No, that's not accurate. Dale Dougherty claimed publicly on his Twitter feed that Naomi Wu wasn't a real person, but rather multiple people manufacturing a persona. The subtext of the tweet is probably that Wu is a photogenic marketing spokesperson for the brand. It's not a cultural or moral critique. It's a grave, specific, and apparently entirely false one.
We don't need to get wound up into a knot about sexual mores to recognize that nobody should have to defend themselves against false accusations that they're not even a real person.
Nobody should have to defend themselves against false accusations that they're not even a real person. This issue is simpler than the thread here makes it sound.
I agree that there's probably an unpleasant subtext behind this guy's decision to wreck Naomi Wu's career. All I'm saying is, we don't have to reach that issue to see how reckless what he did was.
> Nobody should have to defend themselves against false accusations that they're not even a real person.
Do you mean the accusation that someone is playing a role for marketing purposes, and is not actually like the image portrayed? Why is that such an inconceivable accusation? Why should nobody have to defend herself against that?
> If she were a dude with an unfitted black tee...
That's an odd argument. Why would someone manufacture a schlubby geek persona? Seems like attractiveness and distinctiveness are key qualities in a (hypothetical) persona.
We don't need to get wound up into a knot about sexual mores to recognize that nobody should have to defend themselves against false accusations that they're not even a real person.