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    Urban Outfitters sucks because

    « H E politics :: email
    posted Monday, 4 June 2007
    1. They are in malls now. Not very urban. More like Suburban Outfitters. I remember back when the store actually was located only in urban areas—DC’s Georgetown neighborhood, Chicago’s Miracle Mile—and only in storefronts. Now it’s in the mall. A mall is not urban, even if it is in a city. A mall is a piece of suburbia in the middle of a city.
    2. The owner has made donations of over $10,000 to Rick Santorum of man-on-dog fame, which completely undermines any “gay friendly” vibes the store tries to put out. Basically, as Isebrand.com puts it so eloquently, “money generated by [Urban Outfitters and sister company Anthropologie] goes to support politicians like Sen. Rick Santorum.” What’s particularly obnoxious is that Urban Outfitters tries to appeal to liberals and then takes the money those liberals spend in their stores and turns around and gives it to anti-abortion, anti-gay rights causes.

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    1. Mike left...
    Monday, 4 June 2007 9:44 pm :: http://ww.vitia.org/

    Haven't they sucked for a long time now? I mean, they're a chain that institutionalizes suburban white teenage lazy fantasies and apathy, from their blatantly racist "Ghettopoly" game of 2003 to their "voting is for old people" t-shirt.

    Urban Outfitters is to edgy and hip as Hot Topic is to goth and punk.


    2. Elizabeth Kleinfeld left...
    Tuesday, 5 June 2007 6:33 am

    Mike, exactly. I didn't include it in my post because I didn't have time to look for back up data, but I also think they have been accused of using T-shirt designs by "little guys" and not giving credit or $$.