The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand

The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand

The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand: A Definition

By Kelly Diels / October 29, 2016 /

The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand is an archetype women must comply with to get rights and resources AND a marketing strategy leveraging social status.

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the perfect woman, violence against women

“The Perfect Woman” is a form of Violence Against Women

By Kelly Diels / October 13, 2016 /

When we encourage or teach other women (or ourselves) to be The Perfect Woman, we are doing harm. The Perfect Woman is a form of violence against women.

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Ivanka Trump is Calling All White Women

By Kelly Diels / July 22, 2016 /

The Trump campaign is using Ivanka’s “feminism,” and the language and promise of women’s liberation to advance and perpetuate injustice and a racist agenda.

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keep your love and light, we want justice

keep your love and light, we want justice

By Kelly Diels / July 9, 2016 /

When “Love and Light” is proposed by spiritual leaders as an appropriate response to DEATH and discrimination, I name it for what it is: white privilege.

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Business Tip for Culture Makers #626: Reconsider Your Payment Plans because Charging Extra for Payment Plans Can Be Exploitative

By Kelly Diels / June 26, 2016 /

I’m looking around at our empowerment spaces at the payment plans being offered and I’m seeing some arguably predatory practices.

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the link between our buying habits and our vote

By Kelly Diels / June 17, 2016 /

Likability, authority. Marketing designed to automatically trigger particular behaviours has political consequences: we get in the habit of obeying.

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Liking Someone Can Be Terrible Information

By Kelly Diels / May 30, 2016 /

When someone is trying to get us to like them and they have a commercial interest vested in us liking them, you need more information before proceeding.

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on the abuse of reciprocity and women

By Kelly Diels / May 21, 2016 / Comments Off on on the abuse of reciprocity and women

When it comes to reciprocity, a justice lever, some of us activate the need to reciprocate in order to disproportionately advantage ourselves over others.

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On the ‘Mental Triggers’ of Online Marketing, The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand, Assessing Who Deserves Your Money, and Why We Should Be Skeptical of Makeover Stories

By Kelly Diels / May 18, 2016 /

Want to know if someone is trying, by design, to construct an authoritarian dynamic to “mentally trigger” you to buy from them? Look for makeover stories.

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Pursuing Work-Life Balance Preserves the Status Quo

By Kelly Diels / April 21, 2016 /

Women are not failing to lean in and we’re not failing at work-life balance; work and life – which is to say, our society – are failing us.

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