Are you more of a boss girl, sacred feminine or that girl? How these archetypes fuel misogyny

On digital social networks, many feminists popularize knowledge of sexism (this genre is called videosages “). In addition to Clara Dfx (formerly Clarinette) or Amocide, Sabine is growing up on TikTok and YouTube, specializing in the fight against” bullshit about personal development and spirituality “.

In a video posted on October 25, 2022 on the Alphabet group platform, @lasabz_ analyzes how the ” Girl Power it pretends to reinvent itself in the service of feminism on social networks, but in reality it too often feeds sexism.

How does Girl Power fuel sexism?

In a YouTube video released on October 25, 2022, the content creator decodes how the Girl Power claim revolves around 4 archetypes on social networks:

1. the well known boss girl and its liberal feminism,
2. the most bohemian one who claims to be sacred feminine,
3. he who aspires to perfect perfection (to be ” that girl “, that is, this perfect woman, who gets up at dawn to chain yoga, matcha, diary and the race to productivity)
4. the alpha female (who claims to be in her #DarkFeminineEra: Age of Dark Femininity).

4 female archetypes in vogue on the networks, 1 same misogyny conveyed

Sabine alias @lasabz demonstrates in her video how these 4 archetypes that claim to defend a form of female power, in fact, all too often pay off sexist essentiality and internalized misogyny.

Far from monolithically condemning this type of content that may be useful for some people to watch, it reminds usit would be practically impossible to completely avoid this type of content on the networks.

Rather than making people feel guilty, we might then appreciate them by keeping a critical eye, In the first place. On the other hand, to maintain this decline, Sabine alias @lasabz also recommends diversifying the type of content we consume, as well as continuing to question the representations they convey, explicitly or not.

Front page photo credit: YouTube screenshot.