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This was my impression reading about Outdoor Voices CEO Tyler Haney. She more or less described herself as not taking problems seriously. How can you expect to solve them?
I think a lot of the problem is just venture funding hopping on the hype train. What's hot? Tech companies? Throw money at a bunch of people who say the right lingo in the right order. Women CEOs are the next wave? This one has an established personal brand!
I'm not saying any of these people are an Elisabeth Holmes-level con (definitely a number of the tech bros come much closer to her than women in fashion), but there once was a time when you had to start the company first, then get the financing.
This reminds me so much of this clip. I don't know if this is a familiar script outside the PNW but it's so painfully spot on whenever you go to anything artsy out here. It is always, always, a white lady. I have never heard a First Nation's person say these words, or ask for someone else to.
So much of this acknowledging we have to do better is just an ego salve for the cognitive dissonance of people who want to be the hero of their own story but don't want to do the damn work.
Gonna pour one out for AR, damn.
I think that it cannot be over-emphasized that a lot of these people are not particularly intelligent or insightful or self-aware. They got lucky, and they ran with it. There is no issue with that. I have never read anything about Medine Cohen r in Man Repeller that suggested to me that she had anything higher than a liberal Cosmo level of insight. She never deserved hero status, and so it should come as no surprise when she failed to live up to unrealistic expectations by others who, frankly, are also not that smart. There are a lot of women who are remarkable and impressive. Most of them just don't happen to work in fashion or fashion media.
To betray my own political inclinations for a moment, I'm going to say that Stacey Arams is just an impressive person, I don't think that there is a Stacey Abrams fashion blog.