Peter Thiel's Investment Firm Is Backing a Menstrual Cycle-Focused 'Femtech' Company

[Nevilledog]

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Peter Thiel is backing a "femtech"/wellness firm that is against birth control pills and women "working out like men," and is harvesting period-related data:

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Peter Thiel’s Investment Firm Is Backing a Menstrual Cycle-Focused ‘Femtech’ Company
Evie Magazine is COVID-skeptical, transphobic, and obsessed with traditional womanhood. Now, with Thiel Capital’s help, they’re launching a “wellness” company based on menstrual cycles.
8:04 AM · Sep 6, 2022

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4axnab/peter-thiels-investment-firm-is-backing-a-menstrual-cycle-focused-femtech-company

On September 1st, Evie Magazine—which strives to be the conservative answer to Cosmo, and which promotes COVID denialism and vaccine misinformation, soft-focus transphobia, and a weird obsession with organ meats—announced a new venture: 28, a “femtech” company offering workouts and nutritional tips based on users’ menstrual cycles, and which requires those users to enter information about the first day of their last period. The week prior, TechCrunch announced the new venture’s biggest funder: the investment firm Thiel Capital, which led the latest $3.2 million funding round, and whose founder Peter Thiel has a variety of other interests. (Those include, of late, funding the MAGA movement to the tune of tens of millions of dollars.)

In the past, of course, Thiel has personally expressed some attention-grabbing thoughts about both women and health technology. In a 2009 essay, he famously expressed the opinion that giving women the right to vote made the country less libertarian and thus worse. And as Inc. magazine reported in 2016, Thiel reportedly expressed an interest in having young people’s blood transfused into his own body as a potential fountain of youth; a year later, people connected with Thiel Capital began making the rounds to deny that story, not very convincingly. (Disclosure: Thiel also funded a lawsuit against Gawker Media, the company where I used to work, that successfully bankrupted the company.)

That—and Thiel’s traditional interest in panopticon technology—makes Thiel Capital a curiously appropriate choice to partner with Evie Magazine and its founder, Brittany Hugoboom, a model and TikTok influencer turned conservative media entrepreneur. (Hugoboom uses her married name, Martinez, as an Evie byline and a Twitter handle, and her maiden name on TikTok.) In an announcement on Evie, Hugoboom called 28 a natural extension of Evie’s mission, writing that the magazine has already “raised awareness around the negative impact of hormonal birth control on our bodies, and helped women find healthier and more natural alternatives in a time when the subject is considered ‘off-limits’ by women’s media.” She linked to two of the many articles Evie has written on the purported dangers of hormonal birth control and touting so-called “natural family planning.”

“Now that we've introduced you to what we're calling ‘feminine fitness’ – the philosophy that you should be exercising and eating according to your cycle,” Hugoboom added, “we’re incredibly excited and proud to reveal the launch of our brand, 28 by Evie.”

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[Initech]

1. This is super fucking creepy on multiple levels.

[highplainsdem]

12. +1,000,000

[Diamond_Dog]

16. Creepy and sick to the nth degree!

[Initech]

27. This is some seriously Nazi levels of human experimentation.

[Faux pas]

2. ...

[EYESORE 9001]

3. Fraught with woo

Here’s hoping women pay no mind to these fools.

[Hortensis]

21. Creepy woo.

[Torchlight]

4. Creepiest guy I've read about today.

But the day is young, and creepy guys are legion. I'm guessing Thiel will be out-creeped by 3:00pm this afternoon.

[Trueblue1968]

20. send him to top of mt everest.

maybe a yeti would eat him

[enough]

5. Mansplaning at scale.

[hatrack]

7. And Manspreading his authoritarian bullshit . . . No, this isn't creepy at all.

Also, the blood transfusion from young people thing doesn't have an Elizabeth Bathory vibe at all, nosiree, move along, nothing to see here!!!

[FalloutShelter]

6. Starting a company to collect menstrual data to sell to incells so they can

dime out women who may or not be pregnant for thousands in bounty money? Looking at you Texas.
Does this about sum it up?



GOTV

[roamer65]

8. Thiel is a fascist scumbag.

Always has been, always will be.

[Gaugamela]

9. Billionaire Delusion Syndrome (BDS) should be in the DSM-5.

SIGNS SOMEONE MIGHT HAVE
BILLIONAIRE DELUSION SYNDROME:

* builds a vanity space program
* displays a paternalistic attitude toward women
* exhibits an unrealistic faith in technology
* prioritizes a hypothetical utopian future over the needs of the present
* engages in exorbitant self-justification
* has a grandiose need to control the world
* believes that money equals virtue & wisdom
* believes that s/he earned every penny through sheer talent and hard work
* believes that s/he is a prototype of a new trans human being that will soon colonize the galaxy, the universe, the metaverse, the afterlife, and beyond

[Duppers]

24. Great list!

Stealing.

Thank you!

[JHB]

10. Next up: Companies that buy the harvested data and sell it to Texas-style vigilantes

...so they can collect their state-mandated bounties.

[Me.]

11. Boy, A Lot Of Hatred For Women Going On There

as far as the data, isn't that illegal? How are they acquiring the private info?

[Initech]

13. $10 says that Peter Thiel is a Jordan Peterson fan...

[Me.]

15. Rule #11

“11 Do not bother children while they are skateboarding

This is the rule that’s the real catnip for right-wingers everywhere. Want to know why the world is falling apart? It’s because liberals are turning boys into girlies with their namby-pamby ways. Let boys do boy things and girls do girl things. Nowhere in the Bible does God say anything about this trans nonsense. There’s nothing wrong with men having all the best jobs and women staying home to look after the kids. So back off, ladies, and give us men a break.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/28/12-rules-for-life-an-antidote-to-chaos-by-jordan-b-peterson-digested-read

[Lovie777]

14. This is the GQP..........

[Diamond_Dog]

17. Thiel is the guy propping up Vance in the Ohio senate race

Vance, who said women should stay in abusive relationships

Couple of woman haters much?

[Nevilledog]

18. And Masters in AZ.

[Vogon_Glory]

19. This app worries me. It can be abused

I can already see anti-abortion vigilantes and law-enforcement and prosecutors using this app to track and punish women seeking or having had abortions.

[Nevilledog]

23. That's the whole basis for it IMHO

[Dorian Gray]

22. Thiel

famously transfused the blood of younger people into himself and then Qanon went all in on Democrats drinking the blood of youth/frazzledripping.

OF course he's funding this bullshit "divine feminine" magazine.

[DFW]

25. For a gay guy, he seems cuiously obsessed with harassing women on feminist issues.

I'd ask what his problem is, but he seems to have a new answer for that every time he opens his mouth.

Maybe Mom always liked his brother best?

[niyad]

26. Disgusted KNR.

[lindysalsagal]

28. The more you read about this nutjob the scarier he gets.

They really think they own all the uteruses.

[Duppers]

29. Peter Thiel always is, always has been a total and

Utter piece of SHIT❗