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"her personality is literally the girlboss striver stereotype to a T. collects internships like stamps, reposts and unironically believes in self help drivel like garyvee, wants to do an MBA, decorates the apartment with unironic 'rise and grind' posters in that ugly cursive font, and has a standing "
"The only women who use this phrase are millenial ML "girlbosses" or Gen Z tiktok coquette girls. Both that seethe at the sight of a woman doing better than her."
"This is a point lost on so many of my girlfriends these days. Being a striver girlboss, having a master's degree in communications, or being a "dog mom" is not attractive!"
"Yeah, it is 'Spooky Season'. We're probably all about to be laid off."
"It's gotten to the point where girls I know from high school, who would have been part of the first, unironic wave of the word's usage, are using it ironically (?) These are the type of people who started fake startups to get into harvard - pantsuit-wearing, #imstillwithher, cold-blooded girlbosses,"
"to me, a girlboss is (charitably) someone who has focused on their career and liberated themselves from the economic nessecity previously opressing women, which is why it was such a big part of second wave feminism to go beyond women being secretaries."
"it's phenomenal, an absolutely brutal exploration of the whole "girlboss" aesthetic and the all-around hollowness of woke capitalism as a culture."
"you can't be a #girlboss if you've never pegged someone but lucky for all you ladies this male feminist ally is here to help 😜"