She declares “Here I am, this is me / And I'm stronger than you ever thought I'd be.” Not only is the song sonically powerful, but it conveys that girls should not confine themselves to the labels others place on them. Perhaps the first look at modern feminism for Generation Z, “She’s So Gone” from the 2011 Disney Channel Orginial Movie “Lemonade Mouth” shows the shy bassist of the band reinventing herself in this solo song. The chorus is nothing short of good vibes with lyrics “I’m a bitch, I'm a boss / I'm a bitch and a boss, I'ma shine like gloss,” that make you want to get up and strut down an imaginary runway. The song is upbeat, easy to sing along to and simply uplifting. They just want to laugh at it.īy Chloe James, fashion and beauty editor of CORQ.“Boss Bitch” by Doja Cat is essential to any any feminist playlist. In this case, Gen Z isn’t trying to change the internet. They’re poking fun at years of fake news, faux-motivational feminist graphics on Instagram and 1990s kids gatekeeping everything and anything made before the millennium. Sure, these are the traits they find annoying about the preceding generation, but it’s more to do with their feelings about the internet millennials created which Gen Z subsequently grew up using. Now they don’t know what any of them mean.”įor Gen Z however, it really isn’t that deep. As one millennial Twitter user put it, “Gen Z grew up with too many words IMO. The generation has an online tendency to pit themselves against anyone born later than 1996 – remember when older TikTokkers were ready to go to war in the name of skinny jeans and Eminem? The mild hint of intergenerational criticism via “gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss” has certainly triggered a response. Nowadays you’re more likely to catch the term “girlboss” in Gen Z debates like “did Margaret Thatcher effectively utilise girl power by funnelling money into illegal paramilitary death camps in Northern Ireland?”. We even had a Netflix series of the same name celebrating the meteoric rise of Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso, the first person to call herself such a thing. There was a time when publications compiled roundups hailing their favourite girlbosses of the year. In particular, attitudes to “girlbossing” – the designated term for an entrepreneurial woman who “got shit done” and “smashed” it, 365 days a year – are something that really set the two apart. Just as how “live, laugh, love” before it came to define what the younger set of millennials mocked about the older half, “gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss” encapsulates the things Gen Z claim separate them from the previous generation. Not only is there merch and quizzes promising to tell you which of the three values you are (apparently I’m gaslight), but the phrase has since been applied to everything from movies to coronavirus vaccines. The joke started in the same place as 99% of the internet’s humour – Tumblr – where in January a user posted “today’s agenda: gaslight, gatekeep and, most importantly, girlboss”. If you had to pick one, would you gaslight, gatekeep or girlboss? That’s the question posed by Twitter users right now and it’s quickly become Gen Z’s tongue-in-cheek version of the overused Millennial trope “live, laugh, love”.
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