Girl Boss
Girlboss is an American comedy streaming television series created by Kay Cannon.[2] The series was released on Netflix on April 21, 2017.[3][4] The show was cancelled after one season.[5]
Girl Boss
The show is based on Sophia Amoruso's 2014 autobiography #Girlboss,[2] which tells the story of how Amoruso started the company Nasty Gal while working as a campus safety host for San Francisco's Academy of Art University.
In February 2016, it was announced that Netflix had ordered a series based on Amoruso's autobiography #Girlboss.[8] It was announced that the first season received an order of 13 episodes.[9] In June 2016, Britt Robertson joined the cast of the series.[10] That same month, Johnny Simmons, Alphonso McAuley and Ellie Reed joined the cast.[11][12][13] In July 2016, Dean Norris joined the cast in a recurring role.[14]
Girlboss is a neologism which denotes a woman "whose success is defined in opposition to the masculine business world in which she swims upstream".[1] Popularised by Sophia Amoruso in her 2014 book Girlboss, the concept's ethos has been described as "convenient incrementalism".[1] The term is conversely used with sarcastic and pejorative undertones, to denote women who attempt to raise their professional lives by practicing the same abusive and materialistic practices found in the patriarchal society.[2]
The term became popular in 2014 after Sophia Amoruso used it with a hashtag prefix in her bestselling autobiography, which was adapted into a TV show of the same name.[3] Its early usage was defined by perceived empowerment.[3] Its popularity led to it becoming a "a template for marketing and writing about powerful women in virtually every industry".[4] By 2019, the concept had begun to derive disdain from some women and viewed as ironic; others still believed in its worth.[5][6] In 2022, Amoruso herself tweeted "Please stop using the world Girlboss thank you."[7]
Some audiences began to critique the girlboss for pursuing individual successes instead of working to weaken the forces of the patriarchy and pursue broader structural change. However, some believe that individual women's achievements can still be praised, and that this is not mutually exclusive with also working towards better workplaces and positive change on the societal level. Martha Gill of The Guardian writes that feminist movements can "push for change and help women in an imperfect world," yet still "celebrate women who succeed anyway."[8]
In early 2020, the self-regulatory organisation Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banned a billboard, advertising PeoplePerHour, which read: "You do the girl boss thing we'll do the SEO thing".[3] Later in 2020, the George Floyd protests saw a number of high-profile women executives resign after accusations of creating toxic and racist workplaces.[9] According to Amanda Mull of The Atlantic, this time saw the "end of the girlboss" manifest in a "cultural pushback".[4] Judy Berman of Time stated that the rise of anti-capitalist sentiment among youth had turned the term "into a joke, a meme, something hopelessly cheugy."[10] Alex Abad-Santos of Vox argued that the term has "shifted culturally from a noun to a verb, one that described the sinister process of capitalist success and hollow female empowerment," pointing to the parody phrase "Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss."[11][12]
According to Magdalena Zawisza, associate professor of Gender Psychology at Anglia Ruskin University, "It is very difficult to escape the deeply rooted gender stereotypes, and many such linguistic attempts backfire ... While 'girl boss' immediately draws attention to the feminine, it also infantilizes the role of a female as a boss".[3] Mull critiqued the idea for reinforcing power structures created by men.[4]
Hannah Ewens of Vice noted that, although the idea is one of the 2010s, its roots go back to the 1980s: "The Working Woman of the Thatcher and Reagan era, strutting in wearing her power suit, had both the boss and the baby on a leash".[5] Emma Maguire, in an article for The Conversation, echoed a similar sentiment, saying that the idea of girlboss was only possible through feminist achievements. She chose June Dally-Watkins as an example of a historical girlboss.[21] Ewens viewed a girlboss as a multi-tasking woman who doesn't view family as a priority and "deceptively dissolves class without understanding or interacting with it".[5] Maguire wrote that "Girlboss rhetoric often works to propagate sexism, racism, and class elitism, among other forms of oppression".[21]
$300 million. In 2014, she authored a bestseller that inspired a movement and triggered a hashtag that appeared on over 12 million Instagram posts. Girlboss was about the struggle of developing our dreams and our work ethic. She left the reader believing that our work can and should be rewarding at all stages.
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Many have criticized the term for promoting capitalist feminism, in which the rise of some women comes at the expense of others through ruthless financial competition. Under this model, female empowerment becomes synonymous with making an excessive amount of money. This, critics claim, further fuels existing inequalities in the status quo. Instead of reshaping the financial system and raising up all women, the girl boss attitude causes women to continue following the capitalist pyramid in order to succeed and earn respect from society while pushing other women down in the process. Others denounce the wording of the term for invalidating female authority by categorizing female leadership as something unusual. Its rise and fall has opened up a discussion on the true definition of feminism and whether the idea of girl bosses actually helps the movement toward gender equality.
Girlboss is finally available on Netflix and with it, we see a hip and trendy Sophia selling her clothes on the internet. To accompany her is a soundtrack that matches the mood of the show down to a tee.
Since Uncommon James was founded in 2017, Kristin has grown the home-goods and jewelry brand into the one of her dreams. What was an empty warehouse in the first season of Very Cavallari has now turned into a "go-to" for modern women on the go. The reality star has kept the successful brand primarily online with only one flagship store in Nashville. But according to this girl boss, it's only the beginning.
Fenty Beauty was just the beginning for this Hollywood icon. This past summer, Rihanna announced a partnership with LVMH, the world's largest luxury group, to create a new fashion line called Fenty. According to the New York Times, Rihanna will be the first woman to create an original brand at the group, joining empires such as Dior, Givenchy and Fendi. We cannot wait to see what else this ultimate girl boss has in store.
Netflix's Girlboss series shows Sophia discovering and treating her inguinal hernia. In the medical world, inguinal hernias and hernia repair surgery aren't rare. "It's one of the most common surgical procedures we perform," Dana Telem, M.D., M.P.H., director of the Michigan Comprehensive Hernia Program at Michigan Medicine and an associate professor at the University of Michigan Medical School, tells SELF. "There are probably 400,000 to 500,000 inguinal hernia repairs performed in the country each year, but they're much more common in men than they are in women."
In Girlboss, Sophia doesn't treat her hernia and it leads to painful complications. She starts feeling a sharp pain, begins vomiting, and in the next scene she's in the emergency room. She claims her hernia "exploded," but that's not the case. When someone with an inguinal hernia exhibits these severe symptoms, it typically means a loop of intestine got caught in the hernia and obstructed the contents that move through the intestines (think digested food, stool, and liquids). "Then people bloat up and get nausea and vomiting," LaVorgna says. "It's a very strong pain that makes people rush to the emergency room and we operate on them as an emergency case." 041b061a72