![]() 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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