Gwyneth Paltrows Goop posted a defense of its jade eggs for vaginas. Its a mess.

[demmiblue]

Source: Vox

Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop, a lifestyle company dedicated to helping people find health “solutions,” has become an easy target for medical bloggers and journalists who relish a good takedown.

The pile-on keeps happening because Goop keeps making claims that beg for debunking: from bogus “energy healing” stickers purported to be made from the same material as spacesuits (they’re not) to the claim that negative emotions can spoil your drinking water (nope) to the never-ending obsession with “detoxing” the body (which if you’re not a heroin addict you don’t need). (At Vox, we’ve written about many of these.)

On Thursday, the team at Goop posted what it says is the first of many articles confronting its critics. It mostly focuses on Dr. Jen Gunter, an OB-GYN and blogger who’s become one of the most prominent voices in the Goop wars. (Gunter’s personal website has a dozen-plus posts just from this year making the case against Goop claims.)

When they go low, we go high. https://t.co/PBRaFYMaG6 (via @goop)
— Gwyneth Paltrow (@GwynethPaltrow) July 13, 2017

Rather than offering a clear and coherent defense of alternative medicine, Goop’s statement is filled with ad hominem attacks and baldfaced hypocrisy. But it’s Goop’s central defense of its editorial decision-making that reeks most of “Goopshit.”

Read more: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/7/13/15967326/goop-gwyneth-paltrow-jade-vagina-egg-defense?utm_campaign=vox.social&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=1500065687


(and double for invoking Michelle Obama's words)

[PoliticAverse]

1. "jade eggs for vaginas" - apparently there are now 3 types of mammals that lay eggs. n/t

[Orrex]

2. I thought "Jade Egg" was her kid's name?

[Orrex]

3. Holy shit--did you see the price?

Two "eggs" and a cheap sack for $55.66.

There's a rock shop near here that sells these for about four dollars each. What a fucking racket!

[Nitram]

4. Yeah, but they aren't very smooth. Hurts to insert them...

[Orrex]

9. They aren't supposed to go in your nose, you silly!

[demmiblue]

5. $55-$66... one egg per bag (not going to even go there).

Also, your negativity and criticism of the Goop is making my water do a war dance. My dog is scared.

[Lochloosa]

6. The "cheap sack" just begs for a joke.

[Orrex]

7. Why, that never would have occurred to me.

Honest!

[cwydro]

8. What are these eggs for?

I'm way out almost off the grid and my phone won't load the link.

[marylandblue]

12. Vaginal health and feminine energy

[cwydro]

15. Umm.

Never used them lol. My energy is just fine.

[MineralMan]

10. How much are they selling those for!?!?

You can order stone eggs made of every sort of stone, including jade for about $6 each. They make the things in China, and eBay is full of people selling them, as are numbers of wholesalers serving the rockshop and metaphysical shop industry.

They're made by machine, are highly polished, and they're cheap as sin.

Some folks collect them. Some folks buy one and put it on a shelf. And now, I find, some people put them in private places in their own bodies. Uff da!

Like all of the crystal and mineral metaphysical hype, they're just rocks. They don't have any sort of miraculous "healing" powers, or any such thing.

Apparently, though, they have enormous profit-making potential if you can convince people that inserting them in their private parts will do something amazing for them.

Hilarious.

[Nitram]

16. And they temporarily cure diarrhea when inserted into the anus!

[TheBlackAdder]

11. They look like those eggs you buy at gift shops and rock conventions for $1.50 each.

[spiderpig]

13. Well, her acting career went south, so...

I thought she was fresh and lovely in Seven, before she became insufferable.

Plus, I still can't get over Saving Private Ryan losing BP to Shakespeare in Love. But we know that stuff is all a sham anyway.

Ugh - turning my attention to something important - the Red Sox game.

[Solly Mack]

14. Jade Yoni eggs because plain old Ben wa balls are just so plebeian.

And we can charge more if we call them Jade Yoni Eggs.


From the original article..


"The strictly guarded secret of Chinese royalty in antiquity—queens and concubines used them to stay in shape for emperors..."

Yeah. That's all about empowering women and their sexuality. Doing it all for the man.


You, too, can feel like the concubine of an emperor! You're important because your man is important! Isn't he worth it?


ROFLMAO

Feeling not-so-fresh? No perk in your step? Is your Yoni depressed?

Allow your Yoni to express itself with Jade eggs!

Coming soon - Diamond encrusted Jade Yoni Eggs - Hey! We are all carbon - so it's all natural!