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    Image of cassandra cassandra
    11/11/09

    In reply to American Apparel in Mortifying Nipple-Reveal
    More shocking: the stretch marks on her hip. #americanapparel
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    11/11/09

    @cassandra: At least someone doesn't airbrush their models. It's almost as if they're people. #americanapparel
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    11/13/09

    @ostartero: This is the beginning of a strange trend. #americanapparel
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    Image of SpyMagician SpyMagician
    11/11/09

    In reply to American Apparel in Mortifying Nipple-Reveal
    At least she has the good sense to cloak that alluring neck. I only hope the ankles are properly covered as well, lest shopkeepers be distracted as she walks down the street. #americanapparel
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    Image of Hamilton Nolan Hamilton Nolan
    11/11/09

    In reply to American Apparel in Mortifying Nipple-Reveal
    Was this post really too subtle? #americanapparel
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    Image of Gabriel Snyder Gabriel Snyder
    11/11/09

    @Hamilton Nolan: Subtly and American Apparel don't ever mix. Somewhere Dov Charney is laughing. #americanapparel
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    Image of DTurkin DTurkin
    11/11/09

    In reply to American Apparel in Mortifying Nipple-Reveal
    I prefer to see nipples than someone giving birth. #americanapparel
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    Image of RonMwangaguhunga RonMwangaguhunga
    11/11/09

    @DTurkin: This was like an eye bath #americanapparel
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    11/11/09

    In reply to American Apparel in Mortifying Nipple-Reveal
    Oh, geez. They're almost dainty. I could see if they were like huge cow utters ready to slap you in the forehead. These are like junior-nips. Not really classy, classy, but in terms of obscenity from American Apparel, I was expecting much more...like nipples, socks, a puddle of milk and nothing else in the shot. #americanapparel
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    11/11/09

    In reply to American Apparel in Mortifying Nipple-Reveal
    At least, they are very nice looking nipples. #americanapparel
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/11/09

    In reply to American Apparel in Mortifying Nipple-Reveal
    It's intentional. Nips are a fact, HamNo.

    Team Nip Display Banish the Padded Bra Bring Back the Balcony Corset #americanapparel
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    11/11/09

    In reply to American Apparel in Mortifying Nipple-Reveal
    Thousands of years ago Victoria's Secret showed nipples quite freely. They also showed pubic hair back when women had it.

    Women do have nipples after all and this is honest advertising. If you have nipples and you wear this garment, then your nipples will show.

    Why Barbie-ize us all? #americanapparel
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    11/11/09

    @Tart of Darkness: pubic hair? what's that? #americanapparel
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    11/11/09

    @PrincessOfPower: I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you. #americanapparel
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    Image of topsy topsy
    11/11/09

    @Tart of Darkness: I actually agree with what you said but I really don't think American Apparel was trying to make a feminist statement. In fact, I don't think anyone at American Apparel know how to SPELL feminist. If the model's nipples were exposed it's probably because the sad folks at American Apparel got off on the 'naughtiness' of it all. #americanapparel
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    11/11/09

    @topsy: Well, what's wrong with that?

    I can't believe I'm defending AA, but a little naughtiness never hurt anybody. And neither did being turned on by it. If we weren't turned on by naughtiness, nobody would bother having sex and the species would have died out a long time ago. #americanapparel
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    11/11/09

    @badasscat: I can't believe that you're defending AA either. #americanapparel
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    11/11/09

    @topsy: Well, I agree they are not intending to make a feminist statement but I really don't have a problem with the lack of air-brushing. Back in the late 70s/early 80s sometimes lingerie models in newspaper ads had visible nipples. Why have we decided that feminist = prudish while at the same time feminist = promiscuity, too?

    I find today's sexuality confusing. We are supposed to faint and scream at the sight of a nipple in a catalog, but have sex freely as we choose with as many people as we like.

    And for men it's even more confusing. They are all supposed to be addicted to porn, masturbate furiously on an hourly basis while hoping to get laid and this all at the same time that they pretend not to notice any sexual features on the woman they are standing next to on a bus.

