Did Westbrook just suggest that Charles is sexually harassing and assaulting people, Harvey Weinstein-style? It would appear so. You're threatening to embarrass them, and you're doing that to have them behave sexually in your favor, even if they're straight." "You are using your fame, your power, your money, to play with people's emotions. In amongst all of that stuff about table manners and targeting straight men, Westbrook addresses Charles directly: Now to the single craziest thing about this video.
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Maybe this one is not entirely his fault. Isn't that when we're our most unfiltered selves? Second, while talking about sex acts in front of one's parents is definitely creepy, if the parents are tolerating it at the dinner table with zero objections, that probably says more about them and his upbringing than anything else. But let's not forget, he's only 19, and this was a private conversation amongst the closest people in his life.
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Like 'sucking dick and cock'."įirst of all, James Charles clearly needs to get the phrase "sexuality is a spectrum" in rotation. Like, I thought around his parents that he would not behave this way, it was just no big deal. Him talking explicitly about sex and things that he would like to do. So talking about that at the dinner table with his parents was kind of weird. I was shocked that James, even then, was saying to his dad that every man is a little bit gay, and that there's no such thing as a straight man. It definitely feels like a double standard. There's no way of knowing for sure, but it's also difficult to imagine Westbrook getting this upset about a straight woman frequently expressing an attraction to gay men. As such, there is a chance that Charles was just trying to flip that script. But straight women have been saying the very same things about gay men for decades. and retweet this and that, and 'I love straight boys, I love straight boys,' and make it a joke." "How dare you laugh about it, and make meme after meme. ( One from the 1960s that came with a message about gay men being predators, particularly around young boys, described homosexuality as "a sickness that’s not visible like smallpox, but no less dangerous and contagious.") Whether you're a woman, a man, gay, straight, bi, whatever sexual orientation you are, that is your personal call and it is not someone else's to take."įirst of all, Westbrook is implying here that sexual preference is something that can be forced onto others, which is not only the entire basis of conversion therapy, it's also the crux of what old homophobic PSAs used to say about gay men. You know, it's really disgusting to manipulate someone's sexuality, especially when they are still, you know, emerging into adulthood and don't quite have everything figured out.
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Oh my God, you tried to trick a straight man into thinking he's gay yet again.
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"The last phone conversation that James Charles and I had, he telling me about a situation that. The way that Westbrook describes Charles' sexual boundary issues are rooted in a fair amount of good old-fashioned homophobia. In short, she makes him sound like a nightmare to be around in any capacity, be it personal or professional. The main takeaways from Westbrook's video are, essentially: James Charles is a terrible friend, an unapologetic narcissist, a master manipulator, an inappropriate dinner guest and a violator of other people's personal space. To date, it has been viewed 34 million times. In order to explain her side of things and bid her old friend goodbye, Westbrook made a 43-minute video ( 43 minutes!) in which she went into great detail about exactly what happened, when, and just how little Charles has given her in return, in terms of friendship, respect and, um, birthday party etiquette. Westbrook was hurt over the slight-understandably so, given how much assistance she gave Charles in growing both his audience and income in the earlier part of his career. The drama started after Charles endorsed Sugar Bear Hair vitamins, a direct rival company to Westbrook's Halo Beauty line. Over the weekend, a whole bunch of drama kicked off between Cover Girl's first male ambassador, James Charles, and his one time mentor, beauty blogger Tati Westbrook.