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Bethenny Frankel, co-star of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New York and founder of Skinny Girl Vodka, suggested at a conference Monday that women entrepreneurs should hire a white guy to be a the face of the business.
While the conference, Rent the Runway’s and UBS’s Project Entrepreneur, wasn’t recorded, the answer was drawn during a question and answer session by Mary Pryor, who on Twitter fashions herself an UrbanSocialista, Digital Social Fitness and Holistic Lover.”
“I was stunned when Frankel implied that women should have sex with men in exchange for capital,” Pryor wrote after the event on The Huffington Post. “I was offended when she expressed some kind of kinship with black women because she’s ‘loud.’ And I was taken aback when she advised those of us in the room to get business advice to hire a white man as the face of our companies.”
She shared some thoughts in real-time on Twitter during the event:
https://twitter.com/msmarypryor/status/719545343440850944
https://twitter.com/msmarypryor/status/719545745905291264
https://twitter.com/msmarypryor/status/719546403651846144
Pryor earned some plaudits for her exchange with Frankel:
Great conf at #PEIntensive16 until in @Bethenny's Q&A, she essentially proposed the erasure of black women as faces of entrepreneurship.
— Marah Lidey (@marahml) April 9, 2016
To the brave black woman who asked what to do when ppl tell her to get a white man as the face of her org,Im so sorry for @Bethenny's answer
— Marah Lidey (@marahml) April 9, 2016
https://twitter.com/adamquinton/status/719509840599609345
“Many of the women of color in the audience turned their heads in shock. Some took to the mic, prepared to address the inflammatory remarks,” Pryor continued in her post. “While Frankel’s flawed advice comes with unfortunate truths regarding access to funding – white men do get the lion’s share of venture capital funding while black women founders don’t seem to even register on the radar.”
h/t: The Daily Mail
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