get paid considerably better than the average AA amateur.

bowleserised

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> "what you will"

Erg. Hate life and puter sometimes.

Rooo sez BISH PLZ

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @spure2003: Well, the additional subtext there is "Pornwatchers, you don't have to be a rich man to afford her".

Make of that wha tyou will.

Rooo sez BISH PLZ

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @stacyinbean: UNITS. thank you. i have been trying to remember that brand name since I first laid eyes on AA.

J.D.Regent

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @bangbangbonnie: Nor by her ass - totes generic.

Nodiva

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @jknives: And thanks, that's a really good point.

Moe

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @Macloserboy: VS models got paid to pioneer the shit that kids less than a generation later will do for free. It's great that it saves AA the advertising expense so they can actually pay their factory workers better than VS, but I don't think Kristen thinks of it as a mitzvah they're all doing a few thousand Mexican. If she thought of it that way, well, I'd be okay with it. As it is it's just really fucking hard to watch this shit knowing these girls think what they are doing is somehow so fucking cool and edgy.

Moe

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @ YOULL BE SAYIN' NO, NO, NO, NO, NO -Just wanted to say I love your name and everytime I read it, I dance about in my chair and remember when Destiny's Child were good.

P.S The reply button doesn't work for your name.

Dogtanian

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> At times it is hard to follow your posts when you include rambling, run-on sentences. It could be because I am structured to anticipate a stop or a break after the introduction of a couple ideas. Alternately, it could just be an unclear manner of describing the message. I know that the "stream of consciousness" approach was used to a great effect by Faulkner and Joyce. Nonetheless, you can get a similar effect using other methods and not diminish the readability of your posts.

This isn't a slight; I just want to enjoy your posts and grasp your descriptions clearly.

Nigromancer

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @RosemaryF: I think it's a double standard. Most women on here, if I'm not mistaken (which I could be) are supportive of sex workers and stand up for women in general. I just don't quite understand why this girl gets the derision while a lot of women doing similar stuff (exposing their bodies for projects/messages they may not agree with) don't.

zivah

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> I don't understand the AA appeal. I buy clothes made for women, not teenagers.

BeSarcastic

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> Clearly, the Patriarchy will never give up it's misogyny/objectification of women. However, if more young girls were reading and discussing thought-provoking, intelligent pieces like this instead of their latest myspace pics - perhaps they could learn a little something about dignity and self-respect. Values, which in our time have clearly sailed out the fucking window. Nice work, lady. Fuck American Apparently already.

jknives

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @Pope John Peeps II:

Well done.

number six

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> to quote one of my fav tags ever: "gee, i wonder why women get raped."

hatboxlady

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @Macloserboy: Ah, jesus, soul. So funny!

Is Giselle simulating sexual positions? Nope.

Catty Is Cumbersome

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @kityglitr: ahhh vice magazine? maybe i'm wrong but aren't they incredibly vile? I remember that they did a lingerie shoot with a heroin addict once and were highlighting her needle tracks right next to her bush.

hushnowcharlotte

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @missdelite: Don't give Dov ideas, fer chrissakes!

I'd say it's 'worse' than porn in that it pretends to be something else. It contributes to a blurring of the line between porn and reality, churning out girls who think they need to wax at 12 and show their ta-tas to be successful and guys who think cumming on a girl's face on the first date is par for the course.

HeatherNumber1

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @shuffler: She'd sell her feet to Satan? But who'd want her then!?!

And other than money, the difference between this and the close ups of the non-asses of Victoria Secrets models that I'm going to have to see on TV until 2/14 is what exactly? That, unlike this video, you don't get to hear the director telling Giselle to bend over more? If so where's that freaking "Oh my god! This is worse than porn!" posting? Because 300 million americans are going to see those ads this Sunday during the Super Bowl. Not so much here.

Macloserboy

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> It is worse.

goldenfiddle

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @Kai1984: Those Sisley ads were shot by Terry Richardson- who I find just as offensive

thatsrealbutter

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @MissSmithDrankyourVodka: exactly. When she stood up, she did look like she had an ass, but bent over all I saw were her legs. Which I liked and am somewhat jealous of, but generally looked kind of severe as in a bit too skinny.

hushnowcharlotte

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @shuffler: oh. haha. no prob ehtn.

ineffable.me

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @ineffable.me: I know. I should have mentioned that first! I was trying to create a string from your comment.