    And I'd like to say I can't believe I'm defending AA either even as I'm starting to wonder why I'm supposed to defame them. #americanapparel
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    11/11/09

    @Tart of Darkness: Thanks for the lecture on modern sexuality. Believe it or not I have no problems with nipples; I even have two of my own. What I do have a problem with is AA (who a lot of people are willing to go to the wall for) make a shitload of money out of appealing to the pimply adolescent in so many. 'Oooo look! Nipples! How edgy! How cutting edge.' Please. I prefer not to participate in Mr. Charney jerk-off fantasies, but feel free. The sight of barely-legal models (or those who just LOOK that way) flashing their pink bits for Dov's pleasure and profit makes me a bit queasy. But like I said, feel free.
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    11/11/09

    In reply to American Apparel in Mortifying Nipple-Reveal
    Well, twice does represent the usual complement.

    Oh, you meant two separate models. (Second one makes my neck hurt.) #americanapparel
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    11/11/09

    @naugahydeinplainsight: The second picture's a little strange, but then again I'm totally stumped about a more effective way to sell bow ties and suspenders to women. I think in this case just plain distracting from the product is the only reasonable choice. #americanapparel
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    11/11/09

    @Z und Vielpunkt's chick: ...and I just ordered a dozen of each. I'm such a sucker.
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    Edited by Z und Vielpunkt's chick at 11/11/09 11:58 AM Z und Vielpunkt's chick was starred Z und Vielpunkt's chick was unstarred
    Image of Don Servillas Don Servillas
    11/03/09

    In reply to Anderson Cooper's Boyfriend: The Shirtless Edition
    I don't understand some gay men. Some are gifted like this one, a CUNY scholar with a 4.0 GPA, yet he got stuck in the chelsea gay stereotype of being a steroid queen and posing almost naked in gay magazines and owning a gay bar! I mean c'mon, if you are gifted with intelligence and talent, why not go out and change the world? I guess the superficial life of gay glitz, glamour and circuit parties is just too enticing for some. #benjaminmaisani
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    Image of mostlymartian mostlymartian
    11/03/09

    @Don Servillas: How many people are really changing the world at their job? There are lots of high flying lucrative careers that have lots of superficiality and don't make the world a better place.

    He's his own boss, he's not stuck in cubicle-land, he works with friends, and he's around cute gay guys. He and his partners maintain nice bodies they sometimes use in ways to help promote their small business. Maybe he put fun over ambition, but I'm not seeing how his life path is so horrible. #benjaminmaisani
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    Image of Alessar Alessar
    11/04/09

    @mostlymartian: I'm not either. If you're making a good living and enjoying life... that's fantastic. In comparison I took my near 4.0 gpa and got a dead end office job and a spare tire. #benjaminmaisani
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    11/03/09

    In reply to Anderson Cooper's Boyfriend: The Shirtless Edition
    Schweaty! #benjaminmaisani
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    Image of jok695 jok695
    11/03/09

    In reply to Anderson Cooper's Boyfriend: The Shirtless Edition
    Hear, hear! to MessiahsHandle. As a fan of the Coop, I've been surprised at the choice of mates he's been associated with. Sounds totally snotty, but welcome to the real world. An Ivy Leaguer and so-called world respected journalist traipsing about with cookie cutter wine salesmen (Julio) and bartenders (Ben)? Is there such a shortage of gay men who can match him point for point in terms of refinement and education? Lucky boys these guys who get to marry WAY above their stations, and only because of the way they look. I supposed Andy is truly gay after all. Typical shallow looksist elitist queen.
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    11/03/09

    @jok695: AC has actually gone up a few notches in my book for this kinda thing. Hell, he's human. I think I'd be more apt to call him shallow/lookist/elitist if I had to open up the styles of the times and see his wedding photos to some other huge media freak such as the trump/kushner nuptials from a week ago. Slum on silver fox! #benjaminmaisani
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    11/03/09

    @jok695: Dating someone you're attracted to doesn't make you shallow. But I wonder how the Coop and Maisani can have a normal relationship when Maisani is tending bar into the wee hours of the night each night including weekends. They must be on totally different schedules. #benjaminmaisani
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    mostlymartian promoted this comment Zira was starred Zira was unstarred
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    11/03/09

    @Oryx Hearts Crake: Maisani has been doing very little of the bartending at his bar for months. He has bartending partners and staff bartenders. He's seen out all the time doing things with AC. #benjaminmaisani
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    11/03/09

    @jok695: You actually sound like the elitist one. "Above their stations"? Are we in the 1800s?

    Cooper is a well travelled guy who comes across as very down to earth for a wealthy famous Vanderbilt. What's the big deal what if he's attracted to immigrants working common jobs instead of American Ivy League captains of industry?

