Posted on 12/01/2003 1:10:03 PM PST by nickcarraway
Jeffries has been exceedingly arrogant and smug on this matter. I'd like to return to A & F as a customer, but haven't been able to for years. Time to compliment A & F for their better judgement and corporate responsibility.
Ahem: ...and current team owner of 2 recent NASCAR champions.
Gibbs has built his reputation on toughness and unflinching public dedication to his morals, ethics, and religion. His position as a NASCAR powerbroker makes him not just another idealogue, but a major player in the world of advertising and corporate sponsorship and image.
Does this mean they won't sell more subscriptions, as well as not selling individual copies? As long as it's available at all, they're still a pornography retailer. And I noticed the store in the mall on Saturday. If the pictures were "toned down," I'd hate to see how they looked to start with!
Yep. Usually two token girls surrounded by 12 guys, who didn't seem to be paying attention to the girls.
Ask any gay in New York about the "Abercrombie Boys" and you will see that they don't exactly make most of their money from modeling...
I would respectfully disagree. I will not buy merchandise from A&F, and I suggest that a boycott continue. Here's why:
The corporate "culture" that thought it was a reasonable business practice to sell underage sex (or at least the appearance of underage sex) has not changed, the only difference between today and yesterday is that today, the A&F command structure understands that they cannot publish questionable material and call it a "Catalog". The same people who OKed this decision are still in charge and will be making decisions for A&F in the future. There has been no accountability for the depravity of A&F's marketing campaign. I believe that economic pressure should be placed upon A&F until the stockholders vote out the pedophiles who actually thought there would be a consequence-free environment for peddling smut. One can only imagine the corporate thought process -
"What's the worst that can happen? A couple thousand right-wing religious wackos get bent out of shape. If enough of them call, we'll just stop selling the thing, but in the meantime, Oh boy! The publicity!"
I have never believed it is a corporation's responsibility to be behave morally or ethically. But I will only support those companies whose leaders are demostrably moral or ethical; or, at the very worst, don't bank on pornography to sell either catalogs or that company's image.
Let's not stop kicking the wanna-be child pornographers now that they're down.
I'll never pay for porn when you can get it for free.
I respectfully disagree. Just as I expect corporate America to be responsible not to dump raw sewage in the local river, I expect them not to add dump on the culture either. Just as I expect coporations to follow GAAP, SEC rules, etc......
A corporation is nothing more than a piece of paper, real assets, and its employees. It's the employees as individuals that I expect to behave ethically. Through that moral behaviour as a person comes a moral direction and behaviour for the company. A corporation, as a statutory entity, should be expected to behave legally, hence the need for, as you rightly suggest, anti-dumping statutes, the SEC, et al.
I say it mirrors some constitutional questions because of the tension the government is constantly under to behave either in a way that is consistent with our Constitution (generally believed to be an enduring document - nevermind this "penumbra"/"aura"/"borealis" or whatever liberals are calling it these days), or in a way that is consistent with an ethical viewpoint. That poses a danger to society when the "ethical" viewpoint turns out to be something like "A woman's right to choose to abort her child is paramount, even when that child is moments away from being born."
That is not to say that both cannot be one and the same sometimes, but then sometimes they're not.
Just a thought...
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