AI has a boob problem (and it's not what you think)
Plus: 🩺 TikTok doc 🥰 Aimee Lou Wood 🧠 facts about MS
Welcome back to Take The Lead, the fortnightly newsletter from The Female Lead.
Here’s your roundup of our most-read and most-subscribed-to articles of the last month.
Femtech brand Elvie joined a viral AI trend expecting a little fun - and instead got a big fat reminder of how tech still flinches at the realities of womanhood. Apparently, some things are just too edgy for the algorithm. Scroll down to read more.
Also in this issue: Aimee Lou Wood gives the debrief on why she reacted the way she did to that cringey SNL sketch, and did you know that MS has different implications for women?
And finally: no diagnosis, no answers - just months of exhaustion and strange symptoms that no one could explain, until a TikTok scroll turned into a medical revelation. Read Cleo’s unbelievable story.
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AI has a boob problem (and it’s not what you think)
Femtech pioneers Elvie decided to join the recent ChatGPT “make me a doll” trend.
Aimee Lou Wood: I criticised SNL sketch to not ‘spiral inwardly’
British actress Aimee Lou Wood has said she criticised a Saturday Night Live sketch about her so she would not “spiral inwardly” as she did not rule out appearing on …
The 'morning shed' is just today’s version of a distorted age-old pressure
By Louise N Hanson, PhD in Social and Developmental psychology, Durham University
BBC’s Naga Munchetty: Women are gaslit about their health. I'm among them.
By Naga Munchetty, BBC presenter and journalist
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