A New York Times investigation alleges that the company’s senior executives talked about women in a degrading way – but it has always treated women as commodities
What to make of the New York Times’ exposé of Victoria’s Secret at the weekend?
Meredith, by email
You mean the article claiming that senior executives at the company talked about women in a degrading way, and at least one – the former chief marketing officer Ed Razek – harassed the models and demanded sexual favours from them? (He denies the allegations.) What, a tacky lingerie company that puts women in geisha outfits – and, if they’re black, leopard print with tribal marks – to sell bras turns out to be less than ethical? That instead of “celebrating” women, as it claimed, it saw them as mere commodities to be exploited? Colour me astonished.
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