Ugh, amazing.

Additionally... that sounds very uncomfortable

That's fair; if it really didn't matter now, more high profile people would come out. Still, as a very private non-famous person, I rarely bother with coming out; I think I lowkey read as lesbian and most gay people/occasional straight people pick up on it w/o my having to take the trouble.

ngl I'm kind of into it

If they're pretty private about everything, I respect that (bias: I am pretty private about everything). If they're vocal about progressive causes, LGBT allyship, etc, then yeah I find that a little hypocritical.

On balance I think it would be a net positive if rich successful people came out.

I quite enjoyed her Fashion Neurosis interview!

Some campaigners claim it is ‘vanishingly rare’ that men use the law to abuse women. This is not true. History shows us that when new laws are introduced, even/especially pro-feminist laws, men are swift to identify and weaponise loopholes against women. Here are some examples:

The genuine hot take is that there are hundreds of Holocaust movies but hardly any about centuries of non-Holocaust antisemitism not because "the Jews" want it, but rather because the heroes of the Holocaust movies tend to be non-Jews saving Jews, which is what audiences like to see.

And what I'm thinking is that if the way out was acceptable to think & write about Jews changed so fast, it's quite feasible - likely, even - that the change was shallow. That Europeans (possibly Germans aside) haven't really properly contended with what it meant to have attitudes like those. 》