124 points

Oh man, the dude that used photos of practically naked teenagers to decorate his stores is a creepy fuck? I never would have guessed.

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His lawsuit accused Jeffries, Smith, Jacobson and Abercrombie itself of luring attractive young men under the guise of making them an Abercrombie model and then forcing them to take drugs and perform sex acts.

Not just that, he used that very business as bait.

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Yeah, Netflix released a documentary a few years ago called “White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch” that partially addressed what a fucking sleazy guy Mike Jeffries is. While it didn’t get into any claims related to this news, it definitely made it clear that he’s an asshole and solely responsible for Abercrombie’s pivot from being an outdoors oriented clothing brand to selling wildly unrealistic body standards to teenagers at malls in the 2000s. It’s been awhile, but from what I recall, nobody interviewed in the documentary had anything nice to say about him.

And the irony is, Mike Jeffries looks like Gary Busey having a bad hair day, but he would’ve taken one look at me when I was 15 and been like “I don’t want him wearing our clothes, he’s too short and he’s got acne. Gross.” That’s the kind of prick he is. He despises anyone that doesn’t meet his standard of beauty and genuinely did not want “ugly” people wearing A&F.

So I can’t say I’m all that surprised to learn he was doing much more horrific shit behind the scenes, too. And now with this news breaking, I’m just starting the count-down until he gets his own multi-part episode of Behind The Bastards.

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Oh I remember back in the day how A&F got away with only hiring “pretty” people to staff their stores by referring to them as “models.”

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this guy is Diddy’s inspiration

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Is this the guy who said he didn’t want ugly people wearing his ugly clothes? Even though he himself is ugly as sin

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Yep, that’s him. The dude hates ugly people but apparently doesn’t own a mirror. I make a point of not attacking people for their looks, because it can’t be helped, and I’m not exactly Ryan Gosling over here lol… But when you make it the core of your business, then it’s fair game. It’s almost impressive that Mike Jeffries has managed to be uglier on the inside than he is on the outside.

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Did some reading on wikipedia and man this is so surreal. The whole brand sexualizes women and targets specifically kids. Even in that quote, he refers to the good-looking kids specifically.

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5 points

He looks like he’s auditioning to be a vampire in a cheesy 90s movie.

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Never seen a vampire that looked like his teeth would shatter if he tried to eat an unripe avocado though

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He asks potential young victims if they want a “BABY RUTH!!”

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He also fought against having his brand in thift stores because poor people shouldn’t wear Abercrombie

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Such ugly stupid clothes and it’s all covered in gaudy Abercrombie logos, like you’re their billboard

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I thought that was the lululemon guy.

Maybe it was both.

It was probably both.

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25 points

Looks like an albino Harvey Weinstein.

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He also looks like Gary Busey.

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He looks more like Gary Busey than Gary Busey does.

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7 points

More like Gary Abuse-y! ba dum tish

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1 point

Alvey Beinstein

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23 points

Does being rich turn people into rapists or do a disproportionate number of rapists get rich?

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There’s actually been research showing that CEO and other senior executive roles tend to attract a disproportionate amount of people with psychopathic tendencies when compared to the general population.

Here’s an article about it.

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Narcissists have a high self focus, fuck the rest. Makes them perfect to climb up to CEO levels. Kind of the same thing in how so many priests are child molesters

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Being rich enables rapists. There are plenty of average rapists, but they don’t have whole networks grooming victims. And they don’t make more than the local news when they get caught.

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One of the things I have observed is that wealthy people lack empathy for others. Its one of the reasons they make money so easily. When you don’t care about anyone but yourself its easy to screw someone over. The same lack of decency would make raping someone easy.

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We just hear about high profile ones more than regular ones.

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People tend not to chase power and status out of a burning desire to do good by their fellow man.

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quelle surprise

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