Catty Is Cumbersome

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> I'll admit that I was not nearly as offended at this vid as I was looking at an old copy of Vice magazine I flipped over yesterday. Have you seen the ads for the "Tap Panty"? It's basically a closeup shot of a model's ass stuck up in the air. It's heavy on the camel toe. It's gross/titillating. This just looked like something a dumb high school chick would post on myspaceTV. Not offensive, just meh.

kityglitr

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @shuffler: hey, im with you, im not the one that said i didnt blame her.

ineffable.me

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @ineffable.me: Once you're 18, you are 100% responsible for your actions. I don't know her but I think 1) she thinks this is a great story to tell her friends, 2) she's really hard up for cash, and/or 3) she'd sell her sole to the devil to be an object of desire.

I bet it's 1 and 2. I thank Girls Gone Wild and Dov for giving women the opportunity to feel sexy/slutty and make a few bucks at the same time or get a free t-shirt. However, she's just as much of an asshole as Dov. I'm not going to give that guy credit by saying he can manipulate women into dumb shit that sets us back 100 years.

Catty Is Cumbersome

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @amowls: I blame AA, the girl, her parents, the world, pro-choicers (myself included), God, Jesus, Chuck Norris, Mother Theresa and kittens.

meaghan2k

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @amowls: why arent you blaming her? shes an idiot for going through with it.

ineffable.me

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> I'm going to set up Penis Apparel, where men in clingfilm pants press their luggage against some glass. I won't be actually selling anything, either.

mepo

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> 1) It's not as if I am going to singlehandedly put an end to the pornification of culture

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

So.... this ad is more pornifying than actual porn? It's more cruelly objectifying than the thing that gives that form of objectification its name?

Oh, and please post more Ryan Reynolds pics! Preferably shirtless! RRRrrrrrRRRRooooowwwwrrrr. Amirite ladies? Amirite?

Pope John Peeps II

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> I'm not blaming her, I'm blaming the company.

amowls

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> Meh.
This shit gets old real fast.
Up Next: 2 girls,1 panty???

missdelite

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @Kai1984: Yeah, they've got a forum for about everything. I started on CL reading the Missed Connections and personals, because I get a good laugh out of them too. The forum list is right underneath the personals. I like their women's issues forum and their beauty forum.

kitschenette

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> I've got major issues with AA's advertising and their CEO too (thus I do not shop there), but how many posts can you write on essentially the same subject? This is just starting to seem like someone's got a bone to pick (no pun intended).

bitsy boozer

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> I was so pissed when I bought my Sleater-Kinney "Show Me Your Riffs" t-shirt from the Kill Rock Stars website and found out that the shirt was from AA. It's really soft and comfy but Dov Charney is such a bonerkiller in so many ways that I couldn't help but be disappoitned.

whynotshesaid

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @TeenageGangDeb: Also: You can actually get off to porn.

KillMeNow has a stalker named Yolanda

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> Lovin'some Moe! I assume "Kristen" is either too young, or too dumb to understand the implications of doing this for a clothing company. Mass marketing a sliver of cotton between, camera and gyrating orifice to all cohorts is dangerous.
I don't have American Apparel out here in corn country but I have noticed their ads. Guess, Louis V, Calvin, etc...Have all had as/more sexy ad campaigns...I like optic sex as much as the next perv & love the female body but I agree with your frustration---I watched the video. For me it's that she's acting like a f*ck-drone: mindless, in heat and giggling.

princessrachel

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> wow do i wish i'd come up with this comment on the youtube video:

"That's so weird. Why would someone dub a happy woman's voice over a video of a Brazilian child hooker?"
- a youtube commenter

jungle_red

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> "Spokesbottom" Thanks!

