Cara Delevingne responds to her Vogue article that claimed her bisexuality
is simply be a "phase".
“My
sexuality is not a phase,” the 22-year-old tells The New York Times. “I am who I am.”
“Being
in love helps, you know?” she adds saying how it helps
when it comes to her acting.
“If
you’re in love with someone, you can be with them like no one else is in the
room. Acting is like that. It’s like taking that feeling and turning it on so nothing
else matters when you’re looking in another actor’s face,” she says.
A care2 petition has
been started, stating that the article's writer, Rob Haskell used a harmful
stereotype characterizing the supermodel's relationships with women as a
"phase" -- in the piece. magazine, opening up about her mental
illness, her mother's heroin addiction, careermoves, and revealing she is in a committed
same-sex relationship with musician Annie
Clark, known to many by her stage name, St. Vincent.
Unfortunately
for the fashion powerhouse, some
readers were less than pleased with the language
More than 10,000
LGBTQ protesters have signed the petition, demanding an apology from Vogue's
Editor-in-Chief, Anna Wintour.
In the article, Haskell writes: "Her parents seem to think
girls are just a phase for Cara, and they may be correct... When I suggest to
Cara that to trust a man, she might have to revise an old and stubborn idea of
hers - that women are perennially troubled and therefore only women will accept
her - her smile says she concedes the point."
"The idea that queer women only form relationships with
other women as a result of childhood trauma is a harmful (and false) stereotype
that lesbian and bisexual women have been combating for decades," Care2
petition author Julie Rodriguez says.
"How could Vogue's editorial staff green-light this article
and publish it without anyone raising concerns about this dismissive and
demeaning language?"
Rodriguez insists that the publication should instead
"applaud Cara for coming out as queer, and being open about her
relationships with men and women."
At the time this article was written, the petition had surpassed
its goal of 12,000 signatures.
What do you think? Should Vogue apologize for its
language used to describe Cara's relationship?
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