The Year The #Girlboss Died

Hello fellow after work drinkers! This week we're fan-girling over Michaela Coel (again), investigating why Timmy Chalamet's bous tour of Cabo has enraged Twitter and lapping up Netflix's new documentary Disclosure, which gives an incredible history of trans representation on screen. Next it's a throwback topic: Kim Kardashian and women who promote unrealistic beauty standards to other women. Kim's 'corset selfie' rightly earned the ire of the internet, with Jameela Jamil claiming that the furore as a victory for the body positivity movement. Jameela also claimed that the Kardashians are simply brainwashed by the patriarchy and so shouldn't be personally blamed for her problematic actions - which calls into the question the age-old conundrum: How accountable are women when they choose to uphold patriarchal beauty standards? Then, we offer a touching eulogy to the #girlboss - a boring trope which appears to have died in 2020. As the young female founders who brandished the title are stepping down in disgrace, we investigate how the 'girlboss' was always corporate tokenism, giving women a false sense that gender equality had made its way into the world of business. Are women who run businesses in the same exploitative way men do really progress? And how do we unpack that discomfiting sense of glee when we seem to get whenever a female founder gets ousted? 

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Disclosure (2020)

People Are Trying To Cancel Timmy C For Getting Laid During The Yemen Crisis by Pedestrian TV

https://www.pedestrian.tv/news/timothee-chalamet-cancelled-cabo/

'The Girlboss Has Left The Building' in the Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/06/girlbosses-what-comes-next/613519/ 

The End of the Girlboss is here in Medium

https://gen.medium.com/the-end-of-the-girlboss-is-nigh-4591dec34ed8

Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History Episode 1

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