You and Your Dependent Identity

The Road to Consumer Nationalism Part 1

This is the first part in a four part series called The Road to Consumer Nationalism. Part 1 2 3 4.

Here’s a question for you: what happens if no woman ever founds a Fortune 500 company? 

This isn’t a sexist question: the New York Times itself declared The End of the Girlboss after Emily Weiss “stepped away” from Glossier. Before that, the best chance was Elizabeth Holmes.

Progressive Western culture believes, foundationally, that women would have created all the same things as men if not for millennia of misogyny. So we work to level the playing field. We implement policy reforms (like compelling boards of directors to include women), economic reforms (like paid maternity leave), and biological reforms (like funding employees’ abortions). 

At the end of all this, the idea is that the historical abacus will be corrected. Weiss and Holmes are seen as stepping stones—failures to launch, sure, but sooner or later we’ll get this thing off the ground. Without toxic masculinity, an equal number…