I’m looking around at our empowerment spaces at the payment plans being offered and I’m seeing some arguably predatory practices.
Likability, authority. Marketing designed to automatically trigger particular behaviours has political consequences: we get in the habit of obeying.
When someone is trying to get us to like them and they have a commercial interest vested in us liking them, you need more information before proceeding.
Women with other dominant identities – white, cis, straight, able-bodied, thin – can leverage their privilege, power, and platforms to make new norms.
When it comes to reciprocity, a justice lever, some of us activate the need to reciprocate in order to disproportionately advantage ourselves over others.
Women are not failing to lean in and we’re not failing at work-life balance; work and life – which is to say, our society – are failing us.
The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand is about a few people learning how to switch positions in the existing hierarchy: that hierarchy is white patriarchy.
The self-improvement industry is often about correcting the fundamental problem our culture has with us: that we are women.That we are a problem to be fixed
The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand is a problematic ideology of ideal femininity sold to us by the entrepreneurs and leaders we most trust, and hire.