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Cancel culture has a greater impact on female celebrities compared to male celebrities. Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, and Amanda Bynes have all faced public ridicule and struggle to redeem themselves. The media focuses more on their flaws, like drug addiction, whereas men like Ben Affleck are seen as accomplished stars despite similar issues. Cancel culture has also spread to social media influencers, businesses, and even ordinary people. It only takes one person to announce a cancellation, and then it spreads like wildfire. Monica believes that people on social media could change cancel culture, but currently, it's more about entertainment and not caring about the consequences. Cancel culture gives the public power, and women are more susceptible to being canceled than men. Women have a tougher time recovering their careers after being canceled. However, if the public decides to give women a fair chance, the inequalities can be changed. Hello, and welcome back to another episode of Gossiping About Hollywood, where we talk about all that goes down with your favorite stars. I'm your host Paige, and we bring this podcast to you to inform you about the ins and outs of pop culture, along with the uprisings and downfalls of Hollywood's biggest stars. Have you ever taken a part in canceling a celebrity? If so, was there any good reason? Most of the time, there isn't. And on today's episode, we're going to be talking about cancel culture and its effect on female celebrities. So let's just get right into it. The most famous female victims of cancel culture have had a considerably harder time redeeming themselves and their careers compared to their male counterparts. And when I think of women who have been canceled in Hollywood, the first people that come to mind for me personally is Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, and Amanda Bynes. These three women have gone through a lot in the public spotlight and have been completely ridiculed by the media over and over again. And when it comes to Lindsay Lohan specifically, I think a lot of people just see her as like a drug addict or an alcoholic at this point in her life. Whereas when you think of like men who have also had drug addiction, like Ben Affleck, for example, you don't think of Ben Affleck as just a drug addict. Like you think of him as a Hollywood superstar who has had a lot of accomplishments, and Lindsay Lohan doesn't get that same view. One article that I found that really like supports this argument, I think, is called The Effects of Cancel Culture on Women by Linda Zhu. And she mostly focuses on the disparities between men and women and how they're treated in the media and how they are able to recover from being canceled. An interesting quote that I found from this article says, Amanda Bynes and Lindsay Lohan are prime examples of females who have been canceled, with the public ridiculing them for their struggles with drug addiction and mental health. One thing that really strikes me about this quote is the fact that Lindsay Lohan has obviously been very public about her addiction with drugs and alcohol, but no one seems to give her a break on that. And I think it's super unfair to just completely label her as an alcoholic and like a burnout, even though she's been a part of so many amazing projects. She's a wonderful actress. She's done a lot more than just get hooked onto drugs. I'm a workaholic, a shopaholic, and according to the state of California, an alcoholic, as well as a threat to all security guards if they work in hotels. She simply just hasn't been able to redeem herself in the same way that a lot of men have gotten a chance to, and I think that's the thing that's really unfair about cancel culture, is it kind of picks and chooses who gets redemption and who doesn't. So next I just want to touch on how cancel culture has managed to trickle its way down from A-list celebrities to small influencers on social media, businesses, or corporations, and your typical citizen, and my main point that I want to make here is that anyone has the power to cancel someone else for literally any reason. A one example that I can think of that I've witnessed firsthand is the Iowa class of 2026 Snapchat story, and I have seen more people quote-unquote canceled on this story than I have seen on the rest of social media. It's ridiculous. You post something that someone else disagrees with, and you're canceled, like you're done, and people are going to come after you if they disagree with you, and they will find you on social media, they will find your parents on social media, and they will just completely attack you. And it really just proves the point that all it takes for someone to be canceled is for someone else to announce it, and then it's done, and that's exactly what Jonah Bromwich talks about in his article for the New York Times. He quotes, if you announce that someone is canceled, they're canceled. And I think this is so true because it really doesn't take much for someone to get canceled at this point, and the way cancel culture is progressing in society, all you have to do is think of any sort of semi-legitimate reason that someone should not have a platform and announce it, and then their platform gets taken away. So here's Monica talking about how she thinks the public feeds into cancel culture. I think that people on social media could change cancel culture, but I don't think anyone's going to, at least not anywhere in the near future, because it's not really impacting as much the people who give it its power, because the only people it comes after are the people at the top, and the people that fuel the fire are the people who are on social media and follow it constantly and give it the likes and the retweets and the attention, and they're just looking for a way to distract themselves and a quick form of entertainment, and they don't actually care what happens to the lives of the celebrities, they just are interested in what's the hot take. So I think definitely there could be some kind of change in the future if people really start getting upset with it, but I definitely don't think we're at that point now. I think it's more about entertainment at face value now and not caring about the repercussions. So just adding on to that a little bit, it's really all about where people can get power, and I feel like cancel culture gives the general public a lot more power than they are used to, and they like being able to determine someone's kind of career and path when it comes to social media, and people will literally grab at power wherever they can get it. So speaking of power, I want to talk about how women are much more susceptible to being canceled than men, and it seems like men get a much bigger break in society, and especially when it comes to cancel culture than women do. I think that cancel culture affects women a lot more than men, just because they can't come back as easily, but I also feel like people cancel who's convenient to them. Like for example, Hailey Bieber, everyone was just looking for an excuse to hate Hailey Bieber and ship Justin with Selena, like did she really do anything wrong? I have no clue. And then same with Morgan Wallen, he got canceled for using bad language, but now his music is so popular that people just don't care anymore. Alright, so as we can see through what we have talked about today, women are disproportionately affected by cancel culture and have a much, much harder time sustaining their careers, popularity, and influence after being canceled when compared to men. On the next episode, we're going to get into some of the biggest oopsies from male celebrities in recent history, so we're going to expose the men next time. Overall, I believe that the public has the power to control the way cancel culture works, not that that will happen anywhere in the near future, but I really think if everyone, like we as a people, decide to give women in the spotlight a fair shot, the inequalities that we see between male and female celebrities can be drastically changed. Once again, I'm your host Paige, and thanks for listening to another episode of Gossiping About Hollywood.