Girlboss mythology rewrote the Cinderella archetype as self-directed hustling

Evidence

The modern Cinderella didn’t wait for a prince; she hustled her way toward fortune. Amoruso, a “hipster dynamo dream girl,” went from “anarchist shoplifter to multimillionaire.” — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 324

Categorization

• STORYSTEM: The anarchist-shoplifter-to-multimillionaire arc, stripped of authenticity, is almost a ready-made satire or character backstory.