"The girlboss is dead, or so I thought. She belonged to a brief moment in a longer struggle over women and our suitability for life outside the home. Now the home might swallow us up: The right wing dreads " the longhouse," ruled by women and their "weepy moralism," or " the great feminization" of society. The girlboss had begun to look quaint by the time I picked up Karine Jean-Pierre's new book,"
"she was leaving the Democratic Party to become - don't hold your breath - an independent. The memoir is short, which is a mercy. Reading it made me wonder if I'd consumed a life-altering quantity of Benadryl and hallucinated a trip back in time. She writes as if the year is still 2014 and a woman's professional accomplishments outweigh moral considerations. The girlboss lives after all."
The piece critiques a persistent 'girlboss' mentality that prizes women's professional advancement while minimizing ethical scrutiny. Karine Jean-Pierre is presented as embodying that mentality through loyalty to political authority and nostalgic rhetoric of empowerment and self-care. The memoir's shortness is noted as merciful, and its defense of Biden's failures is described as dismissive and delusional. The critique argues that such feminism validates system-serving ambition rather than genuine independence, warning that career-focused narratives can excuse poor judgment and perpetuate political complacency.
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