Claire argues we’re allowed to speculate about the facets of J.Lo’s life that she put in the public sphere, but off-screen issues—her health, her children, the parts of her life that she hasn’t commercialised—don’t belong in the conversation.Of course, not everyone views celebrity discourse as serious work. Pop culture analysis is often dismissed as frivolous—but to Claire and Ashley, that’s mostly irrelevant. Their audience is 94% women; that’s who pays their bills.As Ashley puts it, "What a man thinks has literally nothing to do with me. If he doesn't take it seriously, what’s he going to do? Sit there and tell me I don’t have a very successful podcast?"
Claire argues we’re allowed to speculate about the facets of J.Lo’s life that she put in the public sphere, but off-screen issues—her health, her children, the parts of her life that she hasn’t commercialised—don’t belong in the conversation.
Of course, not everyone views celebrity discourse as serious work. Pop culture analysis is often dismissed as frivolous—but to Claire and Ashley, that’s mostly irrelevant. Their audience is 94% women; that’s who pays their bills.
As Ashley puts it, “What a man thinks has literally nothing to do with me. If he doesn’t take it seriously, what’s he going to do? Sit there and tell me I don’t have a very successful podcast?”
