‘Everything you’ve been told is a lie!’ Inside the wellness-to-fascism pipeline
www.theguardian.com
One minute you’re doing the downward dog, the next you’re listening to conspiracy theories about Covid or the new world order. How did the desire to look after yourself become so toxic?

This article describes a connection between wellness and self care and the extremist groups that we have seen pop up the last years.

I thought it was interesting to see how missing research for women is causing more people to see the mainstream as ‘wrong’ and looking for alternative truths.

  • @BonesOfTheMoon
    9•1 year ago

    There was a recipe blogger who supported the Canadian trucker convoy, and got cancelled as a result. I also used to work with a woman who is a doTERRA hunbot and has some popular wellness site who also is a Jordan Peterson antivaxxer. The wellness movement is mostly made up of rich white women with little education and the combination is deadly…

    • @[email protected]
      3•1 year ago

      Rich white women of a certain age might have been the ones whose parents chose to not send to college over their brothers. Perhaps this goes for rich women of any colour. My mother’s (now 68 yo) parents sent her brothers to college, not the girls. My mother got a vocational training, contributed to the brothers college funds, and then finally paid for herself through college. My mother’s not white.

      I believe that most people have a certain hunger for information and education, and if college wasn’t an option, they’d look for these educations elsewhere.

      • @BonesOfTheMoon
        2•1 year ago

        I find most of the ones I know personally didn’t bother with higher education because they started having babies right away.

        • @[email protected]
          2•1 year ago

          Which is sad, because the way for women of that milieu to have any standing in society or a disposable income is by marrying. And the way to “seal and secure” the marriage is to have children ASAP.

          I had a part time job when I was in uni. It was a crappy job at a cinema (it was not crappy, it was actually a load of fun, but you know, “crappy”), but I’m a millennial. My mother’s cousin told me she used to want to do part time at a store, just to have her own money (her husband had a flashy job), but hubby told her not to do it, because, “What if our friends visit that store? Where do we put our face?”

          Saving face… pffftt. I believe this is still the sentiment in places like Hongkong, certain classes in India, in Indonesia, etc. Upper class women shouldn’t work or study, lest it makes them look working class.