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MineralMan

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4. I'm shocked! The ad is clearly designed to make
Fri May 17, 2013, 01:45 PM
May 2013

women steal their boyfriends plaid flannel shirts. It's happening all over the world, and it didn't just start in 2013, either. Even in high school back in the early 1960's I had a plaid shirt taken from me, right off my back, by my girlfriend, who was not even decent enough to wear it in private. She'd show up at school, brazenly wearing my shirt, with two buttons undone, too. And then she'd expect me to walk around holding her hand and stuff. I suggested several times that she let me remove that shirt, besides. She would not comply. She took my class ring, too. Girls!

It's still going on, too. I was hanging up clothes after doing the laundry last weekend, and what did I find? Nothing less than three of my plaid flannel shirts hanging in my wife's closet.

It's a crime, I tell you, and it's escalating, thanks to ads like these.

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Swedes slam American Apparel over 'sexist' ads [View all] The Straight Story May 2013 OP
If you wear American Apparel it will make you young and thin and sexy. milestogo May 2013 #1
and how is this different from any other advertising campaign dlwickham May 2013 #2
Same idea as much marketing, but they take it farther... milestogo May 2013 #13
Apparently they've been doing this for YEARS. The owner is short on couth, apparently. MADem May 2013 #16
Shocking! Capitalists use sex to sell stuff?? Somebody call Don Draper! Tierra_y_Libertad May 2013 #3
I'm shocked! The ad is clearly designed to make MineralMan May 2013 #4
Well you have one part right MattBaggins May 2013 #11
their models always look like they are on the verge of death by starvation nt msongs May 2013 #5
Yes, because SWEDES would NEVER use a person's BODY to sell garments... MADem May 2013 #6
He has a handsome face. Men don't know this about women.. DevonRex May 2013 #9
I'll bet if he'd had a gut and a flabby ass he wouldn't have landed that commercial, though! MADem May 2013 #14
I will not buy anything from them until the male model is gorgeous and half naked too. DevonRex May 2013 #7
Seems that few here notice (or care about) the difference in the way men and women are shown redqueen May 2013 #8
I would hold the door for both MattBaggins May 2013 #10
ZOMG!!!! Is that a ........... NAVEL that is visible? Nye Bevan May 2013 #12
They are killing girls and some of the guys olddots May 2013 #15
I have always thought their models looked kind of skanky. smirkymonkey May 2013 #17
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