Gwyneth Paltrow is better known for her ridiculous Goop empire these days than she is as a surprisingly good actress. Being the enterprising businesswoman that she is, Gwynny has decided to sort of combine those two things and the result is a batsh*t crazy reality series on Netflix called The Goop Lab.
It’s been a hilarious ride taking Gwyneth Paltrow to task for all of the ridiculous things she’s said and done in the name of Goop and “wellness” of one’s self, but this Netflix show is taking the joke one step too far and deep into dangerous territory.
In case we’ve forgotten, Gwynny and Goop have found themselves in hot water over the last few years for plugging unsubstantiated claims and products that were harmful and/or had no scientific basis.
This list includes but is not limited to: vaginal steaming (not a thing, don’t do it), jade eggs for your vagina (again, this is not a thing, don’t do it) and walking around barefoot to cure depression (see the previous bracket).
Now this sort of nonsensical stuff is tolerable – and even quite funny – when it was confined to Gwynny’s website and social media. But when you’ve got Netflix’s resources and a percentage of the streaming giant’s estimated 158 million subscribers available for you to plug your Goop crap, it all suddenly stops becoming funny and immediately becomes dangerous.
By giving Gwynny a platform to plug all her scientifically dubious claims to a potentially huge audience, we’re doing nothing more than enabling her to keep pushing nonsensical rubbish. Like a recovering drug addict or an alcoholic, we should be weaning her off this Goop crap instead of paying her to continue pushing it.
Gwyneth Paltrow may be good at things like acting and being a great ex-girlfriend, but she certainly should not be given a Netflix show to spruik her dangerous nonsense because that’s a one way street to a sharp spike in vaginal steaming and jade egg-related health problems.
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