TGY

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> Whatever. The fact that this is Dov Charney's idea of a nice ass just confirms everything I think of him and his festering sore of a company. 'Oh but gee whiz the hoodies are so cute!!!' Whatthefuckever.

topsy

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> ok, so I don't really get this. Every time I've been in one of these stores I've come across the following things:

a) Ugly salespeople with REALLY dirty hair
b) Clothes my mom used to buy at Units in 1993
c) DIRTY stores, ick

So how is this place some sort of cultural bastion for 'pretty people'? I just thought it was a sad excuse for a cotton factory...

stacyinbean

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @midoriland: yeah, they used to show models with so-called "imperfections" - rolls here and there, moles, scars, etc. It had that whole shot on a budget in your friend's apt. vibe. Now, it's more like shot in your skeevy neighbor's basement vibe.

Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> i figured this was AA's attempt at viral video and it's probably from a shoot with on their "models"

who btw does not have a great ass

hypnotic

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> Ew, their video channel has a tutorial on how to age a t-shirt? Honestly. You wear it for a few months. That's how you age a t-shirt.

I used to think American Apparel was a good thing, but that lasted only a couple of weeks. Before I learned what a sexist pervert Charney is. And then I knew it was time for me to transfer out of my old degree program here (textile and apparel management) when I learned that just about everybody in the department worships AA. Barf.

notquiteunderground

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @kitschenette: Amazing! Yeah, I admit I go to Missed Connections when I want a good laugh. And I used to really like style.com's Beauty Forum for actual (albeit not terribly deep or enlightening) advice/discussion, etc. I didn't even know there was a CL forum! Any good?

kai1984

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @Archetype: Very similar. Moreso, though, AA ads remind me of rampant STDs.

Catty Is Cumbersome

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> Okay- I love Porn..I am all for it. Then why or why did I get the heebie jeebies when AA ads were plastered all over Gawker and Jezebel?

TheUptightMidwesterner

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @eeva: I'll third that. Sure, she's putting herself on display willingly, welcoming commentary on said ass.

To actually choose to comment on size/shape/aesthetics vs. the fact that she's doing that shit for $ in the first place is tacky, IMHO. More along the lines of commentary I'd read on less intelligent blogs.

DetroitGirlsDoItBest

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> Erm, I would not consider that a nice ass. Nice asses have some...ass to them. She is gorgeous and thin, yes. But not impressed with the ass, except for its smallness.

Although I had a roommate who liked his women with asses like 12 year old boys'. Hm, thinking back on it, that was probably a harbinger...

warmaiden

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @BritneyCanadaWhore: Yes. I like the correlation that she draws to some extent (not that it's really that hard to draw it), but not a fan, either.

TruculentandUnreliable

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @LiLiLi: For one, she barely got paid for it.

Catty Is Cumbersome

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> What is up with the girls gone wild anyway? I'm don't usually see television at all but saw a commercial at a friend's house the other day and couldn't believe it. I'm not just going to write them off as ignorant little bitches. Why is it that so many young women are eager to raise their shirts or shake their naked ass around for 100 bucks or just some sleazy dude telling them they are sexy?

ridgegirl

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @Kai1984: No-name models as I recall. I didn't have any luck finding them online....

Archetype

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @meaghan2k: It's rather underaged, underdeveloped in appearance, don't you think? (I didn't watch the video, just saw the YouTube screen freeze. Not going to watch it either.)

Catty Is Cumbersome

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @LvV: What I mean is, if you hate AA, expedite the process of their demise by not shopping there.

LvV

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @TheUptightMidwesterner:
it really does say, hey pay me 100 bucks and I will be your polaroid whore, oh don't worry about it, I take nickels. I am no prude at all and I'm an ass man but no matter what the companies marketing scheme, if the girls are dumb enough to do the ads then....hey, what can ya say. No one held a veggie wrap to her bandana adorned head with their reflection beaming off of her rayban wayfarers and said you must pose in your drawz or never wear reflective blue tights again!

spure2003

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> Moe, please forward this to her. My guess is this is the most insightful thing anyone has ever said about her.

Are American Apparel ads and videos for the ladies who want to do porn but are afraid of being disinhereted?

Catty Is Cumbersome

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> Why don't I stop buying their clothes?

I don't know ... why don't you? I love ya, Moe, but honestly, why all the handwringing over this (from anyone). Dov's an effing degenerate, these ads suck, and it's not like AA is the only place to buy a cute hoodie.

