I didn’t realize how much this messaging—women and girls being financially solvent, minus the moralizing—was absent until rewatching Working Girl, an Oscar-nominated 1988 film about a brilliant Wall Street secretary (Melanie Griffith) who gets played by her idea-stealing boss (Sigourney Weaver). Mel starts off apprehensive but is scene-stealing as an alpha, like purring this Riri-worthy lyric to a potential partner, “I have a head for business, and a bod for sin. Is there anything wrong with that?”
Girl power is dead. Who else has spent near a decade reminding today’s women that in a capitalist patriarchal society the best way to survive is to do you and get your own?
Would you critic an empowerment song if you were empowered?
Yes, she loved it. I hope you hang yourself with your H&M scarf,
while jacking off listening to Mozart
You bitch and moan about LA
Wishing you were in the rain reading Hemingway
Yes, she loved it. I hope you hang yourself with your H&M scarf,
while jacking off listening to Mozart
You bitch and moan about LA
Wishing you were in the rain reading Hemingway
Hm, no - that sounds like she's apologizing for her HORRENDOUS Christian "album" (mixtape)
Don't BLAME her. A little weird that she went from God's minion to Satan's sex toy though. OMG
WTF, let me just pretend I do not know that tidbit of information.
