And 75% of you are men.īecause I’m a woman who’s had to work with men in a world made for them, I can imagine how some of that 75% might react to the title of this piece: “not for me.” Tuesdays are your most active days on the app. Instagram tells me this about my audience: It’s made up mostly of people between the ages of 25 and 34. Now, it’s time to introduce our topic for Episode 5 of Thinking Is Cool. If you’re feeling generous, share this email with a friend before the pod drops.
Follow me here to tune in, ask questions, vibe out, etc.Įpisode 4 of Thinking Is Cool drops Monday. I’m going live on Instagram tomorrow at 11:30am ET to talk about this week’s climate change episode. And if you don’t, email me and I’ll help you find one.īefore we dive in, a couple of important programming notes:
I hope you have some reasons to celebrate today, too. I’m so into this week’s blog topic that it’s almost hard to focus on anything else. I know there are a lot of ways you can spend your time, and I’m really grateful opening this message is one of them. That’s half of my first season under my belt. I’m writing this email about what will become episode 5 of Thinking Is Cool.
Happy Friday and happy Pride and happy summertime and happy everything! Here are some reasons I’m in a particularly celebratory mood: If you enjoyed this story, read more about what “cheugy” means.This email is going to be about the commodification of feminism and the reckoning that’s come for the #girlboss. In The Know is now available on Apple News - follow us here! In a way, the phrase gaslit, gatekept and girlbossed its way into modern vernacular. “Live, laugh, love” became satirical over the years, but “gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss” has always been a joke. There’s something inspiring about being so villainous in such a modern way. Someone who gaslights, gatekeeps and girlbosses is the perfect target of Gen Z disdain, but that disdain is so pure, it’s almost good.īringing these three words together celebrates the female scammers we’ve grown to have complicated love/hate relationships with, like fictional manipulator Amy Dunne from Gone Girl, Instagram try-hard Caroline Calloway, convicted fraudster Anna Delvey and disgraced tech pioneer Elizabeth Holmes. The three G’s encapsulate what young internet users hate the most, and that’s why we love it The 2010s girlboss movement, still embraced by some Millennials as “ cheugy,” has been teased into oblivion. These days, it’s not necessarily a good thing to be a girlboss, but it’s also a joke. We shouldn’t act like it’s unusual if a woman has power, and turning everything pink and flowery to appeal to women can be “ sexist and demeaning.” Other critics of the word “girlboss” say it’s needlessly gendered “ patronizing” - women who are bosses are just bosses. Hanna’s “creating conflict out of thin air” and beefing “with everyone she’s ever interacted with” gave off an air of “taking back her power,” as a so-called girlboss does in this day and age. TikTok user identified a recent example of being a “girlboss” or “girlbossification” in the reemergence of Gabbie Hanna, a Vine star turned YouTuber who, after months of relative silence, spent several days calling out critics of her 2017 poetry original sound – Serena Being a “girlboss” in the early 2010s was considered a good and impressive thing, but now, Gen Z considers it a “cringe” sign of trying too hard to further oneself. Someone who gaslights and gatekeeps generally isn’t a great person, which is why the inclusion of “girlboss” in the phrase is so interesting. In the same way, the term’s popularization makes the behavior easier to call out. Gatekeeping, like gaslighting, is a term that describes a manipulative behavior made popular on the internet. There’s a whole gatekeeping subreddit dedicated to calling out this behavior. If a punk music fan tells you that you can’t wear that shirt if you can’t name five Nirvana songs, that’s gatekeeping. I prefer their older stuff 😳 #indiekid #thestrokes #thenewabnormal #vinyl #indie #gatekeeper #gatekeep ♬ The Adults Are Talking – The Strokesįor instance, maybe you’re wearing a Nirvana shirt from Urban Outfitters.
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