Breaking! Glamour's former fashion/style blogger once said something that was inadvertently offensive to black people. Naturally, the girl was promptly fired, a mere six weeks after the fact.
ALWAYS composed Cindi Leive - the Glamour editrix who presides over the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) - shocked staffers at a recent editorial meeting when she became "outraged" and "furious" at fashion editor Ashley Baker. Leive had just read a story in American Lawyer magazine, which reported that during a presentation in June to a group of women at a law firm, Baker had declared that "dreadlocks or Afros are a definite 'no.' "
As for us, we can't decide what's more shocking. The fact that Glamour magazine had a hidden follicle bigot in their midsts, or that editor-in-chief Cindi Leive is only "just" learning about all this now. Especially given that the story is six weeks old, and Baker blogged about the now infamous presentation the very same day it happened.
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She wasn't a Beauty Blogger…she was the Fashion Features Editor and fashion blogger…
If people get fired, it's not because they don't believe in bigotry but because they are fearful of the backlash.
Jim Nelson of GQ came under fire using the phrase "Asian whores" earlier this year, but because there is no such thing as an Asian Al Sharpton, nothing really happened other than small Page Six item.
If he had said that about almost any other minority, he would have been fired immediately and a long time ago.
Of course Glamour knew about the problem for weeks and kept quiet about it. Totally bad move on management's part. Now they're trying to pretend that they had no knowledge of this and place all the blame on their junior staffer Ashley. Ashley told Jezebel.com the real story today: she tried to apologize weeks ago for her ignorant comment, but Glamour wouldn't let her.