In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election,

entrepreneur Audrey Gelman seemed poised to lead a revolution.

Her glossy co-working enclave, The Wing, was supposed to be a model for

feminist social clubs built on activism, inclusion, and self-care.

But instead, critics said the wing became a glaring example of toxic culture and workplace discrimination.

On each episode of Wonder's Podcast, The Big Flop, comedians join host Meisha Brown to

chronicle one of the biggest pop culture fails of all time and try to answer the age-old

question, who thought this was a good idea?

Recently the Big Flop looked at the Wing, a feminist social club that launched a few weeks before the 2016 election.

It was supposed to ride a wave of girl power giving women a space to come together,

but it instead evolved into an extremely toxic work environment and one of the biggest flops

of the era. You're about to hear a preview of The Big Flop. While you're listening,

follow the Big Flop on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts. On the fifth floor of a building in Manhattan's trendy Soho district, Audrey Gelman, a former PR

strategist and under 30 Bigwig holds court with like-minded female power

players in her 10,000 square foot clubhouse.

Dubbed The Wing, Audrey's expansive hideaway is a lush gathering space, neatly decorated with brassy surfaces, scholarly

tones arranged by color, and pink couches that are, for a lack of a better adjective,

labial.

It's a feminist utopia.

Women are reading and typing everywhere

and they're sipping drinks, served by nervous but smiling baristas.

If you watch the barista's eyes, you'll see they're all looking right up at the ceiling

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