Bethenny Frankel Divided a Room Full of Entrepreneurs When She Suggested Black Women Get White Guys to Rep Them
LatestOn Saturday, Skinny Girl Vodka founder Bethenny Frankel appeared as the keynote speaker at women’s entrepreneurial summit, Rent The Runway’s and UBS’s Project Entrepreneur. Her speech certainly got people talking.
An entrepreneur named Mary Pryor wrote about her experience at the event, and she says the following about what went down during the Q&A when Frankel was asked about the challenges of raising funding for women of color:
I was stunned when Frankel implied that women should have sex with men in exchange for capital. 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.
There’s no recording of the event, but a number of people have commented on the ensuing shit storm on Twitter.