Billy Porter on his problem with Harry Styles and ‘that b----’ Anna Wintour

Aug 12, 2023 22:40


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- Pop Base (@PopBase) August 12, 2023

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Harry covered Vogue Nov 2020 wearing a Gucci dress

Billy Porter was not happy with that cover then and is still talking about it now

he head a meeting with Anna Wintour sometimes in 2020
“That b---- said to me at the end, ‘How can we do better?’ And I was so taken off guard ( Read more... )

lgbtq / rights, harry styles, magazine covers and articles, black celebrities

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babarsuhail August 12 2023, 21:06:26 UTC
Why is he still talking about this??

He didn't say what he wanted when he was talking to Anna. Was she supposed to read his mind. And calling her a bitch, really?

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fauxkaren August 12 2023, 21:10:22 UTC
yeah i have a pretty reflexive "ew" reaction whenever I see a man call a woman a bitch (lol even if she is one). For some reason I am ok with women using that word against other women, but idk. A man using it is a no from me.

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crystalzelda August 12 2023, 21:18:02 UTC
It’s not men’s to use in any context. Just like other slurs/insults in recent times, if some members of the community want to reclaim it, that’s for them to decide but that doesn’t mean it’s a free for all or no longer a misogynistic insult.

How many women have been attacked, assaulted, killed, and the last word they ever heard was “bitch”? Nah. Keep it out your fucking mouths.

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fauxkaren August 12 2023, 21:25:33 UTC
How many women have been attacked, assaulted, killed, and the last word they ever heard was “bitch”?

That's a really succinct way to verbalize what I felt but had trouble articulating. It's a word that has such a long history of men's hatred for and violence towards women behind it that, no matter the man's sexuality, I have an instinctive recoil when I hear men use it.

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where_i_begin August 13 2023, 15:02:28 UTC
Members of the bitch community?

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anderbobo August 12 2023, 21:30:29 UTC
honestly, as a man, I love using the term 'asshole" as i find it stings pretty evenly

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afeelingunacted August 12 2023, 21:47:42 UTC
I'm a woman and I switched to this too!

I can insult everyone in a gender neutral way!

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dull_and_wicked August 12 2023, 23:18:44 UTC
i'm a woman and ~jackass is also a go-to for me lol it's universal. apologies to donkeys tho lmfao

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ginainabottle August 13 2023, 00:33:23 UTC
I love saying asshole, I find it far more encompassing since I do appreciate being what society perceives as a "bitch" a lot of times.

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inkstainedlips August 12 2023, 22:13:37 UTC
For me the problem with women calling other women bitch is if you do it in anger you're just imitating the bad behavior of men and that's not reclaiming it or whatever. I wish the word would just go away.

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amara_anon August 13 2023, 13:05:54 UTC
I knew J.K. Rowling was trash when she had Mrs. Weasley call Bellatrix a bitch in the last book. You are the most famous author in the world, you know everyone is going to read this book, and you just gave everyone in the world permission to use the word "bitch." WTF.

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hateistoodark August 12 2023, 22:55:18 UTC
Yeah I’m not really cool with men calling women bitches. Even if I don’t mind women calling each other/men bitches. It doesn’t matter if they aren’t straight it just rubs me the wrong way.

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ginainabottle August 13 2023, 00:36:11 UTC
I find it curious that some of these comments are acting like he's full on trashing NB people when his comment is pretty open to interpretation but seem to have no issue with a misogynistic slur. Hm.

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shahrazade_bard August 13 2023, 03:22:26 UTC
Mte.

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klauses August 13 2023, 17:55:32 UTC
Yyyyyup, no surprise around these parts though.

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pciam August 13 2023, 19:07:08 UTC
Agreed. I am also a gay male-I’m not going to pretend I never used that word to describe a woman, but it is a word I had to unlearn using when describing women years back once I fully understood the misogyny rooted in the word. But I unlearned it years ago, and I feel like most people, especially those who identify as being progressive, should now know better by now.

I now refer to the word asshole when describing men or women when it fits lol.

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