To think Alison Roman was both unfair and racist in her comments about Chrissy Teigen and Marie Kondo?

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I'd only vaguely heard of food writer Alison Roman but in a recent interview she did, she's singled out Marie Kondo and Chrissy Teigen as examples of people who have 'capitalized' on their fame by selling products and that Chrissy's business model 'horrifies' her. She's now been heavily criticised and offered an apology on her Twitter which was one of those 'sorry I hurt your feelings' apologies, after first posting that she wishes someone would hold her hand in the face of the backlash...as if she's the victim here!

Now, many people have noted that she's just 'coincidentally' chosen two very successful women who are both (at least in part) Asian as examples of commercialisation. I think this is entirely correct to call out - there are any number of men and women who sell product ranges with their name and branding, yet she somehow happened to land on these two women as examples of everything she doesn't want to be? Alison also posted that she didn't mean to attack other women, but she hasn't at all addressed the implicit racial bias she's demonstrated. (She does mention Goop briefly in another part of the interview, but not Gwyneth.) She also mentions that she's also doing a product 'collaboration', but of course when she does it it's fine, because she's so artisinal and whatnot, not like Marie and Chrissy

newconsumer.com/2020/05/alison-roman-interview/

Quite agree with you.

This tweet made the least sense in that she couldn't see that she was referring to herself "when women bully other women for being honest about money and how much they do or do not make, well, thats amore"

I had not heard of her, I read the article and she is very dull and I hope she doesn’t become famous off the back of her comments.

That Chrissy is also or was also an Executive Producer on her upcoming show is such a wonderful story arc. I've never seen anyone backtrack that quickly - she must have given herself whiplash.

I also have never heard of her however my daughter just told me that this is all over Twitter at the moment .

I totally agree with you. Why not reference Martha Stewart, who not only fully ‘sold out’ by producing a massive line of branded products, but was also actually convicted of insider trading? Why go after Chrissy Tiegen instead?

There was a recent furore over a twitter user who said that she had decided to quit Instagram. She linked to a picture on @hillhousevintage saying ‘please know that this is this picture that made me quit’. The picture was of a woman sitting reading a book on a picnic rug in front of her beautiful, extravagant Georgian home. And people were quick to point out not only that the owner of the hill house vintage account is black, she’s one of very few black creators of that kind of interior design content on Instagram, but there are hundreds of white women doing similar.

If you have no problem with white women cashing in on their own lives and brand for money but suddenly think it’s ‘selling out’ or inauthentic or crazy or whatever when a woman of colour does it, you owe it to yourself and others to question why THOSE women triggered those feelings in you when the very many more white people doing the same thing did not.

Yep was racist. I'd never heard of her until today.

Unknown trying to get attention by slagging off celebs. Tale as old as time.

Urgh, I need a shower after reading that article, wash off the smug!

She made an arse of herself , Poor Chrissy was deeply upset about it but being an executive producer on a project she is meant to be involved in was good though . It’s pretty shite to try badmouth people when you work in a similar area as .

All those who are voting YABU, care to elaborate on why? Whether or not she intended to be racist is besides the point, as others have said, there are a million and one examples of others who have marketed products, why pick on those two, who happen to be non-white and hugely successful? Some media outlets are labelling this as a 'feud' just because Chrissy has come out and defended herself - there is no feud, AR slagged off Chrissy and Marie in a completely random and unnecessary way. And @zscaler has pointed to another example which shows that people are very quick to criticise successful people of colour for doing exactly what others are doing.

All those who are voting YABU, care to elaborate on why?

Maybe because she said those things to get publicity which you are fueling?

Agree wholeheartedly.

Well, she backtracked pretty sharpish that she really wasn't doing a bad Japanese accent when saying 'please to buy my cutting board', didn't she? It was merely a piss take about Eastern European people's grasp of English. So that's OK, then. Racism is OK if it's racist towards somebody else instead of the person/group it was used in direct reference to?

In any case, it's all about how they've 'sold out' by merchandising - whilst she also talks about the merchandising deals she's got on the go and how she needs to monetise to buy herself a house. But she's different, apparently.

I wonder whether some people will ever develop any self awareness. Probably not whilst the money's still rolling in.

This was a good analysis of it I thought but yeah I can imagine her agent ringing her up with a "WTF are you saying about the EP of your show - who has a much bigger audience/platform than you do"

twitter.com/raventbrunner/status/1258986735184330759?s=20

Oh and the "its a little in -joke amongst my friends was sooo false

Apparently she had posted quotes from it on her insta with shrugs so even in hindsight she was proud of it.
She clearly lives in a bubble and can’t see out of it.

Never heard of her before. She’s either a bit stupid or has deliberately done it to get the attention. I have no respect for her, she should have been able to confidently answer questions about her own business plans and ethos without using examples of people she DIDN’T want to be like.

YANBU. Both unfair and racist. And apologetic because of the backlash, not because she said the wrong thing.

Don’t you get tired that anytime there’s criticism or someone gives an opinion, it’s racist? Maybe she just chose those two people cause she wanted to, with no racist overtones.

Marie Kondo did sell out by encouraging people to get rid of their stuff and then opens an online store to buy her overpriced "lifestyle" products.

Chrissy Teigen is fabulous at calling people out. Her response just slipping in the exec producer thing is just spot on.

I've never heard of this woman before but she's a dick, racist or a poor choice of 'examples' who can be sure, but why the need to pull down other people.

I eagerly await her line of cookware in the future

I don't agree on calling other people out on twitter and shaming them, particularly when she appears to be doing the same thing. However, I don't agree with it being racist.

Never heard of her before. I don’t see how it was racist, unless you’re not allowed to criticise anyone of another race, but she was a bloody cheeky cow for criticising them when she is flogging products of her own. Sounded more jealous than anything else.

I haven’t followed this because I don’t know Alison Roman and didn’t know Chrissy Tegan had a cooking page as I thought she was a model. But surely everyone these days is trying to make money, sell products etc. What on Earth is wrong with that? So is she criticising someone else in her same field of work for doing the same thing as her? Odd.

Do people really care about celebrity tittle tattle like this? Yuck.

If you can’t be successful without dragging other people down then you really aren’t as good as you think you are. She sounds utterly vile. How is her having a line of fucking vintage spoons any different 🤷‍♀️ It’s still crap people don’t need.