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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBoycott Dolce and Gabbana: Gays Can Be Hypocritical, Prejudiced Dumbasses, Too
Tim TeemanThe fashion designers condemn synthetic children born of IVF, when Stefano Gabbana himself once wanted to have children by it himself. How does he explain that, and will the fashion world fall in line behind Elton Johns boycott?
The call to boycott fashion label Dolce & Gabbana, launched by the LGBT News Italia website and supported by a rightly furious and hurt Elton John, was as inevitable as the subsequent hashtag #BoycottDolceGabbana.
Designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, a one-time couple, had opined that in-vitro fertilization led to synthetic children and that gay people could not be parents; this despite a 2006 interview, quoted in the Daily Mail, in which Gabbana said he wanted to have a child via artificial insemination himself.
The question is not so much why they said what they did, and the subsequent boycott, but what changed Stefano Gabbanas mind so radically. In 2006, he wanted to have children using exactly the same method he now denigrates as a choice of other gay parents.
I want my own child, a biological child, the fruit of my sperm, conceived through artificial insemination because it wouldnt make sense for me to make love to a woman I dont love, he said then. On Sunday, calls to Dolce and Gabbana went unanswered. Is it their Catholic upbringings? How did these two gay men become so prejudiced against LGBT parents?
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/15/boycott-dolce-and-gabbana-gays-can-be-hypocritical-prejudiced-dumbasses-too.html
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Boycott Dolce and Gabbana: Gays Can Be Hypocritical, Prejudiced Dumbasses, Too (Original Post)
DonViejo
Mar 2015
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jberryhill
(62,444 posts)1. Unless Rush Limbaugh Needs A Wedding Singer... /nt
3catwoman3
(24,109 posts)2. Well, it will be a considerable sacrifice, but...
...I suppose I can get my designer duds from another house -
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)3. hypocritical?
Is he saying gays are insufficiently critical? Or did he mean hypercritical? Sorry, but I can't make sense of the title.
hyp·o·crit·i·cal
/ˌhipəˈkridək(ə l/
adjective: hypocritical
behaving in a way that suggests one has higher standards or more noble beliefs than is the case.
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=hypocritical
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)8. ah..interesting...
in the medical field, "hypo" means "low" and its use is very straightforward, as in hypoglycemia, hypocalcemia, hypokalemia, etc. It's also a direct antonym of "hyper."
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,227 posts)4. People in the fashion world being shallow assholes?
You're kidding me!
Dr. Strange
(25,929 posts)6. Are "synthetic" children considered GMO?
Do they have to labeled as such?
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,227 posts)7. Do you have to vaccinate them?
And if so, will they end up autistic?