be nice to cotton plants

Today was our first school day with snow. I wore my snowflake sweater from Abercrombie and Fitch to celebrate this event in the weather. Primary grade students react to that in a positive way, we don’t dress fruity because we enjoy it – there is a lesson involved in everything.

I bring up the sweater, not because I look like a giant six-year-old in this sweater but because people don’t like Abercrombie and Fitch and think I shouldn’t wear their stuff because their parent corporation is evil.

What clothing company is righteous? No one can tell me that. I heart capitalism but corporations aren’t by nature righteous entities, they make money and that is rarely a kind process. Where then should I buy my clothing? Should I grow my own cotton and cultivate my own sheep so that I could make my own cloth and then clothing?

I could make my own cloth and then my own clothing but lets be honest, I’d oppress the cotton plants and then I’d be just as bad as those job providing corporations that never pretended to be anything BUT multinational corporations out to make money. If you want to be a good, good person and not buy those things go ahead but don’t expect me to care for one second about the plight of others when there is no plausible alternative AND I don’t think for a minute that my refusal to buy things from a company HELPS workers, it only HURTS them. There are better ways to be the change in the world you want to see.

It’s this or nudity folks and it boils down to, “The oppression you see and the oppression you hear about.”