Paige Lorenze, Misogyny, & the Feminist Question of Influence
Aug 9, 2026 · 17 min · 8 segments
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Aug 9, 2026 · 17 min · 8 segments
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Katie, what do you know about what I would describe as the Nantucket influencer drama that has unfolded over the last week?
Ugh.
Well, I guess some store in Nantucket put up a sign that says, "No influencers," and an influencer named Paige Lorenze, who I'm gonna be honest, every single photo I see of her, she looks like a different person.
[laughs]
So I, to this day, I don't think I would recognize this woman on the street if she was walking toward me.
She posted some- something where she basically just implied that influencers are a group that is discriminated against, and that it is, uh, misogynist to call out influencers specifically as being a group that you maybe don't want in your store.
I was very interested by this conversation almost immediately.
I think it's because I'm watching a conversation take place here that is basically identical to the conversation that I feel like I have been circling around for the last two years-
Hmm
...
in terms of what I think about with the influencer space.
Obviously, most of my focus has been in the tradwife influencer realm, but I saw a lot of really interesting parallels in the conversation that has unfolded this week to the conversations that I was directly a part of two years ago and that I have seen while on book tour and while talking about Yester Year.
So when this discourse came up in the last few weeks, it just seemed like a good opportunity for us to deconstruct an argument that I think we have danced around in a number of episodes but haven't, like, focused on explicitly, and a generalized attitude that I often see in the world of influence and in the conversations we have around the influencer industry.
So the argument that I want us to think about today is this.
It is that the influencer industry is at least partially feminist by nature because of the fact that it is driven by women and because of what it has offered to women, okay?
Hmm.
Okay.
[laughs]
Exactly.
[laughs]
Exactly.
And the part two of this argument that people will make is that if you dismiss this theory of empowerment in any way, you are in some way behaving misogynistically.
Katie, what do you know about what I would describe as the Nantucket influencer drama that has unfolded over the last week?
Ugh.
Well, I guess some store in Nantucket put up a sign that says, "No influencers," and an influencer named Paige Lorenze, who I'm gonna be honest, every single photo I see of her, she looks like a different person.
[laughs]
So I, to this day, I don't think I would recognize this woman on the street if she was walking toward me.
She posted some- something where she basically just implied that influencers are a group that is discriminated against, and that it is, uh, misogynist to call out influencers specifically as being a group that you maybe don't want in your store.
I was very interested by this conversation almost immediately.
I think it's because I'm watching a conversation take place here that is basically identical to the conversation that I feel like I have been circling around for the last two years-
Hmm
...
in terms of what I think about with the influencer space.
Obviously, most of my focus has been in the tradwife influencer realm, but I saw a lot of really interesting parallels in the conversation that has unfolded this week to the conversations that I was directly a part of two years ago and that I have seen while on book tour and while talking about Yester Year.
So when this discourse came up in the last few weeks, it just seemed like a good opportunity for us to deconstruct an argument that I think we have danced around in a number of episodes but haven't, like, focused on explicitly, and a generalized attitude that I often see in the world of influence and in the conversations we have around the influencer industry.
So the argument that I want us to think about today is this.
It is that the influencer industry is at least partially feminist by nature because of the fact that it is driven by women and because of what it has offered to women, okay?
Hmm.
Okay.
[laughs]
Exactly.
[laughs]
Exactly.
And the part two of this argument that people will make is that if you dismiss this theory of empowerment in any way, you are in some way behaving misogynistically.
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