As a content warning, there are mentions of both sex and mental health throughout this episode. Get the Wealth Planner. Is it Feminist to Get Rich? Vice 's report on the Psychology Behind Sugar Daddies. The Fiscal Feminist by Kim Davis. A few months ago I published a blog post on money with katie. As an inhabitant of the center of the Venn diagram between content for women and content about money, it represented my grappling with a branding direction that I see a lot, the idea that it's radical, progressive, and fights the patriarchy for a woman to accumulate a lot of personal wealth.
But where I landed in that exploration is that this accounting of the world and women's rights is ultimately a little too convenient, and we'll link the post in the show notes if you are interested in reading it. One corollary to the arguments presented, though, sent me poking another bedazzled bear.
When a culture believes that accumulating wealth is intrinsically empowering, then that means anything one has to do to get that money is automatically grandfathered in, and by the transit of property, empowering as well. So I was in the midst of that personal exploration and reflection when I received an email from a listener about what she called the sugar baby mentality, or living your life located somewhere on the conscious versus unconscious and explicitly transactional versus implicitly transactional spectrums, as though you're waiting to be saved by what she dubbed an already successful person.
Can you guess where this episode is going? Welcome back to the Money with Katie Show, rich sugar girls and boys. I'm your host, Katie Gatti Tassin, and in perhaps the most not safe for work episode we have ever done, today we'll be talking about the resurgence of sugar dating culture and its recent unofficial rebrand as a girl-bossy way to cash in.
We will be joined by Tiffany Sweeney, an award-winning investigative journalist with the BBC who produced the documentary, The Secrets of Sugar Baby Dating, and we'll link to that in the show notes for you. But as a heads up, we do cover some pretty touchy topics, so I'm going to give the content warning upfront on the topics of sex and mental health.
