The Bard once commented that brevity is the soul of wit.
Is it OK to wear clothes made by Harvey Weinstein’s wife?
Or, more accurately, from the virtue-signalling twat who wrote to the Guardian rather than exercise what passes for grey matter between his lugholes:
With the sexual harassment scandal hitting the fashion world now, whose work should we no longer enjoy?
The answer is, of course; we can easily separate the artist from the art, so do whatever you like. In this case, it’s Weinstein’s wife we are talking about. Hadley Freeman expends a whole article which, eventually, tells us that we shouldn’t enjoy her clothes because well, she is married to Weinstein as if that matters a jot. The rest is irrelevant to the original question.
Idiot.
I would have thought that it would be more virtue signally to buy her stuff to provide some moral support. It is hardly her fault that her husband has turned out to be such a villain is it? Maybe she could be blamed for having made a huge mistake in marrying him, but then the person who never made a mistake never made anything.
The boycotting thing rarely works anyway. I seem to recall the Nestle company being exposed as having some highly unethical practices, potential boycotters soon found out that Nestle make just about everything they bought on their big weekly shop. Even if you do manage to stick to your boycotting guns and successfully eliminate every single offending purchase, you are simply outnumbered by all the other people who just don’t give a shit about your right on righteous cause.
I think the issue here is that the question has been answered so many times over, it’s become hackneyed. Yes, of course we can separate the artist from the art and second hand as in this case, definitely. Buy her stuff or not on the merit of the product.
The question I would like to ask said virtue signaller is this; why should Georgina Chapman suffer censure and loss of business now she’s only just (allegedly) found out what a shit soon-to-be ex-husband Harvey Weinstein is?
Don’t see the logic or justice. Oh silly me, there isn’t any.
Re: Left CM SJW Boycotts
In 1980s I would always buy South Africa products (eg tinned fruit) if price was similar to alternatives.
I also frequently wore a Springbock rugby shirt – in public.
Even then, it was obvious SA would become like former Rhodesia if the scum’s campaigning aims’ were achieved.
As an aside, if Lefties bring up slave trade, point out MEA (EMEA – E) were doing this centuries before we arrived and we (whites) merely bought what they were already selling.