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Dr Jen Gunter's blog is pretty entertaining: https://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2017/05/22/dear-gwyneth-paltrow-were-not-fcking-with-you/ https://drjengunter.wo
by shoo 9y ago
Dr Jen Gunter's blog is pretty entertaining:
https://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2017/05/22/dear-gwyneth-paltrow-were-not-fcking-with-you/ https://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2017/05/22/dear-gwyneth-pa...
https://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2017/07/14/goops-misogynistic-mansplaining-hit-job/ https://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2017/07/14/goops-misogynis...
> The editors at GOOP find me “strangely confident” in my “assertion that putting a crystal in your vagina for pelvic-floor strengthening exercises would put you in danger of getting Toxic Shock Syndrome—even though there is no study/case/report which links the two.” I am not strangely confident about vaginal health, I am appropriately confident because I am the expert. I did 4 years of medical school, a 5 year OB/GYN residency, a 1 year fellowship in infectious diseases, I am board certified in OB/GYN in 2 countries, I am board certified by the American Board of Pain Medicine and the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in Pain Medicine and I am appropriately styled Dr. Jen Gunter MD, FRCS(C), FACOG, DABPM, ABPM (pain). A woman with no medical training who tells women to walk around with a jade egg in their vaginas all day, a jade egg that they can recharge with the energy of the moon no less, is the strangely confident one.
> What astounds me the most is that GOOP and Gundry have targeted me. After all Stephen Colbert has mocked GOOP mercilessly several times. Gizmodo blasted GOOP over the fake NASA band aids. Tim Caulfield wrote an entire book Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything. Jezebel has taken GOOP to task. The Atlantic put up a blistering piece about Dr. Gundry’s lectin hypothesis and supplement selling. Vox coined the phrase GOOPshit. Quartz said GOOP is simply bespoke Infowars. A study took Paltrow to task for recipes involving unsafe food preparation. Why do I get under GOOPs dry brushed skin? I am not anymore right than anyone else who has taken on GOOP and Paltrow, although a reporter from the New York Times once called me a gift from the quote Gods so it is possible that I have a unique way of quickly summing up what is wrong with GOOP in a relatable way. It is also possible that they think I am an easy target because I am just a chick with a blog as opposed to a man with a blog or a reporter with a national or even international reach or a talk show host who can leverage writers, a PR team and an audience of millions. In short, is it because they think they can bully me?
edit: i should give give her a bit more credit than that. Dr Gunter is providing a valuable public service while exposing herself to online abuse + possible legal action from the snake-oil-vendors.
- Jedd 9y agoI read Dr Gunter's blog recently - initially the response to the attacks made about her by various players on the goop site, and then back-tracking. She's up there with Ben Goldacre in terms of profoundly informed, yet still humorous, debunking capabilities.