Some of this isn't bad advice, like, get in shape and learn to make small talk is solid. Even "work hard and imagine yourself as an agent in your own life" can be good advice before the capitalist ideology.
But the ideology's always there, so there's always a lot of shit to clean off.
That's how these grifters operate. They offer people "self-confidence and self-help advice" but they hide a nasty little chunk of misogyny in the middle of it.
Some of this isn't bad advice, like, get in shape and learn to make small talk is solid. Even "work hard and imagine yourself as an agent in your own life" can be good advice before the capitalist ideology.
But the ideology's always there, so there's always a lot of shit to clean off.
That's how these grifters operate. They offer people "self-confidence and self-help advice" but they hide a nasty little chunk of misogyny in the middle of it.