That brave commentor is gonna get some TRAs up their ass
Butchie68 · June 28, 2020, 10:38 p.m.
They say all over their page now that the boxers are gender fluid and made for everybody. Wasn’t the whole point of them making boxers that they’re specifically for female bodies??? JFC
hanfiyyah · June 28, 2020, 10:51 p.m. · 1 reply
Welp, thanks. Was considering buying from them but nope will take my business elsewhere.
rezkidsinlove · June 28, 2020, 11:05 p.m.
Between TomboyX and Thinx pulling their shit I'm like damn, where am I supposed to buy specialty skivvies now?
fairydream · June 28, 2020, 10:55 p.m. · 1 reply
i just don't get why this particular lie is one that companies/everyone refuse to fact check? why can't just one instagram account/business have the guts to say "hey everyone! oops. we were misinformed. the truth is that ______" like it would be so easy.
rezkidsinlove · June 28, 2020, 11:01 p.m. · 1 reply
Like, I could forgive them, maybe, for being idiots and thinking that Marsha and Sylvia were there and perpetuating THAT lie. Sometimes it's not malicious, and it's just ignorance.
BUT, in the image with the person knitting the banner, Stormie is there among the names listed. THEY OBVIOUSLY KNOW ABOUT HER, but didn't even acknowledge her while writing the caption. She gets shoe-horned under 'so many others'
The person in the comments calls this 'female erasure' for leaving out Storme, and someone replies to her basically saying 'your crying about female erasure makes you sound like a terf!' and just like, FUCK.
LeaveAMsgAfterBeep · June 29, 2020, 8:15 a.m.
This is so frustrating and you have a point but unfortunately...
Companies often use artists or even pay to license art. In truth not all art done for insta is custom, but even if it was just because the artist knows doesn’t mean the company does. The artist would have to work closely with the company owners and talk with them or make it to exact specifications for it to truly mean the company knows and wants to show it. Now should this company, likely owned by someone LGBT (?) know better if they are American? Yeah.
The companies we see on social media today are rarely started or managed by people who generally would use these technologies if not to make money. The revisionist lies make customers happy. None of them have a reason to state the truth, because ethics and money don’t often fall in the same hand. There’s no accountability, and people will believe just about any lie that sounds plausible if you tack the word “history” or a date on it.
billybutchersbabe · June 29, 2020, 7:49 a.m.
That’s a shame, I had wanted to tried some of their products.
That brave commentor is gonna get some TRAs up their ass
They say all over their page now that the boxers are gender fluid and made for everybody. Wasn’t the whole point of them making boxers that they’re specifically for female bodies??? JFC
Welp, thanks. Was considering buying from them but nope will take my business elsewhere.
Between TomboyX and Thinx pulling their shit I'm like damn, where am I supposed to buy specialty skivvies now?
i just don't get why this particular lie is one that companies/everyone refuse to fact check? why can't just one instagram account/business have the guts to say "hey everyone! oops. we were misinformed. the truth is that ______" like it would be so easy.
Like, I could forgive them, maybe, for being idiots and thinking that Marsha and Sylvia were there and perpetuating THAT lie. Sometimes it's not malicious, and it's just ignorance.
BUT, in the image with the person knitting the banner, Stormie is there among the names listed. THEY OBVIOUSLY KNOW ABOUT HER, but didn't even acknowledge her while writing the caption. She gets shoe-horned under 'so many others'
The person in the comments calls this 'female erasure' for leaving out Storme, and someone replies to her basically saying 'your crying about female erasure makes you sound like a terf!' and just like, FUCK.
This is so frustrating and you have a point but unfortunately...
Companies often use artists or even pay to license art. In truth not all art done for insta is custom, but even if it was just because the artist knows doesn’t mean the company does. The artist would have to work closely with the company owners and talk with them or make it to exact specifications for it to truly mean the company knows and wants to show it. Now should this company, likely owned by someone LGBT (?) know better if they are American? Yeah.
It doesn’t help that when companies hire social media managers, they generally are looking at hiring 20-30 somethings informed and oversaturated with misinformation and “insider” knowledge about shit, like the origin of pride, which is now more revision to suit an agenda than truth. There’s nothing wrong with saying Marsha and Sylvia were nearby, or showed up even if it’s sometimes a bit fishy more so with Sylvia since I’m not actually sure when she made it off that bench... but it’s patently false to state either one started the riots at Stonewall and they have corroborated this by their own words. But the real Marsha and real Sylvia are not who these stories are about. They don’t matter as much as the nice story that fits the nice agenda- it’s unfortunate because there were other people of color there and for sure other GNC people... and Stormé herself fits the actual brand of this underwear company 1000x better (I can’t believe I just typed that about an actual human being from history- but the aesthetic of a butch lesbian and an underwear company called tomboy-anything isn’t lost on me). The characters that have become integral to the a-historical revision of stonewall are all about people’s projections. Truth doesn’t matter when lies sell better.
The companies we see on social media today are rarely started or managed by people who generally would use these technologies if not to make money. The revisionist lies make customers happy. None of them have a reason to state the truth, because ethics and money don’t often fall in the same hand. There’s no accountability, and people will believe just about any lie that sounds plausible if you tack the word “history” or a date on it.
That’s a shame, I had wanted to tried some of their products.