It's so completely bonkers, it falls into the Q Anon category of crazy. She’s brilliant, creative, warm, and just amazing. In fact, it turns out I was Queen Bee’d by a close friend of mine who I so totally love and respect. There were issues of race and class that entered in, and I had always associated the Queen Bee phenomenon with more of The Primates of Park Avenue set, but it turns out that I'm completely wrong on this. A writer I ADORE, Claire Zulkey, who runs an incredible Substack for moms called Evil Witches recently posted an enlightening thread about how moms do this to each other. I generally feel like a foreigner all the time just because I'm me and weird (happy World Autism Acceptance Day, by the way). Have you ever been Queen Bee’d-say in high school? Or maybe as a mother? Have you ever been made to feel like the odd mom out? Gwyneth's the total Queen Bee if there ever was one. I've been thinking a lot about high camp but also about Queen Bees this week. but without your whole head being ripped off. to be discovered, neck askew, at the bottom of the stairs in pair of ludicrously capacious linen trousers (to borrow a meme)-just something so Isadora Duncan about it. But it would be such a glamorous death to go by way of a pair of THE ROW pants. I’ve got to stop wearing them, but they just look so great and they're so comfy (when I'm not dying in them). I nearly almost always bite the dust, but then I catch myself on the railing and think, Man, these are dangerous fat pants. I've almost killed myself in them at least five times because my toe always catches in the hem as I'm rushing down the stairs. I totally used to be during COVID-I mean, I think we all were for a time there, but now I'm so skinny from stress and schlepping up San Francisco hills, they're completely life-threatening. I call them my “dangerous fat pants”-not because I'm fat. I too own a pair of wide-legged pants like Gwyneth’s. Not even Ryan Murphy could pen such a scene.Īnd the clothes-it was her best role since Margot Tenenbaum. But don’t you just love it when people lean so wicked hard into every audacious stereotype that defines them?Īs a girl who comes from a long line of petty women, I absolutely howled when she leaned over to that poor optometrist and said, “I wish you well,” because even Liberace would have blushed at that vertiginous level of high camp. There are interns for that kind of product testing. Although I would give the whole bone broth and ozone bum stuff a miss if I were Goop Queen. And just being GP has to be so continuously amusing, I can’t imagine why she’d want to waste one single moment being anyone else.
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