Sexism and Slacks

It seems Levi Strauss & Co. no longer wants my business. This is really frustrating, as for at least a decade I relied on them as making decent, affordable garments for my lower body which fit me well without a lot of hassle. Now, not only is this no longer true, but they've decided they can't advertise effectively without being ludicrously insulting to vast swaths of the population.

rm points me to their ad campaign for their Dockers trousers, which made me angry enough I sent them the following note at their contact page:

I am completely appalled by your "MAN-IFESTO". Disappointed, that you are making it more difficult for me to buy your products. Angry, that you thought it was a good idea to insult me and my friends with this gender-essentialist, anti-feminine, man-hating tripe.

I have been wearing both Dockers and Levi's jeans for almost fifteen years now. I'm a repeat customer, and I'm a man. It's coming time to do some replacing, and, as I refuse to support this terrible message with my hard-earned money, I fear I will have to shop around with your competitors. Hopefully there's someone who makes a decent men's trouser and doesn't feel the need to sell it with personal attacks against me and the people I love. You are clearly not that company.

Sincerely,

Marc, an ex-satisfied customer

On top of that, as I think I mentioned a few months ago in this journal, I've discovered they no longer make their garments true to fit [if they ever did]. They also seem no longer to make a jean with the fit I like [even if it were my size, which they don't make]. Anybody have any suggestions for non-evil brands to try for either slacks or jeans?

Cool!

When did Dreamwidth sneak the "Quote" button into the comment editor?

I'm still not all that big on application-in-your-browser type stuff, but this gets points for making a tool that directly addresses a common task one might want to perform and makes it easier for the user. Go Dreamwidth devteam.

Because you needed one more way to contact me

As it required minimal effort on my part and might someday help someone get in touch with me, I've turned on LJTalk.

As with the other IM-type services I use, I'm just going to leave it logged in all the time. Feel free to use it if that's convenient for you.

I'm experimenting with the feature that lets some notifications come as IMs rather than as emails....it's a nice idea; we'll see if I actually end up liking it.