Jameela Jamil is right – the Kardashians are double agents for the patriarchy | Frances Ryan

Blaming other women for misogyny has always felt uncomfortable, but we must confront sexism in whatever form it takes

I found myself clapping wildly at the weekend at the actor Jameela Jamil’s interview with Krishnan Guru-Murthy. The whole thing is worth watching, but the part that has gone viral is when she calls the Kardashians “double agents”: women who get other women to trust them, only to sell us ideals (and products) that damage us. “It’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing,” she says. “Just because you look like a woman, we trust you and think you’re on our side but … you’re selling us self-consciousness.”

This is not exactly an unfounded accusation; Kim Kardashian-West, for one, promotes an appetite-suppressant lollipop to her 111 million Instagram followers.

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