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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I don't "hate" Chrissy Teigen, because I don't have enough investment in people I don't know. However, I do believe it is extremely problematic to put people on pedestals who have caused grave harm to other people with zero consequences. Teigen has showed she is ugly on the outside, and as a mother who is strongly against bullying of any kind, I can't imagine aligning with this woman, or lionizing her when there are clearly many other women in the world who have done a lot of good - I don't understand the focus on someone who has negative value and has done nothing for society, in fact the opposite- she willingly and knowingly relentlessly harassed teenagers. [/quote]

Pulling this out because it's a good point. I'm probably less invested in Teigen's bullying past, BUT I do think that often valid criticism of celebrities, including Teigen, is written off as "haters gonna hate" or people being jealous. A lot of people develop parasocial obsessions with celebrities, or over-identify with celebrities because of the perceived (and false) closeness of social media and other forms of interaction, and will defend literally anything they do. I've seen it with lots of different celebs.

Sometimes people are making valid criticisms, or at least opinions grounded in unbiased assessments, and it gets dismissed as just people hating on a famous woman. Well guess what, sometimes famous women do things worth criticizing. It's not anti-feminist to do so.[/quote]

Thank you. I also want to add, what Teigen did to Courtney and her other targets was the epitome of anti feminism. Why do we give her a pass? Because she’s wealthy? Because she’s famous? Imagine if your daughter was Courtney, would you be excusing her bad behavior then? The behavior was so lacking in empathy it astounded me. I think we need to hold people to the same standards we would if they hurt a loved one of ours. It didn’t happen to me or wasn’t targeted at me isn’t a reason to look the other way.

Also, not sure why anyone is surprised when they start a thread on Chrissy and it’s controversial.. like if you don’t understand the controversy, I don’t know what to tell you.

Personally, I could care less about her surrogacy or her personal life but I do care about her actions that harm others.[/quote]

Regarding Teigen and the teen she bullied: because the teen was an exploited, effector trafficked by her parents white blonde with no power, and some women would kill for Teigen’s lifestyle and identify with her as a “brave” POC who “took on Trump.” I am progressive AF and am always a little amused at people who find hating the worst President ever to be an unusual personality trait. I would think that’s less special and more just, being sentient. But that’s why, and everyone honest knows it. [/quote]
1. identify someone calling her "brave" for calling out t
2. identify someone else at the time who publicly called out his total bs
3. it doesn't give you automatic credibility when you claim you're progressive af
4. "and everyone knows it" is 'fux not news' trope[/quote]
5. be better[/quote]

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