That dress is doing it already. Marchesa has the most hideous clothes, and that dress is one of the top most hideous. Not to mention, their clothes are garbage quality.

Yeah, that’s a fallacy.

He’s responsible for his actions. She profited off the exploitation and assault of others.

So because everybody else does it, I should be okay with this woman being complicit in the coercion/intimidation of other women in the name of “opportunities to make herself successful”? Like I said, I would be very curious if she can make it on her own without her husband threatening people into wearing her products.

Ummm...just because something “happens everywhere” doesn’t mean that people shouldn’t be called out when they get caught doing it. I mean, shit, sexual harassment “happens everywhere,” should we just let it go? That the lazies excuse there is for allowing bad behavior.

I can’t believe I have to post this on yet another thread: It has been established by the actresses themselves that Harvey Weinstein threatened many careers of actresses in his films if they did not wear his wife’s brand on the red carpet. I can send the links to the interviews if you would like. There is no way to…

Can the discussion not be about Weinstein and turn to the fact that the dress doesn’t fit with the theme of the Met Ball? It is drab, frumpy, and does resemble a used O.B. tampon.

Hm. I don’t know. This dress kind of reminds me of a tampon.

Yeah. I absolutely do not blame Georgina Chapman for the fact that Weinstein is a rapist and an overall horrible human being. I don’t blame her for the things he did to his victims and I don’t blame her for his temper or intimidation tactics EXCEPT when he bullied women into wearing her clothes to get the brand off…

This right here is why I found her whiney quote to Vogue such bullshit.

I kinda don’t believe that Georgina Chapman didn’t about some of his bad behavior. Maybe not the sexual assault stuff but would be bizarre if she didn’t know about his temper and intimidation tactics as his business MO. Like the stuff about bullying women to wear her clothing.

Amazing list, but there’s a Jonathan Franzen-sized hole in it.

No jonathan franzen?? Maybe he doesn’t qualify as “great”.

DFW intensely loved dogs, and his harassing, stalking and threatening women with violence made him a really fascinating guy and great writer. Got it.

It isn’t out of left field but you know that the Kardashian PR machine definitely had that one cued up for a situation like this.

lol, you say “most people are just trying to get by” then whip out your condescension at the first whiff of hoi polloi. Get bent, clown.

But poorer than what? I highly doubt these kids are going to be put in the lowest performing schools. They’re going to be put in adjacent schools that aren’t quite as good and they’re going to be fucking fine.

I used to live in NYC. I went lived in a West Indian neighborhood, went to a HBCU, and worked in the mostly white DA’s office. NYC is profoundly segregated (one of the reasons I no longer live there). To say that discriminatory policies are mostly about class or money but NOT race presumes that the racial…

Yep. They want to “help” without actually having to change anything or upset their comfort levels in any way. It’s the “overcome, just...over there” mentality.

The behavior of the parents is why I laugh when folks try to tell me a public school education is equal regardless of if you live in the city or the suburbs.