The madness of the ‘femosphere’

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'But I mean that question seriously. Can a pop song cause mental illness? In recent weeks, I’ve become convinced that one song in particular, a song called “Labour” by Paris Paloma, is having a detrimental effect on the sanity of young women across the Western world, especially in America.

In August, the song was the soundtrack to a hundred-thousand TikTok and Instagram reels about the Lindsay Clancy case, each one vying with all the others to make the most lurid and sensational claims about the victimization of women, the unfairness of modern society and the “obvious” guilt of a man whose wife freely admitted she killed her three children with a set of exercise bands while he was out running errands. Now there’s the Cornell Seven case – a campus orgy gone wrong – and again “Labour” is the mood music. The song has become the anthem of generalized female discontent, whatever its object.
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If the song isn’t actively scrambling women’s minds, at the very least it’s stirring them a little bit faster. A few months ago, Britain’s New Statesman introduced us to the nation’s “angry young women,” who are livid about everything from Israel to endometriosis, and derive their only pleasure from displeasure, struggle and the hatred they feel for men and carbon emissions. “Impossibly bleak,” is how the New Statesman describes it.
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In the last seventy years, women have entered the workplace like never before, coming to outnumber men in a great many professions, but they’ve also been encouraged to see every aspect of their intimate lives as a form of “labor” too. Far from breaking out of the exploitative logic of capitalism – time is money – women have embraced it completely and made it part of their very being. Now, in the name of liberation, they subject their time, energy and emotions to a brutal market-oriented calculus that leaves them feeling short-changed in pretty much all that they do.'