Shereen Wu says leading designer uploaded altered picture, amid fears AI could ‘turn back the clock’ on progress in the industry
Shereen Wu says leading designer uploaded altered picture, amid fears AI could ‘turn back the clock’ on progress in the industry
So it’s her fault that she’s suffering from racial prejudices in the fashion industry? Because she dared to join and ‘we all know what they’re like’?
Interesting logic. Let’s expand on that.
Are all women at fault for any misogyny they encounter in the tech industry? That industry’s problem with women is VERY well documented, so they must know what they’re getting into, right?
Or how about BMEs working in healthcare. The racial discrimination issues there are also well documented, so we can let those slide right, because they should have known?
People like you are the reason these things don’t improve. Your acceptance of this status quo sickens me.
No. These are not the same.
Healthcare. Tech. Shit, restaurant work. Pick a fucking profession that is even remotely necessary for the human race to progress. Those we should change. Those are worth our time and energy to fix. Those have heroic figures fighting battles for the betterment of the ones that follow so that the next generation can have a better chance at a future. The fucking fashion industry is not that. It is not worth the time to save. It is worthless even on it’s best days. Throwing any effort into it is a waste of time. There is no benefit to humanity derived from walking down the runway in fuckwad cosplay. We aren’t developing new ways to fight cancer with Frenchname McDickface’s fall line-up. Burn it all to the ground. This girl wasted her life in this industry, and she is now just another cog in the machine. I feel no sympathy for her. She made her bed, now she has to lie in it. She is not fighting some epic battle against the forces of evil to make the world better. She’s a model. She’s walking in an oval down a strip of plywood for the amusement of some art school dropout and a bunch of 1%ers. Do not put her on some pedestal with people who are actually trying to make a change.
So fashion gets a special racism pass because other industries are more essential?
You also forget that fashion has a big influence on wider culture. If racism is accepted there, it will seep into wider culture from that front.
Or is she at fault because she trained to work in the fashion industry and not another industry that you would prefer?
You’re delusional, dude. Thinking people deserve racism because they work in a field you don’t like. Does that make you more elitist or racist? I can’t tell. Definitely a mixture though.
Fucking no, man. Jesus Christ. Everyone in this thread has some hard on for preserving the fashion industry. It doesn’t get a pass. It should be abolished. Destroyed. Removed from the world. Stop trying to fix it and start trying to destroy it.
And I’ll repeat myself yet again. Get rid of it. It has influence because we allow it to exist.
Yes. She is at fault. She made a choice. She wasn’t born a fashion model. This isn’t some LGBTQ+/BIPOC issue despite what the article would have you believe. It is OK to say that she has some blame in her situation. And she’s only 21! She still has time to get things right. She can still find another way to provide for herself. Shit. If anything, people like you saying that she can’t do anything but model because that’s all she’s done are the misogynists. I bet she’d be just fine in another field.
People deserve the consequences of their choices. It wasn’t like she got into the industry and then it suddenly turned racist, sexist, and shitty over night. If you’d read the article, you’d see that there is a history of this, and it’s a shitty article with a limited scope. Imagine if you’d have done any real research into it before talking all this shit. Maybe you’d see that I’ve been right all along. An asshole, sure. But a right one.
Ahhh okay. So just destroy an entire industry just because you don’t like it. Gotcha. That sounds totally reasonable.
So let’s put that mix at mostly elitist, but also racist because you somehow believe this woman’s issues with racial discrimination can be brushed aside simply because of the industry she works in.
Hey, while we’re at it let’s destroy the music industry too. It’s not strictly needed for human advancement. The movie industry can go too. Heck, all acting roles must go!
In all seriousness, you’re crazy if you think the entire destruction of industries is the way to solve this. You are not right, you are insane. The fashion industry has existed for literal millennia. So long as people want to express themselves with clothing, it will always be a thing. There is no reason it has to go hand in hand with racism, and it can be reformed.