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hHas the girlboss role model ever been so embarrassing? In Ryan Murphy’s new legal drama everything is fairwhich has debuted with a rare zero percent critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes, it appears we have reached new heights of career-women crisis.
an expressionless act Kim Kardashian with Naomi Watts and Niecy Nash As the founder of an all-female divorce firm representing the wives of billionaires everything is fair The heroines offer casual one-liners like “We are moving away from the patriarchy.”,” ”Business is the way I find relaxation” and ”Let’s put Team In teamwork.” They march down hallways and jump on private jets as if it’s part of the daily grind. And it appears Kardashian’s character, ball-busting lawyer Allura, has only one job: bully rich people from across the boardroom table. In fact, this series is supposedly set in the present day, but these girlbosses speak as if the year is still 2014, and they’re corporate robots pre-programmed to name-drop luxury brands in every sentence (“Let’s get those Goyard travel cases and start stuffing them!”).
The language and aesthetics of the career woman in this 2025 series feel dated as the once-hot appeal of the girlboss has been fading over the years. Born in the mid-2010s, the Girlboss concept promised a utopia where women could enter workplaces, take a seat at the male-dominated table and become a coveted CEO. Forbes 30 Under 30 list By the ripe age of 23 (and do it all while wearing a fuchsia blazer and a balayage hairdo, of course). She was featured on Glossier’s Emily Weiss, Bumble’s Whitney Wolfe and Audrey Gelman, founder of women’s co-working space The Wing. The original Girlboss Frontier was led by Sophia Amoruso, founder of fast fashion brand Nasty Gal, who created the brand in her twenties. forbes As “one of America’s richest self-made women” in June 2016,, And even trademarked the term “girlboss” with a 2014 memoir and subsequent Netflix show.
This was the era of pastel-colored Instagram feminism, which urged women to build empires in pantsuits. The “End the Patriarchy” infographics were reshared and reposted on Instagram. Girlboss was all about bucking the system, working hard, and always advocating for yourself in the name of empowerment. #MightyMenstruation etc.
Girlboss started moving very quickly towards irony. By 2021, the Internet adopted the slogan “Gaslight, Girlboss, Gatekeep” to satirize the toxic white feminism often associated with girlbossism. “Flying too close to the sun”, a play on “flying too close to the sun”, was another popular term used when overzealous attempts to succeed spectacularly backfire. It wasn’t that people wanted Girlboss to fail; The thing is, the concept of girlbossism only works for a select few.
Still, the Girlboss archetype persists today, just in a different font. Girlbosses of 2025 don’t preach about smashing the patriarchy with a sledgehammer or promoting empowerment, but still sell an idealJadeThe image of having it all – a life of leisure, wealth and glamor along with their soft-spoken empires. Modern Girlboss shows her struggling with the opulence of her lifestyle instead of working late nights. Their fate is before you, but it is clearly not connected with careerism. it is called Easy Property.
Just look at model and Justin’s wife Hailey Bieber, who founded her hugely successful makeup brand Rhode in 2022 and sold it for $1 billion earlier this year. Instead of sharing her hustle mentality on social media, she posts photos of herself in luxury pajamas or in bed with her dog. “May I never get your email,” she captioned a recent Instagram post, expressing a level of frustration with the mundanity of finding a job. working hard or hardly working? The new generation of girlbosses wants to keep us guessing.
Bieber would never risk social embarrassment by calling himself she-eo or anything offensive like that. That’s because we’ve always known that Girlboss performance has been disappointing in many ways, especially because it undermines women’s career successes (I don’t think anyone is calling Steve Jobs a #boyboss). Today, the new girlboss is a more muted term: “female founder.” The name appears in the title of Meghan Markle’s business podcast, Statement from a female founderWhich is full of conversations about incubation, KPIs and metrics.
Girlbossism has become quite popular in the 2010s, as it is no surprise that it was not so easy to eliminate gender inequality in the workplace in one fell swoop. In 2015, Amoruso’s Naughty Gal became the subject of a discrimination lawsuit and toxic workplace claims. The company filed for bankruptcy the following year. In 2020, former employees of The Wing, a women-only co-working space, alleged misconduct and Gelman stepped down. In Everything is fair, There is too much infighting and inappropriate relationships.
The girlbosses of the mid-2010s promised women the world: power, prestige, and the ability to destroy the patriarchy in stilettos. Today’s version trades strong empowerment rhetoric for softer pro-life sentiments. In everything is fairEchoes of the old ideal remain – excessive luxury, one-liners meant to signal authority, and Kim Kardashian in an oversized pantsuit – but the self-seriousness that once defined Girlboss has turned into parody. She’s still in the new generation, hidden under layers of athleisure. I’m just grateful that she no longer utters phrases like “Business is the way I find comfort.”