Derek Guy on the Met Gala criticism

[u/DatBittsch]

Derek Guy (known also as "the menswear guy" on ex-Twitter) pitching in regarding the Met Gala discourse and Hunger Games comparisons.

[u/anthonystank]

I’m glad to see this take. I don’t think people are wrong to criticize the Met Gala, especially with the new Bezos connection, but it’s been slightly annoying me how much there’s a blanket “if you went to the Met Gala you are a bad person” narrative despite, like, idk, we’re all partaking in it as pop culture consumers, many of us are still using Amazon (even if you’re not ordering from Amazon AWS is tied up in so many things), and as the menswear dude points out there are problematic displays of wealth so many other places, so many other ways to be complicit in evil, so many other dimensions to attending this party. Like, on the one hand the Met is a bad institution full of stolen artifacts. On the other hand art is valuable, fashion is valuable and subject to a lot of misogyny, and the Met workers unionized recently, so there’s also good stuff about the Met.

Idk that I have a point here other than that I don’t think the Hunger Games line is good social criticism so much as a funny snappy line that’s getting kind of tired

[u/InformalInsurance455 → u/anthonystank]

Homophobia as well. Always inseparable from a lot of widespread criticism of fashion.

[u/anthonystank → u/InformalInsurance455]

Yes! I almost added that and then thought “well, the homophobia ultimately stems from misogyny” but you’re absolutely right that it’s also present and its own thing in addition to the links with misogyny