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    “Calvin Klein Wants To Go Broke”: Company Faces Massive Backlash After Woke Ad

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    Calvin Klein has faced backlash on social media after a woke advertisement resurfaced from its Pride 2022 campaign.  The promotion featured Bappie Kortram from the Netherlands, who claims to be a woman.  Kotram can be seen with a beard and chest hair while wearing a Calvin Klein bra and underwear.  According to Kortram’s advertisement agency Bappie is “a trans man who has not had top surgery yet.”

    Danish physician Dr. Anastasia Maria Luopis tweeted a picture of the promotion with the caption, “Calvin Klein wants to go broke.”

    Kortram said in a social media post, “There aren’t enough words in any language to describe how much I love Jamilla and how much this shoot means for us both. The fact that we were selected for the pride collection of Calvin Klein makes us proud on many intersecting levels. We were both about to enter new chapters in our life. Jamilla and her gastric sleeve and my upcoming top surgery. These are beautiful memories ( and mammories! lol ). To showcase unapologetic fat love, fat pride, fat cis bodies, fat trans bodies, fat joy.”

    One Twitter user commented beneath Loupis’s post, “What do they think they are achieving by replacing unrealistic beauty standards with unrealistic ugly standards Just more evidence that we don’t live in a ‘free market’ as our rulers say, but in an ideological oligarchy.”  Another user said, “This is the equivalent of abstract art for the fashion world. They have giving up on the beautiful and instead now present to you what you could find at any trailer park.”

    Someone else questioned how these companies continue to engage in these woke advertising campaigns, stating, “This has to be some kind of fed operation. There is no way these companies can see what happened to Bud Light and STILL want to pander to what is essentially .0001 percent of the population. They must be getting monetary support from somewhere to offset the losses from this.”
    Someone else added, “The question is: Who needs Calvin Klein now?! Today I offer you my best service. Tomorrow I decide to serve you badly. Would you continue to come to me for good service? Calvin Klein used to be in the design and beauty business. Still in that business?”
    Another user slammed the ad, “How is this ‘progressive’? Calvin Klein has had women and people of color before. Being overweight (which is largely a lifestyle choice and extremely unhealthy) is not ‘oppression’. You get no bonus points for simply existing and existing badly; setting a bad example for all.”
    Calvin Klein also ran a woke Mother’s Day ad campaign in 2022 that featured a pregnant woman who claimed to be a man.  It featured a quote which read, “Today, in support of women and mothers all over the world, we’re spotlighting the realities of new families.”
    After ensuing backlash the company responded with a statement on the promotion.  “We embrace this platform as an inclusive and respectful environment for individualism and self-expression. At Calvin Klein, we tolerate everything except intolerance— any intolerant commentary will be removed, and any accounts issuing hateful statements may be blocked,” the company said.

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