She’s not the type of girl to hold back. On Wednesday, Megyn Kelly, 52, wondered aloud if Gwen Stefani, 53, had “crossed the line” by telling Allure magazine that she is Japanese, despite not having such an ancestry.
The veteran conservative commentator accused Allure Senior Editor Jesa Marie Calaor, who spoke to Stefani for the post, of sensationalizing Ms. Blake Shelton’s statements on her SiriusXM show, calling Calaor a “very young reporter” and a “blockhead” to name.
Kelly compared Stefani’s statements to a transgender person who came out after claiming that Calaor, an Asian American, should just get over getting racial slurs. It would be “no problem” if Gwen Stefani came out as transgender the next day, Kelly said.
In other words, she has no trouble expressing herself. However, the Allure staff has given her a collective “tsk-tsk” for the “I am Japanese” article, with many pundits stepping in to say she’s once again engaged in cultural appropriation.
Kelly continued by saying that the Stefani dispute “isn’t a Hilaria Baldwin situation,” referring to the two-year-old Spanish heritage scandal involving Baldwin. There’s little doubt that Gwen Stefani has never wanted to hide the fact that she’s half Japanese.
Kelly interpreted what she said to mean: “In my soul I connected with these people and their culture,” and praised the beauty of the culture. You idiot Allure writer, that’s a hymn. The scenario is not analogous to that of Hilaria Baldwinwho falsely claimed to be Hispanic, but is actually from the United States.
Anyway, I think it’s pretty funny. Stefani has long been accused of cultural appropriation, and was recently said to have taken elements of the harajuku fashion scene from Tokyo’s hipster mecca, Harajuku.
According to Calaor, Stefani spent most of their 32-minute conversation discussing the allegations against her in her piece “The Sweet Escape.” The author recalled that “she said she is Japanese several times during that time.”
The daughter of an Italian-American father and an Irish-American mother, Stefani has told Allure that she considers herself “a little bit of an Orange County girl, a little bit of a Japanese girl, a little bit of an English girl.”
As one student put it: “[I]It should be okay to be influenced by other cultures, because if we’re not allowed, then that divides people, right?” she thought of Allure.
After the piece was published, Calaor said a representative of the “The Voice” judge called her and tried to explain that the journalist had misinterpreted Stefani’s intentions. When Allure asked for an explanation, Stefani and her associates reportedly declined to comment on the record.
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