AA will fail in the end, and not even because of Dov. It's retail. Everyone fails (or gets bought out and becomes a shell of its former self).

LvV

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @Kai1984: Nah, this is the Craigslist beauty forum. Gross creepy men galore. Every so often some dude posts asking about shoes and feet and toenail polish.

kitschenette

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @smugmarried: Not all Gap stuff is sweatshop labor. Thanks to a recent repeat ep. of "This American Life" (David vs. Goliath if you want to find it on iTunes)I learned that Gap is one of the biggest supporters of the Vietnamese garment industry, and Vietnam has perhaps the most progressive labor laws in the third world. It's pretty awesome. But because it's more expensive to produce things in Vietnam than say, China or Indonesia, Vietnam is having a hard time competing and may have to end their little experiment with fair labor.

funnyface

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> It's so much easier to just be an ass. Girls these days. They got no gumption! Why, back when I was a hot young thing, I used to have to bum cigs off boys, make actual eye contact and sometimes even talk to them.

JaneBadall

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> SO yeah, none of us can singlehandedly change culture, but I sure as hell don't and will never shop there.

Meanmllemustard

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @meaghan2k:
my thoughts exactly. there is no ass there. just dignity for sale.

HoneyLush

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @kitschenette: Well, when they are hiring on Craigslist their ads always say "ATT MODELS AND ACTRESSES"

ineffable.me

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @smugmarried: My best friend in the world works for AA's la factory.

incurable paranoiac

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @vivresavie17: That's what I was saying.. that they're not airbrushed... at least the ones I remember seeing before. I dunno, just pointing it out there.

I mean these girls are the same girls that do shit on girls gone wild. they suck too and the earth will be rid of them when i am queen or the cleansing rain comes, whichever happens first.

ineffable.me

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> I'm only inches away from buying a $70 hoodie...if only she'd grab her ankles then i'd totally be sold.

Ladette

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @kitschenette: That's funny! :::Hope to God I never date a guy who would even think that buying me a gold lame one piece cut to there from AA is a good idea::: Coincidentally, what beauty forum did you go to? Not the old Vogue or Style.com forums, right?

kai1984

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @kitschenette:I also heard that Abercrombie pays someone just to walk around spraying their clothes with that cologne or whatever. I'm sure it's just a rumor though...

kitschenette

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @blondegrlz: I went in Abercrombie once with my sister and had to leave. I knew a girl who worked at Hollister and had to take Advil every day because the music gave her such a headache. Also, she had a group interview and only the girls with blonde hair got hired. WTF?

kitschenette

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @blondegrlz: I can't stand to be within 20 yards of a Hollister store. The combination of the music, their nasty perfume, and the pukey, overpriced clothes make me ill.

petuniacat

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> I shop at American Apparel. I love their hoodies, their tanks, lots of their basics, and happily ignore the stranger stuff. But more importantly, since I could get similar stuff at Old Navy or The Gap, I decided to shop there for all my basic items because I am just sick to death of supporting sweatshop labor with my purchases. I would love for AA to cut out the porn ads, but in my personal list of priorities, it is much more important to me to cut the sweatshop and child labor-produced items out of my life than it is to hate on AA for their ads. In a perfect world, I'd get my underwear and socks without supporting either sweatshop labor or the objectification of women. Unfortunately I don't think I have that option so I had to make a choice.

Of course I'm biased. I've met some of the guys that work in the LA factory. I haven't met Kristen. Well, other than the screenshot above.

smugmarried

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @functional_alcoholic: She came and spoke at my school about five years ago and gave a slide show. Her (very second wave) point is interesting, but she's pretty dismissive of the notion that sex workers are women with reason and agency who are capable of making their own decisions and deserve safe, decriminalized working conditions. She's very Porn Bad Tree Pretty. It was annoying. I don't think anyone in my entire college agreed with her hardline stance on the issue.

BritneyCanadaWhore

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @Archetype: I think I was overseas when those came out...who were the models??

kai1984

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @ridgegirl: Let's not forget that Gawker's shirts are AA as well :-)

Archetype

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @kitschenette: I'll give you a free pass on the hoodie.

