• modus@lemmy.world
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    Wtf is a girlboss? Sounds incredibly sexist and condescending. She just better wear something cute and not bump her head on that glass ceiling.

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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      2014-2018 it was used unironically to connotate women creating spaces for themselves in business - from a popular, well-meaning book of the same name

      2019 onwards it has been used sarcastically to reference performative, ineffectual feminism.

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      You’d think she could at least use the term ‘woman’ to avoid coming across as a specialized dominatrix for people with an unfortunate brat fetish.