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What is "Goop"?




Overpriced pseudoscientific junk products sold to gullible people and hyped by a minor celebrity obsessed with her vagina.


> obsessed with her vagina

Who has a basic misunderstanding on what exactly a vagina is.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/goops-netflix-series...


This is what decades of de-prioritizing education funding looks like.


I think this is more what years of teaching people the wrong things entirely looks like. There was an opinion piece in the New York Times of all places that equated criticism of that show with misogyny because 'women in particular have been mocked, reviled, and murdered for maintaining knowledge and practices that frightened, confused and confounded “the authorities.”' https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/opinion/goop-gwyneth-palt... Like, this is an argument that they expect the most educated and informed members of American society to buy, and given what we've been teaching people maybe they're right.


Ouch. The only thing that surprised me about this is that someone of Betty Dodson's stature agreed to be on Paltrow's show. This is kind of like Bob Woodward appearing as a commentator on Fox News.


Gwynneth Paltrow's personal online store. People get annoyed because she's into alternative health stuff but it's really just a store for people who have the same taste as Gwynneth Paltrow.


Also she named one kid "apple" :o


A surprisingly popular aesthetic! ^_^




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