Lake Bell wants us to Elizabeth Holmes (verb)

acquaintance of the pod episode 3

“Lake Bell wants us to Elizabeth Holmes” - on today’s episode I go through a number of very female topics.

Fairly recently I found out that the sister of an up-and-coming Twitter comedian I followed is actually a very popular ASMRtist???

Dana & Eve Donnelly are both really freaking good at the Internet.

I’m deeply impressed by both of them.

yes, my sister is prettier than me, but please do not forget that i am also pretty. pic.twitter.com/zqXwJstc1q

— Dana Donnelly (@danadonly) July 30, 2019

my sister turns 18 on January 2, 2020. my enemy turns 30 on January 2, 2032. pic.twitter.com/Yw6twcJyoQ

— Dana Donnelly (@danadonly) August 3, 2019

If you followed me from my sister, don’t expect bits like “blah blah my ex” and “blah blah no one will ever love me” ok I’m not PSYCHO! pic.twitter.com/VZ8mzJQrfe

— Eve (@evefingdonnelly) November 10, 2019

I actually didn't end up discussing the concept of believing that your sibling is more attractive than you are and that's honestly probably for the best.

Eve has that Trendy Gen Z/Young Millennial vocal trend I noticed and I hope a linguist is keeping track of. She sounds exactly like Tavi Gevinson and Yara Shahidi. All three of them, I WISh I could look at them and think "great gowns, gorgeous gowns" but alas, they are legitimately intelligent and talented and I have to unthink my mindset of competition and scarcity.

On this episode, I try my hand at the voice as well.

I also complain about not getting enough likes on my FB profile picture even though I hate Facebook. And about Instagram. Basically, if there are metrics, I am constantly going to be mad at not meeting goals. Go like my stuff if you want to validate me. Get me to 100!!!!

Also I got SO distracted that I forgot to repeat the point made below.

instagram is taking like counts away so that brands and companies stop paying people directly for their audiences and instead buy ads on Instagram itself. everything they do is to drive ad revenue. they are Facebook, after all.

— hollis fka wongweezy (@holliswongwear) November 9, 2019

That voice got me thinking of a different kind of vocal trend, one that young women are very much penalized for. I've noticed that attractive brown-haired women comedy writers (@ tina fey @ lake bell) really HATE IT. (I can point out the brown-haired thing because I have brown hair, too!!! I'm a nerd just like you omg wow)

But LISTEN LAKE BELL, NOT EVERYONE CAN CODE SWITCH LIKE YOU!!! Are you saying that if you sound like a "sexy baby," your natural course of action should be to internalize the guilt of being more easily-objecified and then Elizabeth Holmes your voice away??? C'mon. That's some white feminist BS. Everyone should just care more about what people have to say, PERIOD.

And I also suspect that it can't be extricated from perceptions coming from an internalized male gaze and wanting a more "level" sexual economy.