where their tone reads first as 'fuck you, specific man' and the empowerment there is a product of the man being disappointing so the woman gurrlbosses up.
Out of all the songs, 'No Scrubs' isn't about hating men, it's about ignoring 'scrubs' who go after women who are out of their league. A verse involves men leaning out of their cars and 'hollering' at them, - which is still done today, might I add - and in black culture, a man being a 'scrub' is a deadbeat, a broke ass nigga wanting a woman and then expecting her to give it all up for him. TLC had better songs than most girl groups at the time. The TLC women were dissed in the song, 'Just Playing' by Biggie, who rapped about a bunch of black women being fuckable or not - he said Chaka Khan had a hairy pussy and would have to 'hit it from the back' and how Mariah Carey was 'scary' - and it was common for girl groups to get dragged.
In their specific case, girlbossing might save their lives as so many of these men were rapists and abusers.
I remember when Taylor Swift was still doing country and her look was around the 'Girl Next Door'. Then she went into NLOG status with that one song on how she's a lower status teenager who isn't paid attention to by the popular guy while the cheerleader does:
[Verse 1]
You're on the phone with your girlfriend, she's upset
She's going off about something that you said
'Cause she doesn't get your humor like I do
I'm in the room, it's a typical Tuesday night
I'm listening to the kind of music she doesn't like
And she'll never know your story like I do
[Pre-Chorus]
'Cause she wears short skirts, I wear T-shirts
She's Cheer Captain and I'm on the bleachers
Dreaming 'bout the day when you wake up and find
That what you're looking for has been here the whole time
[Chorus]
If you could see that I'm the one who understands you
Been here all along, so why can't you see?
You belong with me, you belong with me
I bet you that cheerleader is volunteering at her local animal shelter or charity while the girl in the bleachers is on a Something Awful forum trolling people. Not that either is bad, per se - it's the holier-than-thou aspect of it. Now I gotta wonder what the random guy's humour is for the cheer captain to 'not get it'. Cheerleaders are very social and not all of them are glitter and butterflies.
The consequences of the masplaining meme still haunts us till this day. Maybe initially it had some reasonable problems to point out but this is downright clown thinking
The funny thing is, I've read fanfic where Rey is given a better backstory and lore to her powers than the films did. Before it was revealed she was related to Palpatine, people wondered if she was a Kenobi. Honestly, it'd be cool as fuck if she was related to Darth Revan, and would be a nod to KOTOR and other lore.
None of these survival mechanisms are necessary any more.
This is untrue, we still utilize these mechanisms. They just operate under different environments.
