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Katie | 26 | she/who knows this blog is a gay mess

[throo]

Wh-what do you mean it’s from a birthday cake

[throo]

We could have been eating him

[okmurph]

Now that’s IMPROV BABY

[mooslittlebeans]

“Thats my husband!!”

[reineyday]

oh, the coterie has the choice of investing with beholdr to remain easily powerful, but instead they want to put an earnest effort into making purpee a better place for the people who live in it? close enough, welcome back stardew valley community centre route.

[thee-rat-king]

Sweetie Pie’s feels borderline like a Stefon bit

[jadeinretrogrde]

I turn to my imaginary audience like this every time I hear about someone born in the 2000s

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

It's a lot healthier to go for a daily walk than to sign up for a gym membership you won't be using because you hate that kind of exercise. It's a lot healthier to eat a frozen meal than to skip a meal because you were too tired to cook something healthy. It's a lot healthier to take a quick shower than to procrastinate an elaborate routine for days. Don't aim so high that you won't be hitting anything!

[creamypancakebatter]

this is actually really helpful and affirming thanks

[breelandwalker]

[flipocrite]

there is no such thing as the perfect steppy

only the next steppy

[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!

[shadow-manor]

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.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

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

[shadow-manor]

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.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

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

[shadow-manor]

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.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

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

[shadow-manor]

...the trademark part.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

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

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

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.

[secretbraintwin]

Can someone explain to me why companies *have* to sue any small fry doing a parody to protect their trademark instead of just choosing to sue when they feel there is an actual risk to their brand?

[fresh-bag-of-ham]

Patagonia is not suing because of parody -- they seem to have had friendly communication for years with Pattie and supported her work.

Patagonia is suing because Pattie has filed for her own trademark of "Pattie Gonia" to sell clothing.

Patagonia does not own the name Patagonia forever and ever amen, but they specifically maintain the exclusive right to sell clothing labeled "Patagonia" so long as they continuously ask the courts to prevent anyone else who asks from using the name "Patagonia" or names similar enough to it to be confusing... TO SELL CLOTHING.

Pattie framing this as "a corporation trying to erase an activist" when Patagonia the company has done more to support the environment than Pattie by orders of magnitude and seemed honestly committed to supporting her work until she, to be clear, filed a conflicting trademark application so that she could make brand deals with North Face and HydroFlask to sell "Pattie Gonia"-branded merch via Patagonia's main direct competitors actually pisses me off. This lawsuit was filed in January but only on the eve of Pride month are we "breaking our silence" to goad fans into pointlessly harassing an outdoor gear company's socials to drop a lawsuit that they clearly wouldn't have filed if they'd had any other option (no really, go read it)? Uh huh. I'm sure. Either Pattie Gonia's team doesn't understand trademark law or this was a cynical self-promotional exercise from the beginning.

You can be a drag queen named after a clothing brand, you can playfully parody a clothing brand, but you can't be shocked when that clothing brand doesn't let you also become a clothing brand...

[secretbraintwin]

Still genuinely asking, here:

How is this different from Weird Al making money selling music that is a parody of other music? This seems different than the sweatshops pushing out Guci purses trying to FOOL people that it’s Gucci. Isn’t a parody different than a rip off?

[fresh-bag-of-ham]

Because you're comparing fair use of copyright (allowed for parody, criticism, etc etc) vs. trademark.

Copyright = who has the "right" to make "copies" to sell, for books/music/movies/creative works.

Trademark = who can "trade" under that "mark", i.e. branding, including name and other unique characteristics of the product that you register.

Imagine if Weird Al tried to get a level of legal protection for his parodies that would allow him to sue the original artists for sounding too much like him. That is what Pattie Gonia has asked for by applying for the trademark. If Patagonia doesn't sue and Pattie Gonia gets her trademark, Pattie could potentially sue Patagonia for infringement, which is why they obviously won't let this happen. The two names are too close, they can't both be protected by trademark in the same market space.*

*probably. the courts decide this ultimately, and i'm not a lawyer

[miidniite]

live footage of me and my s/o when im on my period:

[haleyusesherwords]

[epicscizor]

[leftbeeftheory]

Sometimes a dual income male partnership is four men and two women

[wizard-loving-wizard]

every purpee citizen that meets darkness man:

[dorothylarouge]

[funfey]

You are not staying in the tags

[ask-cloverfield]

[fagcrisis]

i hate the word spicy can we bring back calling things erotic

[maryoliveoil]

rolling up to Wendy's to get an erotic chicken sandwich

[haleyusesherwords]

[nochoirsinging]

One of my favorite things about City Council of Darkness is that this town of 18k has multiple locations of the same fast food place. In my experience, a city that small feel lucky if they get one

[themaidenofwords]

Allegations? No, baby, they're married

[themaidenofwords]

#they got married and called it a merger

prev these tags make me want to have a merger with you

[milanesa42]

“The employees need a larger salary” “hmmmm large celery”