The models and staff at AA need to take inspiration from Norma Rae and stand up to Dov. "Forget it, Dov! I'm keepin' my dignity. It's gonna take you and the police department and the fire department and the National Guard to get me outta my clothes!"

petuniacat

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @moonstone: Thanks!

sanibelly

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> Is it bad if I just think those girls in the ads are dumb asses for partaking, but otherwise don't care? AA just doesn't rile me up. Those people remind me of the kids who got to college and still thought cliques were cool. They walked around thinking they'd finally "made IT" with the their clueless douchey friends, while the rest of us laughed at how unintentionally funny they were.

eucalyptus

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @RosemaryF: Okay, that's stretching it somewhat. It's not a models job or place "agree with the concept" of every gig. She was booked for an underwear ad. She showed up, modeled the underwear and that was it.

And this is so disingenuous because this isn't her ass in an ad about cars or beer, it's her ass in something about the ass. Ass other have said, the real problem is their shit don't fit.

Macloserboy

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @Kai1984: The companies who make ads like that are counting on men to be buying those things for their wives/girlfriends, I think.

It reminds me of a beauty forum that I read that's primarily composed of women, but every once in a while a guy will drop in and give his two cents (usually unsolicited). Someone asked for good swimwear websites and this guy replied saying that most guys would like [wickedweasel.com] Wicked Weasel bikinis. I looked at the site and was like, WTF? What woman would actually wear this stuff on the beach? Obviously targeted towards men.

kitschenette

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @blondegrlz: I love how the store clerks at A&F stand shirtless at the front of the store and gyrate to the pumping bass within. And by "love" I mean "turn bright red and hightail it back to penney's- where things make sense".

incurable paranoiac

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @cuesanibelly: I bought a shirt from them once which didn't fit AND promptly fell apart. My organization bought a bunch of t shirts from them and mine promptly ripped a seam upon impact. Ethics aside, the quality of the clothing is, in my experience, low as hell. I can't believe that every available American worker they can find and pay what is purported to be a living wage is incapable of matching the quality level of an exploited child laborer in a third world country. Perhaps the people sewing are on a lot of drugs as well?

ridgegirl

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> It's things like AA billboards which make me very happy to live in the billboardless boonies

PhoneticLorin

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> I don't think she has a particularly nice ass, personally.

B

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @ineffable.me: Normally I would like that, but I get the feeling that AA does that more to promote a sort of edgy, "I took these photos in my basement" kind of way. It's hard to be a douchey hipster when you're all airbrushed. I also think it makes advertising way cheaper. I have a feeling they're not really trying to promote realistic body images.

vivresavie17

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @Kai1984: AA ads reminds me of the Calvin Klein basement porn ads from the 90's.

Archetype

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> "Dear Kristen, I know porn when I see it, and this ad is not porn. It is worse."

Implying that porn is bad? I guess it is, to some people. I am sooooo over this American Apparel-Moe thing. Sorry Moe.

But this video is pretty ridiculous...not surprising, but ridiculous. I wonder hoe much she was actually paid...

catastrophewaitress

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @kitschenette: Aaaaah! Abercrombie and the even worse Hollister give me seizures. Can someone explain to me what about their incredibly dark, crowded and loud stores merrits paying $85 for a pair of ripped jeans and $30 for white tank top?

BlondeGrlz is having a BlondeBoyz!

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @zivah: Agreed. At least not for how flat or otherwise her ass is. Criticise her judgment all you want.

Eeva

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> Does anyone else remember the Sisley ads from the late 90s/early 2000? For some reason, whenever I pass an AA now, I remember a huge Sisley billboard of a woman holding a peach in front of her crotch...I always wondered why the folks in the advertising dept. would think that would attract/inspire the female buyer...
Trashy.

Great post, Moe!

kai1984

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @petuniacat: The Flex Fleece Zip Hoodie. :( I promise I won't buy anything there again after I drop $40 on a zip up hoodie. I shouldn't feel guilty about buying clothes! Eff you, Dov Charney!

kitschenette

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> Reminds me of the Bill Hicks stand up routine where he describes the ultimate commercial: a beautiful woman, completely naked, legs spread, fondling herself. The words superimposed over the image? "DRINK COKE".

