It all came to a grinding halt in June of 2018 when Feminist Apparel staff discovered that the brand\u2019s founder and CEO Alan Martofel had an admitted history of sexually abusing women. In fact, he claims it\u2019s the reason why he started the company in the first place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Opportunity to get\u00a0even more woke<\/em>?<\/p>\nOh, what do you think?<\/p>\n
After asking for his resignation, all nine employees were fired without notice or severance.<\/strong> (Only Martfel and an outside consultant remained.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\nI’ve got a conundrum here.\u00a0 On the one hand, it sounds like Marfel is a grade-a piece of garbage.<\/p>\n
On the other hand,\u00a0\u00a0en masse\u00a0<\/em>demands for a company’s\u00a0owner and entrepreneur\u00a0<\/em>to resign from his own company, even given the backstory seems a little…<\/p>\n…well, I’ll let one of the victims tell it in her own words:<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the patriarchy and toxic masculinity at its fucking finest,\u201d says Rebecca Green, the company\u2019s now-former art director.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
(Pro tip:\u00a0 it’s not “masculinity” at al).<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel righteous and angry. I feel supported by my coworkers and friends. I also feel tired. I feel incredibly sorry knowing that there are survivors in this office who were led to believe that their contributions to this company were directly going to creating a safe space and platform for survivors, feminists, and marginalized identities. As an artist myself creating work based on my own experiences with the patriarchy, toxic masculinity, and harassment for this company \u2014 and by extension this man \u2014 I feel used and willfully mislead.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Is it wrong to hope everyone in this story gets a smack upside the rhetorical head?<\/p>\n
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You’re millennial New Money\u00a0 fad-apparel “entrepreneur”. You’re so woke, you name your entire company “Feminist Apparel”.\u00a0 \u00a0You become a staple of the woke PC elite, worn by the glitterati at events ranging from the March for Women to…er, the Women’s March.\u00a0 And everything in between. And then complications arise: It all came to a grinding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67411,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67407\/revisions\/67411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}