Hollywood's feminist 'girlboss' era faces backlash amid Netflix layoffs

The author contends that contemporary feminism has fractured the traditional family and forced corporations to adopt mandatory female hiring quotas, eventually influencing mainstream culture, especially Hollywood, with a liberal elite. Recent developments, such as Netflix handing the C.S. Lewis fantasy franchise to director Greta Gerwig and a wave of layoffs that disproportionately removed women executives, are presented as signs that the 'girlboss' era is under threat.

Citing a Vanity Fair article by Rebecca Ford, the writer challenges Ford’s claim that losing three female leaders harms the industry, arguing that women already dominated decision-making roles and pursued a single agenda of sidelining male protagonists like Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Indiana Jones, James Bond, Mad Max, Black Panther and John Wick in favor of female leads such as Furiosa. The piece frames these events as the start of a cultural 'witch hunt' against the feminist influence that has shaped Hollywood for the first quarter of the 21st century.