if these shows are sort of this feminine id fantasy, right? That's what a girl boss show is. It's a

heteronormative cisgender id fantasy. If like what success means and what that fantasy could be

or what it looks like is changing so much right now, like where do we go from here?

Hi, I'm Eric. And I'm Brittany.

And this is for colored nerds.

The weekly show where we peel back the layers of black culture that we rarely discuss in mixed company.

So this week we're talking about the resurgence of the girl boss in the city show.

So namely, the originator of the entire genre, sex in the city, or it's more contemporary reboot and just like that. But the reboot is coming at the same time as two other girl boss shows featuring

all black casts, Harlem and Run the World, not to mention Insecure, 20s, First Wives Club,

and even Master of Nunn's Season 3. So as as you can probably guess, Britney has watched all these shows.

But we will be lying if we didn't acknowledge they all seem to follow the same sex-in-a-city format.

And today, we're uncovering if that's actually a good thing for us in the long run.

You should stay tuned.

When you said you wanted to talk about this, initially I won't lie, I was a little hesitant.

I've only recently, I think, come to this genre.

And, like, you actually had to, I think, kind of help me define it.

Like I knew, I think a few of the things, but I hadn't necessarily thought about how to connect

them.

Can you help me define it a little more like clearly?

Yes.

Yes, yes, yes.

Even though Girl Boss is like a relatively new term, the term Girl Boss came about long after Sex and the City had even ended as a show and a movie franchise. I think that the idea of like a woman like trying to be super successful in her career or achieving a lot of success in her career and making a lot of money, having a comfortable lifestyle,

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