The Sleepover Club: Is Lucky Girl Syndrome Real?
The Polyester Podcast
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🗓️ 30 January 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Have you heard of lucky girl syndrome? The craze sweeping social media is bringing back manifestation and positive thinking for a new generation. With lucky girls taking over TikTok, we're asking if demanding what you want from the universe is uplifting or reductive? Can you really get what you want by just believing you deserve it? Or is it just a grossly naive flex that just shows us how little work has been done in terms of understanding privilege in our society? This Episode, Ione and Eden discuss how Millennials and Gen Z's adoption of pseudo spiritualism may be more damaging than it first appears.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Eden. Hi, Ione. And hello to the listeners. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm I'm Iioni and I'm the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester and the author of Poor Little Sick Girls, which is out now, but it's also out and paper soon, so yeah. Woo! I'm Eason and the managing editor of Polyester and the co-host of his podcast. This is The Sleepover Club, a feminist pop culture podcast. |
| 0:21.1 | We pull apart the hashtag discourse in the hope of making some sense of it all. Before we get started, please like, rate, review and subscribe. I only, do we have any reviews? Yeah! So this one is Love You Girls with a little love heart emoji. One of the best podcasts there is, Sunflower Moji. I mean, I do not always agree with everything, but that's the point, right? |
| 0:39.8 | Expanding my views with different opinions. emoji. One of the best podcasts there is, Sunflower Moji. I mean, I do not always agree with |
| 0:38.3 | everything, but that's the point, right? Expanding my views with different opinions. Love Heart come |
| 0:42.3 | through. That is by Una Ragazadi, 28, Annie, in Italy. So I probably said that really wrong. |
| 0:49.3 | I'm sorry. I love Italy. I love you. I love Italians. I love everyone. |
| 0:55.7 | So, yes, please leave a so cute. I like that. |
| 0:58.8 | Yeah. This is the point of it like, you know, we're not supposed to agree with everything |
| 1:03.0 | that everyone says. Yeah, I think I'll be worried if we're unagreed with everything. We don't |
| 1:07.4 | even agree with each other all the time. No. |
| 1:13.0 | I think we'll agree today though. |
| 1:19.4 | Yeah, I think we will agree today. So today, we are debunking Lucky Girl Syndrome. |
| 1:24.5 | If you haven't heard of Lucky Girl Syndrome, it's like the new hot TikTok trend. |
| 1:31.1 | Eden, would you like to describe Lucky Girl Syndrome to us? So Lucky Girl Syndrome is the belief that affirmative mantras and a positive mindset will bend everyday events in your favour. So basically |
| 1:37.0 | manifesting your own look by just believing that you will be lucky and thinking that good |
| 1:42.9 | things are going to happen to you. Right. So it's like |
| 1:45.4 | this is an article on Harper's Bazaar, what is Lucky Girl Syndrome and does it actually work? Lucky |
| 1:49.0 | Girl Syndrome is the latest trend doing the rounds online with the concept being that if you |
| 1:52.1 | repeatedly tell the universe how fortunate you are, you will be rewarded with that promotion, proposal |
| 1:57.5 | or pay rise depending on what you're wishing for. So it's basically manifestation. |
| 2:02.5 | Basically repackaged. So like all the TikTok girls are like be delusional like, you know, |
| 2:08.2 | manifest your dreams, be a lucky girl, like but also a lot of girl. It's not just that. The angle is |
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