TWSS

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> You know, I remember early-early on in the whole AA phenomenon, pre-saturation, when I actually kind of liked the vibe of their ads and how the girls looked more or less real. That ass looks like some pervy action-figure designers sculpted it. I can no longer relate.
@LiLiLi: I think it's worse than porn because usually those ladies seem to be enjoying themselves even more than their audience probably is.

midoriland

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @cuesanibelly: My cousin calls it "continuation of thigh" instead of a butt.

moonstone

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> She's probably Juilliard-trained and thinking, "My body is my instrument."

ihateyourescalade is an east coast elite

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> Well, this seals the deal - I shall continue to not shop at AA. Haven't found anything there I couldn't live without, and I don't see that changing anytime soon.

petuniacat

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> Okay, everyone's ass looks better when they are leaning over. That's just science. What bothers me the most is if she were only paid $100. I'd do an ad like that because my dignity is for sale, but it's certainly pricier than that. Way to flood the skin market, aa-sshole.

MollyShroom

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @bess marvin, girl detective: And to add to that, wasn't it this site that determined that their clothes don't fit you right? I bought two band shirts made by AA and they make me look like a fool.

sanibelly

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @zivah: Why not? By being in the ad she's pretty much stating that she agrees with the concept. And, a model is there to be judged on her looks.

RosemaryF

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> I don't care for AA, dov or their skeezy policies, but should people be complaining about her body when they use "real women" in their ads instead of models? And that you can usually see cellulite/stretch marks/razor burn in them?

ineffable.me

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @zivah: I'll confess to that, but mostly because if you're gonna sell underwear, at least fill it up with a decent butt. I find nothing attractive at all about any of it, and wouldn't step foot in one of their stores because of this piece of shit ad.

vanishingirl

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @meaghan2k: I agree.

Toned ass? Yes. Toned legs? Yes. Nice ass - meh, not so much for me.

Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @LiLiLi: Me neither. For it to be worse than porn, porn would have to be bad.

Not that I really care for porn.

I am so much more offended by the quality of this stuff. I've bought three of their bodysuits (can someone please tell me who else sells a basic cami-bodysuit??) and they've all fallen apart in a matter of days.

Never again.

Archetype

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> I love a gal's butt much more than any of you do, but this sort of exploitation is just wrong. Make it stop.

BowlingForDollars

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @TheUptightMidwesterner: Imagine what her father must think! Oh wait. Maybe she doesn't have one? Now I'm worried about Kristen and her homelife. Damn that psychology degree!

SouthernSatine says ROLL TIDE!

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @tokenblackgirl:

but if she had those kind of brains she wouldn't be working at ameriApp.

i am so glad i'm totally disinterested in both this company and its clothes.

msAnthrope

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> i don't think AA sells good clothes. they awfully plain and sold at a ridiculous price.

bess marvin, girl detective

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @cuesanibelly: Just put it in some wedgie underwear and wiggle it for the camera, then it'll be hot.

kitschenette

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> I think her ass is skinny.

vanishingirl

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> That was seriously unattractive. I mean, ewww. I actually feel sorry for her... is that wrong? I mean, they must have gotten her pretty coked up to do that, right? Because, seriously, eww.

MoonJewel

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> Hey, let's not attack the model. The concept? Sure. The company? By all means. But not the model.

zivah

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @meaghan2k: I thought it was flat too until she stood up and I saw some "bumpage."

Macloserboy

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> This is just tacky and gross. Exactly what I expect from AA .

h_a_l

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> This is a really great post. I gotta say I'm conflicted in the same way that you are. I like their clothes (the ones that don't resemble 80s workout/hooker gear) but I don't feel good about supporting a business that, at its heart, is blatantly sexist, demeaning, and disgusting. The sitch: I like sweatshop-free clothing. I like comfy, flattering hoodies and t-shirts. I don't like ads like that and what they do to women.

