Tressie McMillan Cottom

The Revolt Against the Girl Bosses Has Finally Come

By Tressie McMillan Cottom

A.I. is coming for our jobs, fascists are coming for our freedoms and the girl bosses are fighting for their lives.

Mel Robbins, the lawyer turned empowerment influencer, Reese Witherspoon, the Southern belle turned A-list celebrity turned high-powered Hollywood hitmaker and Emma Grede, the cool girl chief executive of the Kardashian-connected Good American, have outraged a lot of people by influencing too close to the sun. It’s quite a turn of fortunes. The very thing that turbocharged their wealth and popularity now has millions of women giving them the side eye. Have Americans fallen out of........

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