Dear Mr. Jeffries (Abercrombie & Fitch):
I heard about the ugly way you’ve been worshipping
“pretty”…
I can’t say I’m at all surprised
THIS
Coming from an empire who sells clothing by using as
little of it as possible in its advertisements
Yeah…I get it…Sex sells
AND I’m no sales person
but I don’t need a set of breasts or a lesson in male
anatomy
to help me shop
I’ve been trying to figure out for years just what it
is you’ve been trying to sell
But you just let us all know today
Lest any of us had any doubts…
A big, ugly LIE with a sexy price tag
That buttons and zips up with a little elbow grease
and denial
You are pushing the drug of false hope that one can
ignore their own power & beauty
By covering it with stone-washed bullshit
You spoke from your heart but it was thoughtless and
we all know what is coming for you now
Those lame garments you hide under are not going to
save you from the attacks you are about to endure
But they will set you free if you are willing to take
off your Abercrombie armour.
I don’t want you to miss what is before you!
There are many lives you can touch with something
real…
Now that you’ve gone and made a public ass of yourself
I hope you find some freedom in that after the pain
starts to settle into your bones
And you remember what made you believe all that crap
you are trying to feed us
So…Mr. Jeffries, my dear brother on this hard-living
earth we share…
Take a look around…and SEE
The kids who are cutting…
The kids who are vomiting themselves into a 6-foot
deep “comfort zone”
The kids who are lured into dark alleys or sleazy
marketing photo shoots
The kids who will enter into adult life and spend the
rest of that life believing they are
weird instead of unique…WRONG instead of BRAVE…
The kids who are one step away from pulling a trigger
on their classmates
The kids who are pushing back suicidal thoughts behind
an exhausted smile
Look into their eyes
SEE
The price of EXCLUSION…
Oh…wait…you are about to experience it fully.
So I leave you with this….
I will be your friend when you have none…
When you are hated and remembered for that one thing
you said and can’t take back
I won’t condone what you said or the mentality behind
it
In fact, I resent it
I have young children with impressionable minds and
you hurt them by what you said and what you sell
But I will…
Love you when you feel excluded and despised by the
rest of the world
Because we all deserve that, now don’t we?
