Jameela Jamil Calls Out ‘Famous Feminist’ for Attending Met Gala Celebrating Karl Lagerfeld

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Not budging. Jameela Jamil is doubling down on her disdain for the 2023 Met Gala theme, “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty.”  Following the Monday, May 1, soirée, which celebrated the late designer’s work in fashion, Jamil, 37, took to Instagram to shame the event’s attendees.    “Last night Hollywood and fashion said the quiet part out loud when a lot of famous feminists chose to celebrate at the highest level, a man who was so publicly cruel to women, to fat people, to immigrants and to sexual assault survivors,” the Good Place alum wrote via Instagram on Tuesday, May 2, in reference to Lagerfeld — who died at age 85 in 2019.    “All the women’s publications, spectators online, chose to gleefully ignore it,” Jamil continued. “Suddenly your appetite to find someone’s tweets from when they were 12, has gone,” she wrote, calling out “cancel culture.”  Jamil added: “Nobody has perfect morals, least of all me, but Jesus Christ, we had a year to course correct here, and not award the highest honor possible to a known bigot … and everyone just decided all of a sudden, we can separate the art from the artist when *convenient*.

And it’s one rule for us, and another rule for everybody else. Last night, we relinquished our right to be taken at all seriously about anything important.”  In order to view the video, please allow Manage Cookies The London native addressed the matter further in the caption of her social media post. “It’s not even about Karl,” she began. “It’s about showing selective cancel culture is within liberal politics, in the most blatant way so far.

It’s about showing why people don’t trust liberals. Because of slippery tactics and double standards like this. And it’s not just Hollywood here, the general