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nariarts

Longtime readers may be aware of how much I relish an excuse to bully a company, so I'm sharing the wealth;

Clothing company Patagonia is currently sueing drag queen Pattie Gonia for "irreparable” harm to their brand.

To be clear; Pattie named herself after the region in South America.

So Pattie is asking people to politely ask Patagonia to drop the lawsuit.

I'm extending the invitation to all of you, because sueing a drag queen for 'infringement' in the current political cultural landscape is vile. Especially a drag queen who has raised millions of dollars for non-profits, uses her platform to raise awareness for climate activism, and fully aligns with Patagonia's apparent climate-conscious mission statement.

They're claiming they're sueing for $1. They're actually asking her to stop using her name, and pay over $1 million in legal fees. They're straight up harassing her.

In contrast, drag queen Jan Sport has a Jansport bag line. It's that easy to just... work with a queen.

Anyway. Be respectful(ish), but feel free to be annoying on Patagnoia's socials, asking them to 'DROP THE LAWSUIT'

I think they have a twitter and tiktok too!

This is being discussed heavily on Bluesky, such as here.

Patagonia is suing specifically for trademark infringement, and they're suing for the sum of $1. If they don't sue, then that means they could lose the trademark. They aren't trying to "silence" them or prevent them from using the name, they're specifically protecting their company trademark. They'd have to sue *anyone* who was using such an obvious knockoff of their logo; in this case it happens to be a drag queen.

you'll have to forgive me for not weeping for a billion dollar company's trademark being violated

Go nuts. The point is that this isn't a company trying to dogpile on a drag queen, it's a company following a standard legal practice to protect its trademark. Disney does it all the time.

... yes, and I also hate Disney? I don't understand what you think you're selling me on here

If you get a soda out of a vending machine and it has a Coca-Cola label but it's actually a knockoff made with ditchwater, that's obviously okay because Coca-Cola is a huge corporation and it's thus fine for someone to violate their trademark.

You can hate Patagonia all you want, but the lawsuit is about anodyne trademark law, not specifically that a drag queen is involved.

and what part of Miss Gonia's schtick is doing the harm equivalent of tricking someone into drinking ditchwater exactly?

...the trademark part.

right, okay, I forgot that she's singlehandedly putting Patagonia out of business by using a silly joke name

netherator

if Patagonia loses their trademark, which they would if they didn't sue and win (again for one dollar), there would be no assurance against people putting a Patagonia label on amy dogshit

well I hope Amy Dogshit enjoys wearing the label I think she'll look very nice

jessbadger

Absolutely insane to see this shit playing out like this. It is not bootlicking to say laws are specifically for a purpose and they protect not only large companies but small companies and small creators and the general public from harm and confusion. Patagonia was literally turned into a special trust and non-profit to fund environmental protection and climate change work.

Meanwhile Pattie Gonia has been called out and criticized about their misappropriation of indigenous peoples work and not giving credit to those in those spaces when she’s used their work as part of her “brand” because let’s be real. In both of Patagonia and Pattie Gonia’s situations this is brand. If we’re going to play purity politics then be genuine about it and hold everyone to their word, because Pattie Gonia is making money on their brand and that’s partly why their releasing this statement and being so public. It’s a PR push.

This is like the opposite of the McDonald’s coffee case playing out and it’s going to be studied in law school as an absolute insane PR thing that had nothing to do with the real facts of the case, the law, or reality of the situation.

angrylittlesliceofpizza

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yeah, if the suing is *for trademark only* (which. yeah. pattie gonia is definitely using the same imagery.) and ONE DOLLAR, there's definitely some bad faith going on on her part.

i'm ready to bet their legal team tried to communicate with her on that, explaining it was a legal requirement to protect the customer's trust in their brand (which someone pointed out: if anyone could put brand logo on anything, it would go badly. look into what happened with the "Laguiole" brand for example :] idk the specifics of the process, but i know the original creators had to give it up it and i see the results: shitty stuff :] )

… so, yeah.

but to people using *disney* of all companies to explain the brand protection thing: FUCK NO THAT'S NOT THE SAME THING. disney is HUGE. they don't have time to be nice and tell small creators and independants 'hey we're only doing this to protext the brand', and THEY DON'T WANT TO. a legal letter from disney is intimidation, and that's how they want it to be.

definitely not the same kind of situation. ffs.

They definitely communicated with her, as detailed in the lawsuit. Her current actions heavily depend on people not having read the lawsuit.

redstonedust

i hope you die

well it'd be weird if i didn't. happens to all of us eventually yknow.

redstonedust

my inbox is trying to expedite my place in the cycle of saṃsāra. mixed signals.

