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Why Gossip Is Good for Your Health and Society: 'Normal Gossip' Podcaster
Don't feel ashamed to gossip — it can positively affect your health and bring about societal change, 'Normal Gossip' podcast host Kelsey McKinney tells Us Weekly
As McKinney writes in You Didn’t Hear This From Me, gossip has long been vilified, often in sexist terms, as a mortal sin (as she was taught in her childhood church), as superficial, anti-intellectual, toxic and bad mojo. Grand Central PublishingBack in the real world, with much more serious stakes, as McKinney writes, another form of gossip is the whisper network — in which information is shared privately to potentially expose corrupt individuals or systems of power. Whether it’s whispering about a coworker’s love life, dissecting an old high school friend’s cryptic Instagram post, or just WhatsApping late into the night about celebrities, gossip is a universal pastime.
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