Netflix’s Girlboss: Adulthood Is Where Dreams Go To Die
Entrepreneurship is easy if you don’t want to grow up
We need those sweet, familiar clichés we’ve all identified with at some point in our young lives: a show featuring lots of talk about society, boxes and dream murderers (aka parents). A show to inspire us to rebel and dream again. A show allowing us to escape.
This is not that show.
Girlboss is about 23 year old Sophia trying to pull off adulthood without actually growing up. A spoiled girl who refuses to give up and get a job just like the rest of us. She takes the first thing she sees (in this case a colorful “biker” jacket supposedly from the 70s, going for $12 in a local second hand “vintage” clothes shop) and turns it into a business idea, claiming she figured out life. The show makes this revelation seem very romantic and inspiring, even so because it happens when Sophia is about to hit rock bottom and the world is pressing on her. But if you take away the pinch of salt and creativity she puts into presenting these second hand vintage clothes online (using her body as a model — something people are using as an argument against the apparent feminist nature of the show — because anything with a female lead these days is called feminist), it’s basically just a last resort, the final desperate attempt at…
