Goldberg’s movie recounts all of this, framing Wolfe Herd as the quintessential girlboss we’ve come to know and become somewhat wary of in that era; one who wears hoodies and blazers to the office, chugs beer at frat parties and jokes around with the boys, yet everyone wants to date, and who subsists on a diet of crappy junk food and Red Bulls, yet somehow has not one blemish on their skin. The movie comes on the heels of other similar movies and series about high-powered women, and in a time when we’re reframing just how we view ambitious women who have been maligned, mistreated, and misunderstood in the past. This has run the gamut from the 2017 Netflix series Girlboss, which chronicled Nasty Gal founder Sophie Amuroso’s start and rise to resale dominance, to Hulu’s 2022 miniseries The Dropout, an intimate and complicated portrayal of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. It’s important to note that, like Wolfe Herd, most of these redemptive arcs have explored the experiences of white women.
