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TIL that Gwyneth Paltrow is not just a harmless grifter (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by sgibson5150 to c/todayilearned@lemmy.ml

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I never went as far as to defend Gwyneth Paltrow, but after her Hot Ones appearance I created a post (which I will link in the comments) where I suggested that she's done no more harm than male grifters and that the dislike of her as a person was primarily due to misogyny. That's before I learned about her promotion of these unproven "vampire facials". Now an unlicensed clinic performing this procedure has given at least three women HIV. You guys were right and I was wrong.

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[–] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 32 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Your default assumption is that any criticism of a woman must be misogyny? Even when that woman's actions primarily impact women's health? Interesting.

[–] macrocarpa@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Story time.

During a conversation amongst friends the topic of male on female violence came up. there was recently a stabbing attack in Australia where a schizophrenic man stabbed and killed multiple women in a Sydney shopping centre.

A female friend raised the statistic that 26 women had been killed in the first 114 days of 2024. She made a point of saying Every 4.38 days a woman is violently killed

I asked - because I didn't know - Is that like heaps more than last year?how many people would normally die in the same period?

She said "that's a pretty misogynistic thing to say”

So I googled it and I can't even find the homicide rate in Australia for 2024.

I am really fucking irritated about this. I assume she had assumed from my question that I was waving off the importance of gender in gendered violence but how that translates into misogyny is beyond me

[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 6 months ago

People have their own agendas and biases.

Did you know that Conservatives in America perform 95% of the crimes in America?

[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 0 points 6 months ago

This line of reasoning doesn't make sense. Haters being worse to women than men specifically because of gender has nothing to do with what that person actually does.