Your quote o' the day

[tikistitch]

Words of encouragement from Mike Jeffries, Abecrombie & Fitch's ultra-kewl, bright-teethed, flip-flop wearin' CEO dude, as interviewed by Salon.com:

As far as Jeffries is concerned, America's unattractive, overweight or otherwise undesirable teens can shop elsewhere. "In every school there are the cool and popular kids, and then there are the not-so-cool kids," he says. "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 our clothes], and they can't belong...."

Comments

[lilblueunicorn.livejournal.com]

That guy can bite the ass of every fat kid in America. >_> Bastard.

-§parky

[deadluckkingdom.livejournal.com]

wow asshole award

[angelwolf24.livejournal.com]

Bastard.. he looks so fake and nasty. He has no right to talk about what's "unattractive". He's a freak of nature, imho.

[stitch-vicious.livejournal.com]

Wanker of the Year material right there.

Sad thing is that this type of superficiality seems to prevail. And it even goes beyond "cool" looking clothing. I've seen people in plain simple cotton shirts with the A&F logo. These people actually shell out over $25 just to get a simple tee to whore the logo. I think that's worse than buying ripped jeans or pre-stained polo shirts for $60.

[stitch-vicious.livejournal.com]

OT, but I love your icon! That's one of my favorite Barb shots from The Batman.

[girlontheleft.livejournal.com]

Candidly, my ass. I think A&F's target market is actually the catty, nasty social-climber teens, the ones who are just below the top of the social food chain. They're still popular enough to influence the bulk of the population (where all the money is) and they'll mock anyone below them for anything, including wearing the wrong brand. And they'll fall for any trendy piece of crap that promises them popularity and exclusivity.

The "attractive all-American kid with a great attitude and a lot of friends" doesn't generally need to worry about what brand of clothing he's wearing.

[dustbunnies.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Why cant that store go out of busniess. That guy looks like he was one of the people in school hes mocking, and this is the only way he could come up with to feel like he was a "cool kid".

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

Doesn't he look....creepy? Like he OD's on botox or something....

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

As someone who was a total pariah in a high school full of snotty white kids who were self-important, wealthy sons and daughters of state politicians, as far as I'm concerned, this asshat can go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut. That's what I think. :D

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

"All-American" is still code for "white," right?

[yarol-2075.livejournal.com]

"All-American" is still code for "white," right?

Yep, unless you're an athlete, then they'll make an exception for you as long as you keep leading whatever sports team you're on to victory.

I'd say I want to kick that man but he looks like he would shatter from the botox and I'd have all greasy, slimy gunk on my shoe. >_

[loli-cat.livejournal.com]

As my sainted grandmother said; those who can't do, teach, or in this case, solicit!

God but his face makes me want to shoot it with a BB gun just to see how big it would SPLAT!! ^o^

[loli-cat.livejournal.com]

Amen to that! My friends & I in HS didn't give a fig what labels were on the clothes we wore (and we made fun of those who were obsessed with it!)! ^o^

[loli-cat.livejournal.com]

His pic actually reminds me of a guy from my HS class - at the reunion he was STILL the buff, preening jock...sad 'cause he was so old and doesn't have anything BUT his appearance (no lights on upstairs, if you know what I mean...)

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

Words cannot express my desire to repeatedly whack his smug face with a Louisville slugger. (I have on right here...)

I'd like to mention that he looks like Gary Busey...after far too many colligen and botox treatments. Can he feel anything in his cheeks any more?

And this reminds me of this other Salon article. Mostly it's on how Torrid fills a niche by selling cool, trendy clothing to overweight teens - which is a great idea and helps their self-esteem. But right in the middle there's this: A few critics even go so far as to say that stores like Torrid -- precisely by catering to, and even glamorizing, the plus sizes -- could be contributing to the problem. The problem being obesity. In other words, making clothes that overweight teens look good and feel better about themselves "glamorizes" obsity. I guess the idea is that if you're fat you should just wear frumpy sack dresses only because otherwise you'd make being fat too attractive.

Okay, now my blood pressure is exploding.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

....And if we let them show Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming, all the cowboys will turn Teh Gay!!!!

O for the glamorous life of a chubby teen..... Wait a minute, been there--done that.

[igrrl.livejournal.com]

That picture looks like he's trying *too* hard to look cool, which translates into looser. It doesn't help that he's a complete jerk too.

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

Being a teen is all just a wonderful glamourious life. Except for all the angst, hormones, peer pressure, acne, etc. We were all just jolly happy beams of sunshine.

And I'm the Queen of Moravia.

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

OMG I just looked at the interview and HIS FACE IS WAY SCARY. Everyone else has already said this, but he looks like Super Hyper Botox Paraffin Wax Museum Man.

I bet that's the only facial expression he can assume, too.

He looks like a really bad Ken doll.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

Super Hyper Botox Paraffin Wax Museum Man.

LOL.

It's hard to know what to do in a case like this. The guy's obviously mentally ill, but anything you could do to criticize the company will just make them seem more transgressive and daring and thus make them even more attractive to the idiots who buy their clothes.