For millennials and the younger generation Z and Alphas, who may never be able to afford to buy a home or retire at a reasonable age, there is a growing feeling online that hard work is fortifying a system that, at best, is giving them nothing back and, at worst, is actively screwing them over. And so the “soft life” revolution was born – where the priority is no longer about working yourself to the bone to be a #girlboss or “leaning in” to the corporate male world, as former Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg wrote, and pushing until you “have it all”. The goal of a softer life is more time and energy for what makes you happy and as little time as possible focusing on what doesn’t.
I could only hack it for about 4 seconds. The emphatic (dare I say pregnant) dramatic pause; the submissive whisper vocal fry; the Hobby Lobby earnestness…shudder. Can't do it. I couldn't keep watching. Because these social media influencer #GirlBoss republican "empowered" women are Stepfordian mouthpieces for their husbands. It's excruciating watching this.
Susan G. Komen pink on everything once a year, #girlboss, 9000 stock photos of women being women at business, bragging about a high percent of the company being women while all of the top 10% earners are men, making a Big Deal about international women’s day on social media while quietly fucking with insurance to drive up the cost of women’s healthcare, etc. etc.
i was legitimately confused why i was getting zero replies in very active threads. and yes this is just a whine post about how horribly opaque fediverse moderation is these days...
When I bought it in 2020 – as a "yay! you've just incorporated your first company!" reward, because #girlboss, right? – I thought I'd ordered it with actual real leather, but instead I must've ordered synthetic leather; fast-forwards to today & that shits flaking off little bits of plastic everywhere.
So, I just took it apart & reupholstered it.
Probably could've used a strong cotton, but just used the light stuff I had on hand for a dress project. It'll do for now!
“It’s all that damn testosterone. Let women run everything.”
Did we watch the same movie? One of my main takeaways, and what I thought was so refreshing compared to other more #Girlboss feminist-coded movies like the Ghostbusters reboot, was that simply "letting women run everything" isn't the answer. Indeed, it's that setup in the beginning of the movie that creates that bitter resentment in Ken and causes a lot of the ensuing problems. One of the emotional climaxes of the movie is Barbie realizing that she has been mistreating him and that his pain is valid, even if how he's chosen to handle that pain was poor. The fundamental message I'd gotten was that a true feminism is not just girlbosses running everything, but rather is one that is inclusive of men and seeks to liberate them as well from toxic gender roles and expectations that harm them as well as women.
No, it's not really a critique of capitalism, but it's also not remotely trying to be one, and beyond that, the issues it's talking about aren't really fundamentally linked to economics. You can have rampant sexism and toxic gender roles in any and all economic systems.
@daniel_bohrer@SmithChart I'm sorry, but I am a fashion satanist, I am a living fashion antichrist
I don't believe in fashion, fashion believes in me and obeys me #girlboss#slay 💅
“[W]e have a whole bunch of people who feel like they’re being “left behind,” when they were born on the 20th floor and the elevator to the 25th floor isn’t working quite as reliably as it once did, so they’re deeply aggrieved and panicky and blaming the entire situation on the people who’ve recently moved into the 6th and 7th floor. Then you have a whole bunch of people who’ve spent their entire lives trying to plan and procure the materials to jerry-rig a ladder from the ground or the 4th floor or the 4th floor to the 10th. They know that unless they maintain utmost vigilance — watching that ladder every hour of every day — it risks falling apart entirely.
At some point people just say: fuck it, there has to be more to life than watching and building and re-building this cursed broken ladder.
There is — and there’s absolutely a conversation to be had [. . .] about what it looks like to de-couple “ambition” from “career.” But if you’re curious about why so many women in their late 30s and 40s are exhausted or dropping out of the workforce entirely, why so many are trying to figure out where their ambition went — well, when the race has no end point, sometimes your endurance just runs out. That’s the fault at the heart of #GirlBoss feminism and white feminism more broadly: if the goal is simply matching the success of white men without re-imagining the world that privileged it in the first place, the whole enterprise is a dead end.”
Millennials and Gen-Zers are pulling in bigger paychecks, but much of their spending power is fueling short-term purchases like groceries and vacations, not savings (www.nbcwashington.com)
Pearl Hart, one of the last stagecoach robbers in the US, circa 1900
Queerbaiting rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
‘Andrew Tate is a symptom, not the problem’: why young men are turning against feminism (www.theguardian.com)
Teachers describe a deterioration in behaviour and attitudes that has proved to be fertile terrain for misogynistic influencers...
Trump Says Anyone Who Donates to Haley Is 'Permanently Banned' From MAGA (www.rollingstone.com)
The ex-president continued to whine over his rival’s presence in the GOP primaries...
it's a puzzling one i'll tell you hwat (lemmy.one)
i was legitimately confused why i was getting zero replies in very active threads. and yes this is just a whine post about how horribly opaque fediverse moderation is these days...
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