I feel like girl boss mentality takes place in this void where systemic issues don't really exist,

or they do exist, but they can be surmounted by one person.

There are no girls on the internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative.

I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.

No podcast about women and technology could be complete without talking about the era of the girl boss.

In the odds, around 2013-2014, women were leaning in, girl boss in and hashtag hustling

in traditionally male-dominated spaces like technology and entrepreneurship. So when I hear the word

girl boss, I think of women like

Cheryl Sandberg, formerly of Facebook, Sophia Amarosa, who basically wrote the book on Girl Boss,

her 2014 memoir and the Netflix show based on her life was literally called Girl Boss, and Elizabeth Holmes,

who may have Girl Bossed a little bit too close to the sun when her

blood testing company Theranos was revealed to be a scam. And I will admit, I had a bit of a

girl boss era, where I thought feminism was connected to me individually, kicking ass professionally

and making a lot of money. Now, to be clear,

there is absolutely nothing wrong with women having ambition in their careers or holding power.

That is all great. But the Girl Boss era really sold us ambition as liberation. It sold us on the

idea that you could lean in and overperform your way out of institutional systems,

like racism, patriarchy, sexism, and capitalism.

And more and more, I think we're seeing the flaws in that mindset.

In her one-woman show, Girl Who Miss Boss, comedian and podcaster Jamie Loftus, takes on the girl boss.

Her Cheryl Sandberg-style girl boss archetype is named Shell Gasoline Sandwich.

And she's a toxic corporate feminist who's teaching all fellow girl bosses how to use technology to steal data for fun, profit, and hashtag feminism.

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