“In our wide-open modern era of independent careers, girl squads can help women advance if they avoid presenting a silly, regressive public image — as in the tittering, tongues-out mugging of Swift’s bear-hugging posse. Swift herself should retire that obnoxious Nazi Barbie routine of wheeling out friends and celebrities as performance props, an exhibitionistic overkill that Lara Marie Schoenhals brilliantly parodied in her scathing viral video “Please Welcome to the Stage.”
– renowned academic and cultural critic Camille Paglia on the “girly and a bit bourgeois” #GirlSquad trend.
Watch the hilarious video Camille is referring to below!
Oh, I do so love a good dragging.