The wellness creep
’s The Cut published a story about hormonal birth control. Like other pieces in the expanding universe of pseudo-confessional health reporting, it’s a story about a woman who also happens to be a writer having doubts about what the medical establishment has told her.
The story isn’t so much about a health issue as the culture surrounding it, and the reporter, who is sincere if less skeptical than I’d prefer, does appear to know where women are getting the idea that the core of their being has been compromised by taking The Pill. “Influencers” are invoked twice, though they are mentioned in asides that make note neither of the content of their posts or the money they may be receiving in exchange for their advocacy.
It’s noted that “wellness truthers” and anti-vaxxers are responsible for much of the skepticism surrounding The Pill today, and that social media has a habit of making every complaint feel like a movement. Towards its conclusion it quotes, with caveats, two of the loudest voices in the anti-Pill movement: Holly Griggs-Spall, a writer who believes The Pill is an “
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