By: ginapdx

In reply to Laura Mandanas. No... the fact they're using Le Tigre as music for the commercial and Ellen as "the adult" means zilch. It's totally coincidental. Those corporate Gap people are just altruistic and trying to better society. And the Gap previously using "street cred" advertising campaigns (especially when they were getting a lot of heat for using child worker sweatshops) was just a way of honoring our multi-racial society and not some way of deflecting criticism. Never ceases to amaze me how people who would (rightly) call out Israel for its pinkwashing/progressivewashing ad campaigns lap this up like kitties to milk because... well, it fits their aesthetic and budget. And I still don't understand what the hell Laverne Cox has to do with any of this (was she paid by the Gap or is this an approval of corporate behavior from the gender goddess?) If you're going to include her in an attempt to give The Gap progressive cred, then it IS worth asking why is it that the same parents who would proudly buy these clothes in an instant for their AFAB children cringe if femme clothes were likewise targeted to their AMAB children?