Fkn Goop, but it’s all of us…

Gwyneth Paltrow is like that gal you graduated h.s. with - seemingly snobby, but then you talk to her and you think, “eh, she’s nice, she’s just a product of her environment, is actually kinda funny, and why am I a bitch all the time?!” Well, wait no further, b/c Bitch Media has a couple a’ things to say about ol’ GP and her latest “book”. It is indeed a book, but, ya know….”intuitive fasting”….is for rich people who literally never have to worry about where their next meal is coming from versus skipping meals b/c you have to ration b/c you’ve got no g.d. money, or perhaps you truly deal with disordered eating (as I do, and meal restriction is one of the ways I control my food life, UGH).

While Paltrow is perceived as a leader in this modern “wellness” movement, she’s merely capitalizing on the pervasive othering, disregarding, and harming of women in medicine. Though we shouldn’t continue laughing at Goop’s various pursuits, we also can’t scapegoat Paltrow for problems that existed long before she began promoting vagina steaming. In other words, as long as medicine continues to leave people with uteruses behind, the market will be ripe for Paltrow’s style of pseudo wellness.

Goop She Did It Again - The Dangerous Obsession with Intuitive Fasting, by Andréa Becker via Bitch Media.