Where is the closest brandy melville
the end of Brandy Melville
let me just we're gonna start off by
saying a brand that has an Instagram
feed filled with no people of color will
not be addressing black lives matter if
they do they better change the image of
their entire brand to reflect what they
claim to believe improve that change is
sincere otherwise it's called damage
control some of you may have seen this
video in which I didn't directly address
race really I was scared of making
assumptions and of being wrong and that
I apologize for because avoiding talking
about racism for the fear of getting it
wrong isn't constructive also the
evidence is more than clear and this
video is long overdue we can argue about
the size of the clothing all we want but
at the end of the day brandy melville
literally chose a race as a part of an
aesthetic to brand their basic ass one
size clothing and market this image to
millions of teenage girls I want to give
an e D warning right now because topics
later discussed in this video may be
triggering the fact that I have to even
preface talking about a clothing brand
with an eating disorder warning some
might justify Brandis discrimination by
saying they are an Italian brand but
keep in mind that brandy has gone
international with stores all over the
world and customers all over the world
the fact that your Instagram feed looks
like this means you are going out of
your way not to represent people of
color just in my opinion you know it's
very easy to represent people of
different skin tones unless you are
racist you really just have to be going
out of your way here but don't worry
guys the two white men that run brandy
melville literally have no moves left if
they speak out they look like hypocrites
and people will hate them if they don't
speak out which they won't they also get
cancelled if they speak out and try to
prove how much they've changed just like
how don't changed suddenly after its
scandal it's
still gonna look like damage control
which it is the only way brandy can
survive is if you know we all just
ignore the whole racism thing and keep
buying same variation of their tank tops
so yeah you know what it's not my place
to tell you where it is shop but also
read the room brandy melville is not a
petite clothing brand real petite
clothing brands have a range of sizes
just like plus-sized clothing brands do
brandy melville is one size fits all
having the occasional large t-shirt or
sweatshirt which is literally meant to
fit oversized does not make brandy size
inclusive having an occasional size
medium in jeans also does not make
brandy size inclusive it would be fine
if they didn't use size as a tactic to
generate hype and create insecurities to
profit off many companies create
insecurities and profit off of them I
continuously get these advertisements on
Instagram or YouTube of these body shape
likings I couldn't find the exact
commercial but this one is identical and
it scares me here the girl has her
stomach fat showing she is clearly
distressed and unhappy about it this is
telling your brain subconsciously that
having this fat is ugly it creates an
insecurity that you shouldn't have this
fat then the girl pulls up her leggings
and she is now smiling and happy this is
telling you if you purchase the product
you'll fix your insecurities of having
this fat you'll fix the insecurities
that this advertisement literally
created so that you would buy this
product when you buy a product you are
buying the person the product promises
to make you skinny is already a beauty
standard the media already idealizes
female celebrities that are white tall
and thin it's almost become normal to
face tuned Photoshop your insta photos
and honestly it's justified because of
how unattainable Beauty is
these days we're all just trying to
catch up to it as a girl you are told
your physical appearance means the world
and you should focus on that instead of
anything else and so we do and when we
do everyone gets mad at us for having
plastic surgery for face tuning for
being materialistic because all these
products we buy promise Beauty brandy
exploits and in turn perpetuates the
standard by creating exclusivity through
hiring based off physical appearance as
well as how they brand themselves this
implies that we should all strive to be
white tall and thin and since we are all
different colors shapes and sizes the
majority of us which do not fit that
standard will feel the added pressure of
needing to I'm not saying brandy
melville is the cause of eating
disorders but they certainly are not
against the media subjecting
impressionable girls to unattainable
standards of beauty instead they take
advantage of the existing negative
self-image and perpetuate it for profit
not fitting a beauty standard does not
mean you are less than fitting a beauty
standard does not mean you are more than
I do not want to see body shaming in the
comments I do not want to see a divide
of who fits and who doesn't this is
exactly what they want if we continue to
fight each other we are not paying
attention to the two white men knowingly
responsible for feeding insecurities to
girls to the point where eating
disorders are associated with their
brand perpetuating one image of beauty
stealing vintage designs going out of
their way to exclude people of color
being complicit in situations of
injustice and profiting off all of this
next color I'm definitely not a saint I
know it's like shocking I have shopped
at Brandi I have shopped at other
definitely horrible places but I've
realized I think we're all definitely
privileged enough to choose not to
contribute to fast fashion in general
the choice is there it's not that hard
to do and I have no excuse to not try at
least a lot of you guys a lot of you
guys want more brandi videos from me and
I know that's what you signed up for but
I think I've said all I need to say but
that's okay because I have other party
tricks up my sleeve and I know I suck I
don't make videos often I take a lot of
breaks it's okay if you don't like that
but if you want to suggest other things
let me know in the comments I love you
guys so much and I'll see you in five
months
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