It’s 2022 and I’m obsessed with scammers. I’ve been obsessed with scammers since Caroline Calloway popped up on my Instagram and I became obsessed with her rose-tinted, romanticized Cambridge University life. Now, my obsession with scammers has moved on and I’ve admittedly spent the last few months binging shows like Inventing Anna, Tinder Swindler and The Dropout. And what I’ve noticed, as a connoisseur of scammers, is conwomen like Anna Delvey and Elizabeth Holmes face a massive, sexist double standard men don’t face.
I feel a sense of, dare I say, adoration of how these women managed to convince people they knew what they were doing. But when I look closely, I notice how much these, albeit white, cis, women, had to co-op masculinity into their “brand” in order for their business to be taken seriously.
