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TIL that Gwyneth Paltrow is not just a harmless grifter (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I never went as far as to defend Gwyneth Paltrow, but after her Hot Ones appearance I created a post (which I will link in the comments) where I suggested that she's done no more harm than male grifters and that the dislike of her as a person was primarily due to misogyny. That's before I learned about her promotion of these unproven "vampire facials". Now an unlicensed clinic performing this procedure has given at least three women HIV. You guys were right and I was wrong.

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[–] morphballganon 5 points 8 months ago

All grift is harmful. The very nature of grifting is to acquire something of value from someone who wouldn't choose to give it to you in a fair, informed setting.