{"id":76,"date":"2005-09-23T15:44:16","date_gmt":"2005-09-23T22:44:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-09-23T15:44:51","modified_gmt":"2005-09-23T15:44:51","slug":"blatantly_offensively_utterly_cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2005\/blatantly_offensively_utterly_cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Blatantly Offensively Utterly Cool"},"content":{"rendered":"
Heads up, this content is 21 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.<\/div>

As my friend Jeremiah recently pointed out, Abercrombie & Fitch has hit a new low in setting trends among high school students. Take a look at their new line of Men’s Sexual Appeal Tees<\/a>. These $30 tight “muscle cut” tees sport such slogans as:SPITTERS ARE QUITTERSBAGHDAD ASS UPWILL SPOON FOR POONYOU BLOW, I’LL POPEATIN AIN’T CHEATINTHIRD BASE COACHJeremiah writes:<\/p>\n

THINK about what these slogans, even taken as ironic or sarcastic, slowly instill into our acceptable social identity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He makes a good point. We’re being systematically desensitized to offensive and stereotyping concepts and this is just another kick in that direction. But is it Abercrombie’s fault?I think this is a perfect example of the “who went here first — the teens or the corporations?” debate. The PBS documentary, Merchants of Cool<\/a> presents it perfectly (you should check it out). Critics blame corporations for corrupting our youth. Corporations claim they’re just offering up what the youth want. The youth, in turn, claim the corporations “don’t get them,” and use their products as a jumping off point to make their “coolness” even more extreme. Corporations counter by jumping forward and marketing the next taboo subculture (to the point of killing its “coolness,” at which point the youth need to jump further ahead again).You can blame whomever you want, but we’re in a vicious cycle of each one trying to outdo the other. There is no end in sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heads up, this content is 21 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.As my friend Jeremiah recently pointed out, Abercrombie & Fitch has hit a new low in setting trends among high school students. Take a look at their new line of Men’s Sexual Appeal Tees. These $30 tight “muscle cut” tees […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}