    Lookism? Julio and Ben look like cute and fit guys in their 30s but I doubt either one of them has been fighting off modelling contracts. #benjaminmaisani
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    Image of MincnglyWhrdL'mer MincnglyWhrdL'mer
    11/03/09

    In reply to Anderson Cooper's Boyfriend: The Shirtless Edition
    this is hysterical. he's actually much better looking in person, and (in my limited experience) surprisingly NICE #benjaminmaisani
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    Image of MessiahsHandle MessiahsHandle
    11/03/09

    In reply to Anderson Cooper's Boyfriend: The Shirtless Edition
    When I heard that the Coop was dating this guy it was as if something inside had died... forgive the melodrama, but I believe in this case it's warranted. You imagine that a smart, successful journalist would chose someone who was worthy of...at the very least, my intellectual fantasy. An equally smart and successful gay, quiet, maybe bookish, or perhaps a designer or artist - not tortured, but focused and independent. Someone who's able to stand on his own whilst Anderson is braving hurricanes on the gulf coast or dodging bullets in Waziristan...but alas Coop you consistently choose the stereotypical gays. Hunky boricuas, twinky latinos, and now a muscly beefcake beau hunk who straddles the line between Sean Cody and Honcho... more often shirtless than shirted..AND owner of a gay bar? Really, Andy? He can't even publicly declare he's gay, but chooses time and time again to shop at the Duplex? It's all so terribly cliché. Well enough is enough, my celebrity crush is officially over...That's "Se acabo" to you, Anderson. Ok Maisani was the valedictorian at CUNY, but I think the naked arm wrestling, the fondling of drag queens, the perpetual shirtlessness has nullified what little respect I may have had for the man. This guy had better be a fucking closeted Proust scholar before I regain any respect for the Coop. But somehow I fear that it's just too late, baby.
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    Image of MincnglyWhrdL'mer MincnglyWhrdL'mer
    11/03/09

    @MessiahsHandle: I'm sure coop is devistated to have lost you. really. #benjaminmaisani
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    11/03/09

    @MessiahsHandle: Pretty much all the male celebrity gays choose partners substantially less successful than themselves, no? The closest thing to a power couple I can think of is Siegried and Roy, and I don't even know if they're actually a couple.

    Dating someone opposite to you in some ways can be good. Two repressed quiet whitebread WASPs would be one really repressed quiet whitebread household. And would a bookish designer be up for things like shark diving and the Real Housewives of Atlanta? #benjaminmaisani
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    11/03/09

    @MessiahsHandle: Save it for your therapist, buddy. #benjaminmaisani
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    11/03/09

    @MessiahsHandle: Yeah. That. All those words you typed. Or, you know, the guy might be an extraordinarily loving person, which is exactly what Anderson Cooper is looking for. #benjaminmaisani
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    11/03/09

    @mostlymartian:
    " The closest thing to a power couple I can think of is Siegried and Roy, "

    The original American gay power couple were J Edgard Hoover and Clyde Tolson.

    They ruled (and completely transformed) law enforcement in this country for 4 decaddes. #benjaminmaisani
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    valet_of_the_dolls promoted this comment Mariallena was starred Mariallena was unstarred
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    11/04/09

    @MessiahsHandle: CUNY scholar with 4.0 GPA who owns his own business (albeit a bar/club) is not exactly a himbo. #benjaminmaisani
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    Image of Zira Zira
    11/02/09

    In reply to Anderson Cooper's Boyfriend: The Shirtless Edition
    The man dressed in drag in photo no. 5 in the original gallery is Anderson Cooper. (I'm surprised noone else noticed.) #benjaminmaisani
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    mostlymartian promoted this comment Zira was starred Zira was unstarred
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    11/02/09

    @Oryx Hearts Crake: No, it's not Anderson Cooper in no. 5. That would have made quite a story, though. #benjaminmaisani
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    11/02/09


    @mostlymartian: i don't know...look at the 'chick's' nose and then at Anderson's nose in this pic #benjaminmaisani
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    mostlymartian promoted this comment xyzpdq was starred xyzpdq was unstarred
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    11/03/09

    @xyzpdq: AC has a thinner face, a more pointed nose tip, and much paler skin.

    More importantly the guy in the pic is man named Stephen (who posted about it here: [stephenrader.blogspot.com] ). #benjaminmaisani
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