A rare male-oriented unemployment charitable event

Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2013-07-05 19:21

Article here. Excerpt:

'Men’s Wearhouse announced today the launch of its sixth annual National Suit Drive with a goal to collect 150,000 gently used professional clothing items through July 31, to give unemployed men a chance to look their best as they re-enter the workforce. Each year, National Suit Drive, the nation’s largest collection of business attire for men, encourages Americans to donate their gently used business wear to help give a fresh start to millions of disadvantaged workers still facing unemployment.

In its first five years, the Men’s Wearhouse National Suit Drive collected more than half a million pieces of business attire, including 120,000 suits, which helped thousands of men confidently re-enter the workforce.'

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This charity event helps men to make more money, so as to better support women and children. So this is not really charity for men per se. So far as I can tell, the reason why men are "supported" here, but not elsewhere, is that via this event they are enabled to be more successful in their roles as the tools of others. There's nothing about this event where men personally benefit. The subtext behind this event is that "all men need to be working, all the time, so they can be supporting women and children."

This event is much like the Craftsman Tools advertisement for Father's Day (link below), where the things people are supposed to give to Dad help him to give more to the family. Note that the gifts are not about men enjoying themselves, doing what they want to do, or following their own callings. The suggested Father's Day gifts (like this charitable event) are all about entrenching men further in wage-slave positions, positions where their whole life is about giving to others, where they don't get to have a life of their own.

http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7ngK/craftsman-fathers-day

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Submitted by redwoodwriter on Fri, 2013-07-05 20:56