44 min listen
Soft Girls Don't Want Your Hustle with Steph McNeil
Soft Girls Don't Want Your Hustle with Steph McNeil
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Length:
44 minutes
Released:
Oct 18, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
Have you heard about #softgirls? They're young women who want to check out of hustle culture. Their greatest dream is to achieve nothing. She doesn't want to be a girl boss. In fact, a lot of them do not want to work for pay at all. She just wants to perfect her skincare regime and do all the Pilates. Are these women aspiring to be little more than trophy wives? Are they the gateway drug to #tradwives and a life of submission to men? We're here to find out with Glamour reporter Stephanie McNeal who wrote a truly excellent piece on the #softgirls for Glamour mag.Read all of Steph's Glamour pieces, but especially her one on soft girls here.You can buy her book Swipe Up For More here.As always, you can pre-order the Sicilian Inheritance and I might just show up at your house with Sicilian wine and cannoli.
Released:
Oct 18, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Women's Work: Mom influencing is a multi-billion dollar industry. How the hell did we get here? How did influencing become a job? Why doesn’t Wikipedia mention mom bloggers in their history of women and what does the 19th Century economic philosopher Thorstein Veblen have to do with why we are so enchanted by people who seem wealthier than we are. Consider this your history lesson of women influencing other women to attempt to lead more perfect lives. We start in 1896 with the creation of Vogue, wonder if Lucille Ball was actually the first mom influencer, and scroll all the way to the the beautiful mess of the early Mom Internet. Moms have been commodified since the beginning of moms, the only difference now is who is making the goddamn money. And if past is prologue, will answering all these questions help Jo figure out how to become the influencer of her dreams? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informati by Under the Influence with Jo Piazza