Gossip is good for your health and society: ‘Normal gossip’ podcaster

If you read it, it is likely that they are almost 100 percent you like about gossip – about celebrities, and maybe also about your neighbors, friends and co -workers and their neighbors, friends and collaborators. But do you feel bad about it? Reject this guilt and shame because fun has benefits for your health and can affect lasting positive social changes, urgently urgently Kelsey McKinneythe creator and former host of the popular podcast “Normal Gossip” and the author of the new book essays, You heard it from me: (mostly) real notes about the art of gossip.

“We are at the moment when the gossip may be less malignant than it was five years ago,” McKinney said Us every week exclusively in a new interview. “People are very open about the loving gossip.” More than ever, people come to me in person and are like, “Have you heard this thing?” And so I think a little more positive swing is happening. This means that it is so deep in our culture that the gossip is dear, that I think it is really difficult to overcome. ”

As McKinney writes You didn’t hear that from meGossip has long been defamated, often sexistically, as a deadly sin (as he learns in his children’s church), as a superficial, anti-intellectual, toxic and bad mojo. But the act of release can be absolutely healthy.

“We physically know that the gossip will reduce your heart rate that seems to be contrainuitive – as everyone has worked out and enthusiastic as in the bar,” she explained. “Scientists don’t know exactly why, but they think it’s because you feel more comfortable.”

Which will be the social benefit of the mixing of your favorite CW or passive aggressive officer. “Gossip, culturally, is a sign of trust,” McKinney said. “You don’t wash with someone you hate.” At all.”

And the moment of the Trust circle can also strengthen our cognitive and analytical skills. “Gossip is how we give a sense of the world,” McKinney explained. “It is not just that we are talking about our friend or our associate, but we use data that we can collect from all these small places from all these small gossip to see how to behave.”

While Podcast “Normal Gossip” focuses on the foibles of anonymous infamous people-think about the delicious drama in the elite salon for care “I love gossip!” I am the first to say that I cannot judge anyone for it. I read you, people. I read the Daily Mail. I read people. I read everything from blind items to older magazines and then I also listen to who every week. ”

Texas a native is a lifelong dedicated Britney Spears and Taylor swift (“I saw her on her second tour!) And the angry TV observer whose absolutely popular entry into the genre is Traitors – A show where, as he emphasizes, gossip controls events and is how the contestants survive (or are manipulated).

“Like someone who consumes competing programs and unscathed reality, I feel like I’m working as a translator right now,” McKinney said, “where I have to explain to my friends who watch Real women in the household that Boston rob was really hot and everyone loved him and he was American darling 20 years ago, before all that, and then I have to explain Survivor people of dynamics Selling sunset, Which is just a little crazy. ”

Back in the real world, with much more serious bets, as McKinney writes, is another form of Whisper Gossip – in which information is shared privately to potentially reveal corrupt individuals or power systems. In recent years, we have seen Whisper Networks take off powerful celebrities and other characters in the #MeToo movement and beyond. “We’re talking about two things here,” McKinney said. “The first is a network of whispering that exists among people who do not have the power to speak together and warn of someone who is dangerous.” This is all from women in the bar and says, “Don’t talk to the guy to the lowest level of employees who talk about which bosses are bad and who are not.”

“When we talk about the #MeToo movement,” she continued, “what is so interesting is that it is that it is promotion Saving nets. So it takes what has already been quite open secrets and makes public knowledge. So when we think about the biggest cases that came out of the #MeToo movement, Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein, In these cases I read blind objects for years. People knew that this information was out there. People have talked about it for decades. ”

The author is not entirely optimistic that all Whisper Network campaigns will be revolutionary. “I am interested in seeing how much it continues in the future because of the fall,” McKinney said. “We haven’t seen a ton of real justice will be delivered.” But Whisper Networks have always existed there, and they will continue to be there, because we keep each other safe, even if you don’t publish them in the New York Times. ”

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