If you’re not familiar with American Apparel founder Dov Charney then, hey! You probably don’t have syphilis. Anyway, all you need to know is that he’s literally behind all those porny American Apparel ads that make you wonder if maybe you are a pedophile and he once masturbated in front of an interviewer. He loves his employees except the Mexican ones who actually make his clothing, whom he likes ok but doesn’t, like, “like” like. But the white ones who work in his stores? Loves them. In a wholly vertically integrated way, winknudge. Just watch the cartoon and try not to laugh so hard you’ll soak your ‘tard.

Now that we’ve all had a laugh at how vile Charney is, let’s spoon in our comfy hotpants and discuss what the impact of such humor might be. Does it lessen the hideousness of Charney’s sexist behavior? By laughing at him, are we effectively laughing with him? While we definitely think humor is a useful way to get a point across, we worry that it can work to make problems seem less immediate or grave as they deserve to be. We’re all for laughing at what a pig Charney is, but not to the point that turns into a caricature of a disgusting person rather than an actual disgusting person who does real harm to his employees and impressionable consumers.