This is the "chainmail bikini paradox". Women argue that skimpy outfits are not appropriate for female medieval warriors - they should wear the same protection as men! Men respond: if we're being realistic, then women shouldn't be engaging in combat at all.
Point being: we only tolerated girl bosses because they were attractive. In real life, girl bosses basically don't exist. All of the richest women in the world are divorcees. All of the best female athletes and chess players are sequestered away in their own leagues. The vast majority of women run from war and dangerous jobs, and the ones who don't are almost always a liability.
When flawless female leaders and soldiers and geniuses and heroes started showing up in our media, we suspended disbelief because they were cute or hot or otherwise compelling as women. Feminists broke that unspoken bargain when they turned all of these girl bosses into insufferable ugly cunts. Now there's no upside to enduring the incongruity between media depictions of women and our real life experiences with them.
If I want to be annoyed by some stupid 4/10 who thinks she's both a supermodel and the smartest person in the room, I don't need to spend $70 on a video game. I can just walk around outside for a few minutes.
This is the "chainmail bikini paradox". Women argue that skimpy outfits are not appropriate for female medieval warriors - they should wear the same protection as men! Men respond: if we're being realistic, then women shouldn't be engaging in combat at all.
Point being: we only tolerated girl bosses because they were attractive. In real life, girl bosses basically don't exist. All of the richest women in the world are divorcees. All of the best female athletes and chess players are sequestered away in their own leagues. The vast majority of women run from war and dangerous jobs, and the ones who don't are almost always a liability.
When flawless female leaders and soldiers and geniuses and heroes started showing up in our media, we suspended disbelief because they were cute or hot or otherwise compelling as women. Feminists broke that unspoken bargain when they turned all of these girl bosses into insufferable ugly cunts. Now there's no upside to enduring the incongruity between media depictions of women and our real life experiences with them.
If I want to be annoyed by some stupid 4/10 who thinks she's both a supermodel and the smartest person in the room, I don't need to spend $70 on a video game. I can just walk around outside for a few minutes.