Warning: if you are a Labubu or a Tradwife, you may feel personally victimized by this episode. In another book review episode, we explore two main threads of Girl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert: Voyeurism in the online space, and weaponized wifehood as a tactic to quell women’s liberation. We cover:
• “Specular media” and how exposing our lives is a mechanism to feel less lonely
• The phenomenon of marketing through “real” personalities (and why it works so well)
• Voyeuristic content as a means of controlling the narrative in a world stacked against us
• Universalizing the personal as a creative act (especially for women)
• The harmful origins of the tradwife trend and the concerning obsession with wifehood
• What the Labubu craze is telling us about modern adulthood and consumerism
• Patriarchal structures disguised as “feminine leisure”
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