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CMV: It’s hypocritical to believe that a prom dress is cultural appropriation but the 2018 MET Gala isn’t.

I just watched the 2018 MET Gala line inspired by religion (combined with pictures of celebrities dressed ornately as church representatives) and I don’t believe there’s any way to reconcile the support for a religion inspired fashion line with somebody’s prom dress becoming a target for hate. 

I get that the Gala is about artistic expressions, which often have commentary on social issues. To me, a prom dress is the same kind of artistic expression through fashion, even if more muted. So we’re only okay with famous people appropriating? 

It wasn’t just Catholicism, either. The line featured many religions that were displayed sort of stereotypically or what I would have thought to be offensively. Would everyone have sat quietly if the theme was Islam? What if celebrities wore their own version of a Burka? Even in the line itself there was a depiction of a Chinese woman carrying a cross, dressed in the stereotypical dress and makeup. How is that not appropriation, but someone just wearing a prom dress is? 

I personally don’t believe either are but I’m thinking maybe I’m missing something.
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I agree that cultural appropriation is normally a bunch of claptrap, but there is a difference in these two cases.

The gala was partially sponsored but the catholic church this year, the whole religious theming was their idea to begin with.

So a proponent of cultural appropriation could argue that they had permission at the Gala while the Prom dress person did not.