Category: Media Commentary
Examining the way stories involving women with power & influence are written about in articles and on social media
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The Diet Culture Reckoning…How Far We’ve (failed to) Come
I recently wrote an article about Ozempic, a word that just a year ago many of us had never heard before. And now it’s a tried and true part of our vernacular. The supposed “miracle drug” had been around for years (since 2017, to be precise), but last summer it seemed that everyone finally cottoned… Read more
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Ozempic — Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?
Tis the season… The season for inane marketing campaigns telling you to lose weight in time for bikini season cleverly disguised as “hot girl summer inspo”. But this year, it feels a bit different. Why, you ask? The answer, of course, is Ozempic. This may not be the first summer that Ozempic is on the… Read more
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Bumble’s Fumble
By now we’ve all seen the Bumble anti-celibacy ads right…? RIGHT? In a year that’s already seen a new CEO and an abandonment of Bumble’s cardinal rule of having women make the first move, I thought we were done with Bumble-related controversies for a while. But alas… ICYMI, Bumble’s clearly seen the new trends taking… Read more
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Fake It Til You Make It?
Probably not the wisest move here… Did you hear the one about the conference with fake female speakers? Not a knock knock joke, this is something that actually happened in 2023. DevTernity, an online conference for developers, was canceled last week after being called out for including fake female speakers in its lineup. Conference organizers claim… Read more
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OpenAI’s Board Drama
Why do we care? Did you ever read articles about famous actors who married non-actors and think to yourself wow, that could be me? Yeah, me neither… I remember talking about it with my mom, marveling at how certain actors who married “normies” (as I learned we call them via DeuxMoi) managed to keep their… Read more