I loved this piece, particularly the line: "But at the end of the day, [Amoruso] just wants women to take risks, fail, screw up, make mistakes, do stupid shit, and own up to it—and not have it define them forever."
Glad to see we've washed our hands of the girlboss and women who acknowledge their failure and work to recover, instead of just news dogging on someone about what went wrong.
I’ve been thinking about the question in the title of your post since yesterday, and I think my answer is “the girlboss” - and the phenomenon not the book - “was the acceptable face of female power.” Loved the profile, btw!
Interesting! I never actually read the book when it was popular so only knew what I had picked up from seeing commentary about it here and there which was mostly anti-feminist or outright anti-woman. Because, you know, social media.
I was a girl boss. Last century, I cut trail as the first woman in the world to do my job. You’ve never heard of me. Anonymity is my last mask. The most disappointing thing about this century, I am 69, is the regression back to tyranny and war on all fronts. We are now in WWIII, a worldwide technological war over who gets to dominate and decide for everyone else.
A young person’s text abbreviation that we should all observe more. IDK
I loved this piece, particularly the line: "But at the end of the day, [Amoruso] just wants women to take risks, fail, screw up, make mistakes, do stupid shit, and own up to it—and not have it define them forever."
Glad to see we've washed our hands of the girlboss and women who acknowledge their failure and work to recover, instead of just news dogging on someone about what went wrong.
I’ve been thinking about the question in the title of your post since yesterday, and I think my answer is “the girlboss” - and the phenomenon not the book - “was the acceptable face of female power.” Loved the profile, btw!
Interesting! I never actually read the book when it was popular so only knew what I had picked up from seeing commentary about it here and there which was mostly anti-feminist or outright anti-woman. Because, you know, social media.
I was a girl boss. Last century, I cut trail as the first woman in the world to do my job. You’ve never heard of me. Anonymity is my last mask. The most disappointing thing about this century, I am 69, is the regression back to tyranny and war on all fronts. We are now in WWIII, a worldwide technological war over who gets to dominate and decide for everyone else.
A young person’s text abbreviation that we should all observe more. IDK