girlbossification
girlbossification noun: the act of extolling individual stories of female empowerment.
Noun
girlbossification (uncountable)
- The act of extolling individual stories of female empowerment.
- This girlbossification nearly always puts women in competition with each other, rather than emphasizing shared struggle.2021 December 26, Alexis Soloski, “Catherine Was Great. But Was She a Girl Boss?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Dec 2021
- The Waiting Game shows that if we simply allow women to exist in the past on their own terms there is no need for explicit 'girlbossification'; they are a fascinating historical lens in their own right.2025, Nicola Clark, The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens, unnumbered page
Origin of girlbossification
From girlboss + -ification.
Questions about girlbossification
- What does girlbossification mean?
- Girlbossification means the act of extolling individual stories of female empowerment.
- What part of speech is girlbossification?
- Girlbossification is a noun.
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