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

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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

Comments

[slaughtermatic]

i dont understand how someone who looks like anna wintour became a fashion icon lol

[benihime99]

Népotisme
I'm not even kidding

[slaughtermatic]

oh was dad someone?

[afeelingunacted]

Her dad was an influential editor who basically decided when she was a teen she should be a fashion journalist.

From then on she failed her way up, had some influential boyfriends, had some innovative ideas back in the late '80s/'90s and then just stayed perched on her position for decades.

[fart]

well someone’s not getting invited to the met gala next year lol

[genbu_no_miko24]

Lol he's def bitter about it but he's right about using someone like Harry as this gender-breaking representation.

Interesting he's brings up the non-binary thing cause Harry isn't 👀

Anna is so freaking messy lol!!

[babarsuhail]

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?

[fauxkaren]

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.

[crystalzelda]

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.

[fauxkaren]

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.

[beegotry]

Styles is a convenient tool to use for performative inclusivity, which is his selling point.

[k4l_el]

Exactly. Only straight men have somehow benefited from the challenging of gender roles while everyone gets their rights stripped away.

[theylezharold]

Have we talked on here about how straight men wear pearls now?

And get no shit for it? Meanwhile everyone else is losing their rights...