As a feminist, it pains me to criticize hard-working, ambitious female entrepreneurs. As a pop-culture journalist with a passion for drama, it brings me great delight. Sophia Amoruso, former CEO of the now bankrupt clothing company Nasty Gal and inspiration for the failed Netflix series “Girlboss,” and Gwyneth Paltrow, Oscar winner turned vaginal steaming specialist,…
It can be tempting, sometimes, to yearn for the days when natural selection would off people dumb enough to believe that inserting a jade egg into that place where the sun don’t shine will prevent uterine prolapse. Unfortunately, the invention of things like glasses and deodorant has made natural selection obsolete and that means when…
Both Alex Jones and Gwyneth Paltrow are famous for their inability to distinguish reality from, to put it simply, looney tune theories about how the world works. But could they just be the duo we need to bring together a divided America? The newest “Daily Show” correspondent, Michael Kosta, explains his hilarious theory. Watch below….
Gwyneth Paltrow has made a career transition out of acting into professionally unsettling people with unsubstantiated health claims on her lifestyle site, Goop. Since 2008, Paltrow has inspired an angry army, from doctors who have debunked her claims to regular denizens of the internet who just don’t want an actress-turned-mogul to encourage them to steam…
So Gwyneth Paltrow hosted a silly-sounding, outrageously-priced, somewhat disorganized-sounding health event. So what?, you might ask. The stakes are the highly profitable wellness industry, of which this event was a high-profile part. Most obviously, where there is “wellness,” all too often, there is pseudoscience. In the New York Post, Maureen Callahan describes what happened when…
Of the “hundreds” who attended In Goop Health, a day-long Los Angeles event, there were – as Becky Scott points out – a not-insignificant number of lifestyle reporters. So much has been written about the event that it can feel like the attendees were all there to cover the event, until you take into account…
For those of us with cash to spare and a deep mistrust of modern medicine, Gwyneth Paltrow threw a GOOP conference this past Saturday in Culver City, CA. Tickets to the conference, cleverly named “In goop Health” went on sale in April for between $500 and $1500 dollars and quickly sold out. While, presumably, there…
Last night, Apple released its first original series ‘Planet of the Apps,’ a show that features several entrepreneurs developing a mobile app that they then pitch to a panel of “advisors,” who vote on whether or not they’re interested in the concept. As if this show doesn’t already sound like something nobody would ever want…
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