A CEO was fired after he was caught in a viral video ridiculing a teenage male for wearing a dress to his senior prom.
“Slander terms thrown toward me of like ‘you look bad,’ ‘you’ve got hair on your chest, you shouldn’t be wearing a dress,’ ‘you’re not a man,’ blah, blah, blah,” said Dalton Stevens, the teenager who wore the dress, of his encounter with the CEO. “The fact that he thought he had the audacity to come tell me what I was supposed to wear and what I was supposed to do because of his standards.”
The CEO, later identified as Sam Johnson of telemedicine company VisuWell, can be seen in the video approaching teenagers as they took pictures at a local hotel and ridiculing Stevens for his dress.
“We unequivocally condemn the behavior exhibited by Sam Johnson in a recent video widely circulated on social media,” the company said in a statement. “After investigating the matter and speaking to individuals involved, the VisuWell Board of Directors has chosen to terminate Mr. Johnson from his position as CEO, effective immediately.”
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Stevens said he wore the dress because he wanted to make a statement and believes clothes should be “genderless.”
“I very much view clothes as genderless,” Stevens said.
“I think clothing should just be taken as a piece of cloth and nothing more,” Stevens continued. “Everybody should just wear what they want and shouldn’t be ashamed to wear anything because of societal standards.”
“He did his big ‘prom-posal’ and asked me to prom,” said Jacob Geittman, Stevens’s boyfriend. “And he decided he was going to wear a dress, and I’m like, ‘OK! You’re going to look good in it!’”
Stevens said he felt confident in the dress despite the ridicule he heard from Johnson.
“I was very confident,” Stevens said. “I knew that I felt beautiful, and I felt great.”
Geittman said he thinks that Johnson should have kept his thoughts to himself.
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“You can have your thoughts and opinions, [but] keep them to yourself,” said Geittman. “You don’t need to go up to a teenager, in public, on their prom night, and publicly shame and harass them for what they decided to wear.”
