I was talking about that girl who was the face of TALA who was caught out on Tattle when I mentioned “not envy[ing] the girl who works for Grace” - not sure if I’ve picked up the right end of the stick here, but basically if I was in any way affiliated with Grace or her company I wouldn’t want to be picked up for being on here. Sorry for the confusion - disregard if wrong lol.
it sucks, but it’s essentially a respectability politics game with grezgate. She has tied her identity and business so much to being a boss babe that criticisms of her are instantly interpreted as attacks on what she supposedly represents, especially as she positions herself as the only person doing what she’s doing (ostensibly “disrupting the industry” with mad ethix). we have to be really careful with this if we want anything to change.
think how badly we all perceive it when she likes tweets calling critics ugly or loserish. her fans think the same of us when we support this kind of thing by saying it, sharing it, or liking it (I saw someone on twitter call her vile for the antiSemitism, but their profile was overwhelmingly islamophobic so I didn’t like/RT it cos I didn’t want to amplify their voice). we’re not going to convince a meaningful portion of people or grace herself by being mean or accepting support from bigots.
That being said, she once ripped into a fan with her rich influencer friends for being ugly when said fan criticised her, so. If I have a moment of weakness and call someone a crusty asshole of an oompa loompa after literally months of patiently explaining why what they’re doing is wrong and exploitative, it will be her if it’s not Donald trump lol. But I still won’t accept support on this from a random misogynist that thinks she’s a “thot” or whatever.
I’m so nervous about Amy Victoria. I like her but I don’t want Grace to publicly take a shot at her which I think is likely given how much attention Amy is getting for her shade at grace (it doesn’t take much to set grace off lmao) (edit: or maybe I do if Amy will be able to hold her own/not be harassed??? hmm)