| | | Whether you are in Atlanta, California, or elsewhere, you can do something to stop hate against Asian Americans. | | If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser. | | | | |  | | |  | | | | Here's How You Can Take a Stand for the Asian American Community Right Now | | | | Over the past year, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) reported nearly 3,800 cases of hate-related behavior from the time the pandemic began to this past February. The majority of those incidents included verbal abuse, but 11 percent of them also involved physical violence. Then, on the evening of March 16, a 21 year old white man went into three different spas in the greater Atlanta area and killed eight people—six of whom were Asian-American women. Though police are declining to report on a motive, it's clear that the Asian American community is hurting right now and was hurting before March 16. America has—in the past year and beyond—a major issue with hate crimes against AAPI people. Trump did not invent anti-Asian racism, but the former president's use of "the China virus" and the "Kung Flu" over the past year, have led to a rise of anti-Asian hate crimes that have ranged from verbal abuse to being spat on and physically attacked, all the way to murder. US Rep Judy Chu posted on Twitter, "As we wait for more details to emerge, I ask everyone to remember that hurtful words and rhetoric have real life consequences. Please stand up, condemn this violence, and help us #StopAsianHate." Though no protests or demonstrations have yet been publicized, there are several ways you can educate yourself, speak up, and donate to help curb the violence against the AAPI community. Read More | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | He Could Kill 8 People in 3 Places in 1 Night Because He Had the Right Tool | | | | The most recent unfortunate exercise of Second Amendment freedoms, this one at several locations around Atlanta, is a true horror. The alleged perpetrator went shopping around for targets, and for reasons that remain vague and uncertain. But the killing of so many Asian women in the current context of anti-Asian violence sweeping the country can't be ignored. Whatever the alleged killer's motivation was, there is no ambiguity in how he was able to carry it out: this country's insane fetish for its firearms continues to run unabated. There is some movement in the Congress again on passing sensible gun-control legislation, which means we're all in for another absurd debate over the Founders' weakness for dependent clauses. We will learn more about the crime and the criminal as the days go on, but this simple fact will never change: he was able to kill eight people in three places in one night because he was able to obtain the correct tool for the job. One more day of blood sacrifice to a perverse idea of freedom. Here's Charles P. Pierce on the terror out of Atlanta. Read More | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | I Fell In Love With Nice Laundry's Lounge Shorts at First Try-On. Now I Can't Wear Any Others. | | | | Let's get nostalgic about mesh shorts, man. The kind you got issued for high school basketball practice. The kind you wore during summers off for days in a row, just threw them on and ran to meet your neighborhood buddies at the park. The kind you slept in, and then went to class in, and then maybe slept in again during college. The kind you've been wearing around your temperature-controlled apartment for the better part of a year, because fuck it, it's always summer when the outside doesn't even exist. Those are the shorts, man. It's amazing what an elastic waistband and a drawstring can do for your mood. What if those shorts grew up like you have? What if they were so well made, so functionally satisfying, that you never want to take them off? We're here to tell you those shorts exist. We know, because Nice Laundry made them, and Deputy Editor Ben Boskovich has them, and he is eternally grateful they're here. Read More | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | You Can Scoop Up an Iconic Fleece Jacket (Plus 11 More Things) in The North Face's Massive Sale | | | | Ah, the great outdoors. For some of us, it exerts a pull so strong we simply can't ignore it, drawn like moths to a flame to the promise of crisp air and open skies. For other, it's just...outside. Big deal. And yet, despite those wild differences in worldview, both camps can easily agree on one thing: The North Face. The brand that outfits everyone from hardcore mountain climbers who put their gear through hell to hardcore sneakerheads who step carefully around every questionable puddle is having its seasonal sale right now, and there's a lot to please the full gamut of fans. In the market for a hoodie emblazoned with TNF's iconic logo? Yep, there's (more than) one of those. How about a pair of sneakers that actually make good on that whole "from the trails to the streets" promise? Those, too! And if you find yourself yearning for a fleece so good we here at Esquire had to officially endorse it, well, yeah, there's one of those, too. The whole sale section on The North Face's website is worthy of your attention, to be honest, and it's not so wildly overstuffed that you couldn't look through it all on your own if you're so inclined. But you've got shit to do. So start with these 12 can't miss picks and get ready to venture forth into the great wide open—or not. Read More | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | If You Still Don't Believe Dylan Farrow in 'Allen v. Farrow', It's Time to Ask Yourself Why | | | | I deserve to feel ashamed for how I used to think about Woody Allen, writes Esquire's Dom Nero. It was almost ten years ago, but he'd defended him. More than shame, though, the haunting experience of watching Allen v. Farrow makes him understand that the question of whether or not you believe Allen abused Dylan Farrow has nothing to do, really, with Woody Allen. It's not really about Dylan Farrow, either–though she certainly deserves to be validated after all the decades of trauma she's suffered. It's something about the way Allen defends himself on a 60 Minutes interview, saying, "Be logical about this. I'm 57. Isn't it illogical that I'm going to pick this moment in my life to become a child molester?" And he goes on to insist, "if I wanted to be a child molester, I had many opportunities in the past." It's something about us–about men and how we are raised to view women. It's that unspoken agreement we have when all the women leave the table, when we're a few drinks in, when we nod our heads around that word we use so much to describe them. Crazy. Read More | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Follow Us | | | | | | | | Unsubscribe Privacy Notice | | | esquire.com
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