“Once an avid listener, I can’t help but feel the show is losing touch with its audience, and becoming a soapbox for insightless privileged women. I indeed am a privileged white woman, a 34 year-old psychiatrist, but I am continually astounded by the way lavish holidays are discussed, juxtaposed with complaints about cost of living and generational inequality. Jessie, ride the Freedman-Lavigne clickbait gravy train for all it’s worth, but please don’t simultaneously paint yourself as ‘self-made’, struggling with cost of living. And Mia, please, stop with your supposed ADHD talk - funnily enough this has prompted no impairment, and does not respond AT ALL to medication, seemingly only becoming worse. Perhaps the diagnosis is incorrect. The way you speak about being a mother, too, is both entitled and idealistic, and alienates anyone who has struggled to become a mother, or is struggling to be a mother. Your immense privilege is also well known to all, so please stop with all the talk of how hard you work- yes, you may work hard, but look around - there are people working 100 times as hard for 100 times less reward, for whom there was no intergenerational wealth providing connections and a leg up. Holly, you’re the most worthwhile to listen to, but you are enabling a lot of the meaningless, sanctimonious drivel that is becoming commonplace. Please, find your roots again, or you’ll lose all but the most privileged, out of touch section of your audience. Filtering your Facebook page in the most Trumpian way also will not ingratiate your audience, nor will curating your content to only include the most palatable non-contentious issues women are talking about. No, women are not talking about Jessie or Mia’s nepotism love-in or Jill Biden.
And… just when it seemed it couldn’t get any more anti-feminist and self indulgent, a subscriber segment on ‘when is Jessie having another baby?’ Bravo ! It’s a race to the bottom.”
Cathh1990 via Apple Podcasts ·
Australia ·
07/24/24