The Monetize Our Painned Edition.

Welcome to the Waves for Thursday, June 6, the Monetize Our Pain Edition.

I'm Marsha Chatelan, a history professor at George Chate. the Monetize Our Pain Edition.

I'm Marsha Chatelan, a history professor at Georgetown University.

And I'm Nicole Perkins, writer and co-host of Thirst Aid Kit.

And I'm Kristen Meinzer, writer and co-host of By the Book.

This week on the podcast we'll be talking about mentrification,

Femtech, and the Netflix romcom always be my maybe.

And in our Slate Plus segment, we'll'll be asking is it sexist to call men

creators and women influencers and here's a sneak peek of what we talked about and I have to say

that parallel to the self-help universe is the influencer universe, and in the

Venn diagram they frequently overlap with each other, but in the self-help universe, women authors usually just own the name self-help

author men call themselves productivity authors business authors they call

themselves anything other than self-help, which I think is interesting.

Oke-Dokes.

So first up, mentrification.

Nicole, why don't you tell us what this word means

and where we see it happening.

Mitrification is a play on the word gentrification,

which is what happens when people of a certain demographic move

into a neighborhood and push out the original people in the

neighborhood to quote-unquote improve it to take advantage of the groundwork

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