![]() Discussing her character forces you to become an angry octogenarian on a porch.īut the show is in the shadow of the real-life Sophia from the cover of her book: hands on her hips like a superhero in shoulder pads. She is a selfish narcissist who doesn’t know the meaning of a hard day’s work. In the first episode, she embodies every stereotype for millennials that an uncle has ever loudly decried over dinner: she’s late to work and unrepentant, she steals (first her boss’s sandwich, then an actual full-sized oriental rug), she doesn’t pay rent, swears excessively, and shows no respect for anybody else’s time. And, “Sophia Marlowe” from Girlboss should be incredibly, incredibly unlikable. There is nothing wrong with characters on television being unlikable, especially if those characters are women. ![]() Yes! You go, girl! Achieve your dreams! Who is going to say that that little girl shouldn’t become an astronaut? No one, that’s who, and that’s why we’re all feminists. You should be imagining an elementary school student who says she wants to become an astronaut someday. Women aren’t women-with body hair and bloody tampons, who need abortions and child support. It’s noncontroversial, one-size-fits-all feminism, Ivanka feminism, designed to appeal to all and offend nobody. ![]() The phrase “#Girlboss,” like “Girl Power!” and “Fearless Girl,” seems scientifically constructed for a toothless kind of empowerment. ![]()
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