American Apparel Loves The Gheys, Ambiguous Ethnicities
Exploitation: It’s not just for underage cokewhores and faux lesbians! It’s also for (possibly?) faux gay men!
We were innocently trolling Selena Gomez fan forums when what should catch our eye but an American Apparel ad! Featuring two, intertwined, emaciated hipster boys! One of whom is Brown! Or maybe both! We don’t want to be racist! Oh, God!
Anyway, we don’t know whether to be excited by this (And not “excited” like, you know. How we’re excited when we Google “emo boys kissing.” Which we don’t.) because it gives homosexual relationships some (questionably) mainstream exposure / sense of normalcy or devastated that homosexual relationships are now also being exploited by Dov Charney and his perpetually moist mustache.
We will stare at the image a while longer and see how we feel. More fodder for… thinking, after the jump:
We can bearly believe American Apparel is so inclusive of The Otter!
Sorry.
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- Managing Editor
Daniel Mauser
- Editor
Cindy Casares
- Associate Editor
Alex Alvarez
- Contributing Editors
Gabriel Caro - Camilla Rowan
- Video Editor
Marcelo Cunning
The bottom image is from the characteristically pink pages of gay alterna-mag BUTT, which is available from American Apparel stores for the enjoyment of their gay customers.
The models are workers at their manufacturing plant in downtown LA.
I don’t really see it as exploitation, unless I take a view of marketing as exploitation in general.
Posted by I. Gonzalez | August 07, 2008
I’m quite familiar with BUTT, as my old roommate used to leave them lying around our apartment along with his weed and dirty socks.
Posted by ...dijo Alex | August 07, 2008
I alerted child protective services in California to investigate this shocking exploitation of twinks by American Apparel. What they found was heartbreaking. Kathie Lee’s sweatshop was nothing compared to this whore house of molestation and sexual perversity found in the bowels of the downtown LA manufacturing plant. One tattered young bottom who had been serviced by Dov Charney against his will for 40 days and 40 nights, when told he was safe and free and that no one would ever hurt him again, broke down and thanked Guanabee for exposing this travesty and saving his BUTT.
Posted by Patrick | August 08, 2008
I think it’s funny that the magazine is called BUTT and everybody is honoring the all-caps spelling, so it sounds like a lot of people here have a BUTT fixation and think about BUTT a lot, and perhaps are longing for some BUTT even as we speak.
And that’s clearly the same curly-headed guy in both the BOTTOM and TOP categories. if they’re not gonna show him doing himself, at least they should have a third category for switch-hitters. Unless they don’t mind being the BUTT of my jokes. BUTT seriously …
Posted by escobar | August 08, 2008
“We don’t want to be racist! Oh, God!”
so funny.
Posted by IntheBronx | August 08, 2008