Inside the Little Plastic Castle

Huh, I almost feel like you read a different article than me. I didn't see this as parodying women at all, but rather, parodying corporate attempts to make money off of pride by selling bullshit rainbow products. Like the pride version of breast cancer pinkification. It feels like the joke is that a pride fanny pack exists at all, not that frivolous women are buying pride fanny packs instead of donating to bail funds. (I'd also assume that these products are more targeted at gay man, but that might be irrelevant.)

Their next article about cute summer purses to open up and donate to a mutual aid fun has more of that 'poking at women' vibe, though. If comedy outlets are making fun of white women, I think there can be a lot of reasons. I do think there's a stronger sense that women, as also-marginalized, are supposed to be more "woke". Or at least that feminist women are. I think progressive women get identified with feminism in a way that progressive men are....... barely even a mental category for me? (Oh! Bernie bros! Bernie bros should be RIPE for comedy.) There's also a history dating back to the 1800s of racial equality being a "white women's cause" (it was a political cause that was nonetheless considered ladylike for women to get directly and personally involved in) with roots in, generally, expecting women to be "better" and more caring than men. I wonder if any of that is still lurking around our baseline cultural expectations.