Opinion | Elizabeth Holmes, A.O.C., and the Art of Owning It – The New York Times

Don a beautiful dress, let helpers carry the train, have fun and ignore the inevitable charges of hypocrisy. She should have adopted the philosophy of another frequent guest of that gala, Kate Moss: never complain, never explain.

Instead, A.O.C. tried to have it both ways. The socialist Jackie O. Vogued in a virtue-signaling garment with an anodyne slogan, expressing a view that a majority of Americans already hold.

Rather than Owning It, she put out a bloviating statement on Instagram, chalking up all criticism to sexism and racism.

Honestly our culture is deeply disdainful and unsupportive of women, especially women of color and working class women (And LGBTQ/immigrant/etc), she wrote. Really, the working-class card, at the Met gala? She added: The more intersections one has, the deeper the disdain. I am so used to doing the same exact thing that men do including popular male progressive elected officials and getting a completely different response.

I found this statement to be at the intersection of disingenuous and hilarious, coming from the woman who is a phenomenon and a trailblazer in wielding image and social media to her advantage.

Her response was cynical. And it wasn t the first time that she had failed to consider that people can disagree with her without disagreeing with her identity.

via www.nytimes.com

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