Boycott Dolce and Gabbana: Gays Can Be Hypocritical, Prejudiced Dumbasses, Too

[DonViejo]

Tim Teeman

The 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 John’s 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 Gabbana’s 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 wouldn’t make sense for me to make love to a woman I don’t 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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[jberryhill]

1. Unless Rush Limbaugh Needs A Wedding Singer... /nt

[3catwoman3]

2. Well, it will be a considerable sacrifice, but...

...I suppose I can get my designer duds from another house -

[magical thyme]

3. hypocritical?

Is he saying gays are insufficiently critical? Or did he mean hypercritical? Sorry, but I can't make sense of the title.

[ND-Dem]

5. ....

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]

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]

4. People in the fashion world being shallow assholes?

You're kidding me!

[Dr. Strange]

6. Are "synthetic" children considered GMO?

Do they have to labeled as such?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. Do you have to vaccinate them?

And if so, will they end up autistic?