First draft of No Children was weird as hell

chronivore

1901 LIFE magazine illustration by F.W. Read

Me on my way to steal ur girl

transmortifried

not enough fantasy settings talk about street food like c'mon there was street food in ancient times across basically every culture lemme see what weird snacks you can buy off a guy in an alleyway

#guardians of the dafeng #Chu Caiwei #Street food

Conclusion: more people should watch Guardians of the Dafeng, a show where people eat street food constantly

postoctobrist

Would it change your opinion of Canon to know that they do hilariously blatant product placement in queer Thai dramas? As in two twinks flirting while using a Canon printer and talking about how good it is level blatant?

yes

#me and thee #Canon printer #Youtube

Okay, so the best example of this is from the cute, silly, hugely popular show Me And Thee (pronounced "tea") which is a romance between a hugely rich mob boss and Just Some Guy who works for his company. It's adorable, everyone in it is gorgeous and queer, has lots of Thai third gender actors, and at one point the mob boss (Thee) prints out the lyrics to the song he's going to use to propose to his boyfriend (Peach), realises the lyrics are wrong, but is able to reprint them because his Canon printer is so reliable.

https://youtu.be/zXT2_ktwxkA?t=769&si=ElDfuHT2APTlVjNB

They also did a promotional peach tea

postoctobrist

yes

goobergutz

very big fan of when shows put wigs on actors and say ‘yeah. That’s him when he was younger fuck you’. No anti aging ai, no teen actor hired. Just. The same guy with a fuckass wig

gar-wafflez

#twin peaks #cotton balls #shovel yourself out of the shit #nadine #big ed's gas farm

oh god, Nadine, what are you going to tell Big Ed?

americaisdead

santa rosa, n. mex. july 2025

#You only get one #But it rules

Don't get the onion rings

kakamccartneykirkstan

I find it funny that the author of Star Trek invented a Vulcan word to describe Jim and Spock's relationship. A word that means "friend, brother, and lover." Then he spends an entire page justifying the "lover" part, saying it was just a metaphor. An entire page when he could have avoided any misunderstanding if he had simply stated that the word meant "friend, brother." Nobody would have speculated or complained because, after all, he CREATED the word.

My "Kirk and Spock are lovers but not like that" book page has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the page.

Group of characters where each claims to be the last survivor of the same extinct extraterrestrial civilisation on a different technicality, insisting that the others don't count; e.g., one's a robot created by the civilisation in question, one was raised in the culture but isn't the same species, one's a straight up ghost, etc.

I mean this is just Reign of the Supermen

expressions-of-nature

Fanal Forest, Portugal by Gregoire Pansu

#They made me promise not to tell Treebeard #They DEFINITELY ghosted his ass

Found the Entwives.

teaboot

Hella bored what is your hottest take?

Media where it is made explicitly clear that the hero cannot and should not kill the villain, but then kills the villain off anyways for reasons beyond the hero’s control in order to facilitate a happy ending, directly imply that death is a natural and deserved consequence of evil actions AND an acceptable resolution towards peace, which completely undermines the hero’s arguments otherwise.

Having the hero say “murder is wrong so I will not kill you” while the bad guy goes “your compassion is meaningless, I’ve learned nothing” only for a building to fall on the bad guy and kill him is cop-out fantasy fulfillment for those of us who in theory condone capital punishment but cannot reconcile it with our own self-image of the compassionate pacifist, and broadly represents our frustration that there are, in fact, conflicts that cannot be resolved by “good” people

TL/DR: “Hero too good the commit murder VS irredeemable bad guy who cannot be stopped until he is murdered” situations where the bad guy is taken out by a random deus ex machina are fucking boring UNLESS☝️as a poetic consequence of something either character themselves inadvertently put into motion

#feast of the ass #that's today

There are huge problems with some aspects of Moffat era Doctor Who but one of my favourite parts was that the Doctor was faced with an unrepentant and irredeemable Master, and... redeemed her. It took time and patient work, but she became genuinely better.

(they fucked it up later of course, but for one shining moment...)

Ides of march? That's old and tired.

Happy Feast of the Ass everyone

postoctobrist

I ask this sincerely: how would you write a romance in an undercover cop story?

I think it only works if the undercover cop breaks cover or is otherwise exposed first

Fucks their handler. Simple.

I heard folks taking like "you've gotta check out this 'slurmcore' stuff, the videos are so surreal, there's definitely something wrong with the Gen Z kids", and then I looked it up and it's literally identical to the shitty animutations I was watching on Flash portals in 2001.

This could have been on the front page of Albino Blacksheep twenty years ago. It was posted three weeks ago.

The only reason this isn't giving me vivid flashbacks to when I was fifteen is because half of the characters this video is memeing on didn't exist yet in 1998.

zexreborn

Is aping millennials part of the humor? Hardware store and Slurm are very millennials things.

I think most slurmcore artists are obviously very aware of turn-of-the-millennium Flash video shit – there are too many direct references for them not to be! – but I wouldn't say they're including those callbacks as a joke, precisely. I'm more remarking on the fact that it's baffling to me that folks my age are characterising this stuff so incomprehensibly bizarre when it's so clearly in direct conversation with the online meme culture of our own youth.