by sumac | Oct 17, 2014 | Bropology, Corporate Apologies
An August evening in a small public park in San Francisco’s Mission District. Neighborhood kids playing soccer. A group showed up, saying they had reserved the field for an hour, from 7 till 8pm. They looked like prosperous white guys, an impression their...
by snarly | Sep 30, 2014 | Artistic apologies, Corporate Apologies
Peter V. Brett, a fantasy novelist and dad, got a superhero board game for 6-year-old daughter Cassie. As he wrote on his blog, he was gobsmacked to learn that in a children’s game about DC superheroes and supervillains, made by the established game company...
by sumac | Sep 29, 2014 | Corporate Apologies, Religious Apologies
This apology came from Freethought Today, newspaper of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. FFRF’s legal team writes a lot of letters to city governments, schools, senior centers, and other organizations, reminding them about laws that govern the separation of...
by sumac | Sep 16, 2014 | Corporate Apologies, Fashion Apologies
Urban Outfitters sells some “vintage” clothes as well as new. Used clothes. Mostly shirts from college teams, schools, or amusingly named organizations. Cobleskill Football – $129. Iowa State University – $129. Providence College Hockey Camp – $149. Texas Int’l...
by snarly | Aug 11, 2014 | Bropology, Corporate Apologies, Media Apologies
This morning, the web site Jezebel put up a post calling out its upper management. The post was headlined We Have a Rape Gif Problem and Gawker Media Won’t Do Anything About It. Basically, misogynist trolls have been posting multiple images of gruesome rapes and...
by snarly | Jul 8, 2014 | Bropology, Corporate Apologies
On Twitter yesterday, the Chief Marketing Officer of Equinox Gyms posted this: This wittiness is tied to Equinox’s new campaign, all tied to the notion of “preapology.” (I would hyphenate “pre-apology,” but I am a lowly apology-watcher,...
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