Strong, boss babes

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Aibu to find all this talk a bit 🙄

International women’s day today, so many posts on my Instagram & Fb about being strong, boss babes and raising strong women etc

I just find it all a bit cliche and meh

What do you mean you don't feel empowered all the "hashtag ladyboss" stuff. We all know that declaring oneself a strong lady boss on the socials is a surefire way to a payrise and better gender parity in tasks home. I think you may be feminisming wrong.

Go look at LinkedIn,....it's even worse

I didn't know what a Boss Babe was so I looked it up. It seems to be aggressively capitalist and American.

"I'm building an empire." "Work till your bank balance is a phone number".

It kind of reminds me of women who call themselves bitches.

But it’s 30/40 something mums too, posting about how they’re bringing up their daughters to be strong and how they’re all bossing it 😬
Photos of them at brunch with the captions ‘Strong women’ it’s just a bit 🤮

In fairness has a social media slogan ever been anything except cringe

I'm not a fan of it either. But it's the capitalism element that I dislike. However it was women's day, a day for us to speak and celebrate ourselves in any way that has meaning for us, so it seems a shame to criticise each other for how we did that.

I'm all for women (especially on IWD!) speaking up about how they feel empowered, I'm not too fussed what language they use to do it.

Hard agree. It seems really childish to me.

Strong women raise children well, achieve in the workplace, overcome hardship and trauma and keep on going. The world can see these types of women battle hardened from a mile off. It's inspiring to see.

Strength is demonstrated through overcoming adversity, not through posting a hashtag and childish slogan with a selfie of you eating brunch. These types of women seem vacuous to me and the opposite of strong or boss babes.

It's like the old adage, if you have to tell me how great you are you really aren't that good. Don't tell me show me.

Oh the irony of putting down other women on IWD.

I don't love the term 'boss babe' but nothing wrong with celebrating women who are smashing it at work, at home, generally in life.

I hate international women’s day, it’s stupid. It exists for all the wrong reasons and often seems to cause more harm than good.

I agree. It's not a term I like so I don't use it but anything that makes women feel empowered can't be a bad thing. We've been put down for centuries by men, we don't need the criticism from women too.

My issue with these posts or having to say ‘strong women’ is that it implies we are, in fact, different in some way and it’s more of an achievement or whatever we’ve got a job.

We should do a ‘IWD blackout’ type thing where we all just share our monthly childcare costs as a ‘have you considered this might be the problem?’ Type thing.

I usually see that term used by MLM huns. Now can’t help associating it with Aloe Vera and scented candles. Bossin it with your own business? No Alison, you’re trying to flog shitty fake tan again.

"Boss babes" for me means pouty contoured women who look like they've all come off the same production line, and they're running pyramid or MLM schemes, selling Younique makeup to all their pestered friends and family, who add you as Facebook friends when they've not seen you for 15 years and their first message is one inviting to to like their page.

I replied before reading the full thread, but yep, my sentiments exactly!

I agree @brunettemic the whole thing is cringe.

What I also don't agree with is saying women shouldn't criticise each other and show solidarity. It's implying we are a hive mind and incapable of different opinions and is in itself a very sexist concept. Do you think there will be world peace on international men's day, because they should all learn to get along and agree on everything? No, people are unique and complex and entitled to have vastly different world views. There is no 'women's point of view' on a anything, just individuals.

From what I’ve seen, the whole “Boss Babe” thing went out of fashion a good few years ago with the younger crowd. It’s a bit like FB. Now the parents are doing the boss babe thing and making their teens cringe.