The docuseries touched on how Wexner and chief marketing officer Ed Razek held a patriarchal hierarchy over the company. Archival footage shows Razek and Wexner advocating for women and hiring them as executives in high-level positions at Victoria's Secret, but some of those women interviewed said there was always an underlying level of discrimination.
In marketing campaigns between female executives, they would often try to make changes for what real women would want for the Victoria's Secret brand, but male executives like Razek and Wexner would have the final say. Former employee Sarah Zofko argued that by 2007, the brand became so focussed on the sexuality of the models and how men should view "perfect women" that much of their marketing and advertising bordered on soft-core pornography. This narrow vision and extremely high standard of beauty (potentially making women feel more insecure than empowered about their bodies) was also one of the factors many former employees said contributed to the downfall of Victoria's Secret's "sexy" era.
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