[gondramB]

"Personally, I didn't see any thing wrong with what Mizrahi did. Sure he pushed the boundaries but those shows can be awfully boring and stuffy."

Hmmm except the part where he touched women inappropriately and non-consensually - they almost hung Arnold out there for that.

[Emmalein]

I'm going out on a limb here...as a woman, I think that there is a BIG difference between a sexually based "touch" and one that's not. I understand that we all have physical boundaries that we don't like crossed and for most people what he did would not have been acceptable. However, it IS different when the touch is sexual in meaning and when it's not. It's like when Trinny & Susannah (not sure of the spelling) of the British version of What Not To Wear grab at the woman's breasts to show them that they aren't wearing the right bra. Mizrahi, as gay as he is, is like a female friend, so the gesture is interpreted in a friendlier, less threatening way, IMHO.