I plan to go to the store this weekend and buy a hoodie, because I really like it, but I'm going to feel really uncomfortable every second I'm in there. I just know it. I don't understand why Dov Charney does this. What's the point of creating an uncomfortable atmosphere for your clientele? It's sort of like how I can't even step foot in an Abercrombie store (not that I would buy anything there, eugh) without having a damn near panic attack due to the ridiculously loud music/Eau de Frat Party stench/photos of buttcracks all over the place.

kitschenette

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @LiLiLi: Because porn is at least honest. Porn doesn't sell a "lifestyle".

TeenageGangDeb

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> So today has been pretty NSFW. This ad is also NSFL, really.

hortense

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> "Dear Kristen, I know porn when I see it, and this ad is not porn. It is worse."

My thoughts exactly.

TeenageGangDeb

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> You know, I feel bad for the girl because nobody will ever recognize her by her face.

Well, not bad as much as she-has-it-coming-for-being-a-total-ho-b....

bangbangbonnie

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @eeva: Exactly.

BiscuitDoughJones

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> How is this worse than porn? I don't get it.

LiLiLi

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @BiscuitDoughJones: My mind went to a different kind of "whacking" until I realised you meant "killing". I feel super-extra-dirty now.

Eeva

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> That ass looks exactly like my flat ass, but I get called "flat ass". What's up, Kristen?!! Am I supposed to lean over, is that the trick?

sanibelly

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> Didn't Jez used o be SPONSORED by AA? [jezebel.com]
What, did we scare them away? Come back, Dov! We only want your balls on a stick!

katastic

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> If you haven't already, you should read the "pornography of meat" by Carol J. Adams. She describes the "thingification" of women and nonhumans (i.e. animals) by the advertising industry using ads, illustrations, signs, & photos to backup her argument.

functional_alcoholic

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> I walked by an AA yesterday and there was a huge ad of a woman in a bathing suit/onesie/whatever with full-on pubic hair showing. Part of me was like "wow, good for them," but most of me was like "eew Dov."

mollsmolls

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> "Dear Kristen, I know porn when I see it, and this ad is not porn. It is worse."

Yays.

TruculentandUnreliable

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> Wtf is this? Porn? Where are the tits????

Thank you, youtube commenter. Your insight is really all this needs.

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> I can't believe that video. I feel really dirty now. Like I've been lodged beneath the flap of Tony Soprano's sweaty man-tit during a "whacking" kind of dirty.

BiscuitDoughJones

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> Her mother must be so proud.

TheUptightMidwesterner

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> How can an ass that looks like the leg connects to the back with no bump at all be considered a nice ass? Maybe it's because I have junk in my trunk and can't fathom anyone liking sticks connected to one another, but whatever.

meaghan2k

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> I am proud to say I have never bought anything at an American Apparel. But that really means nothing to them, I'm obviously not in their target market.

BlondeGrlz is having a BlondeBoyz!

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> Best. Last. Line. Ever.

olivia2.0

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> If i were her i would have asked to be paid in pounds.

tokenblackgirl

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> This really pisses me off. What an idiot. I bet if you saw her face it would read "smug."

Mollyboo

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> Overreact much? I think this is a response to Dov Chaney and not so much the ad itself. The only difference between this and more "high concept" ads like Gwen Stefani in the "cum spurt" ad that was also featured here on Jezebel is that he's not pretending.

And the ass was nice. Panties, not so much.

Macloserboy

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> Great post.

Mmmmkay

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> @DorothyZbornak: Or that hideous meat grinder graphic.

notbetty

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> Before the recession she would have totally gotten at least 150 for this ad.

incurable paranoiac

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> I'm telling you, AA is thisclose to a full-on Hustler style ad with a chick shoving something in her cooch. Just you wait.

DorothyZbornak

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> They have VIDEOS?

LBB says YES WE DID!

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> Assvertising.

mbprice

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> I draw the line when the models look/are underage. Otherwise, I don't care.

Archetype

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> By all means, use them for hits but don't buy their clothes, Moe!

tailfeather

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> I love you for this, Moe.
And my ass is available should you ever need to videotape it for some nefarious scheme.
It does not, however, look much like the ass above.

notbetty

]]> <![CDATA[A Letter To American Apparel's Latest Spokesbottom, "Kristen"]]> *wishes she were dead.*

meaghan2k

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