What The Bold Type taught me

In the 90s and early 2000s, Sex and the City was a feminist revolution. Talking freely about sex and fulfilling careers, focusing on fun and flings and fabulous cocktails instead of motherhood and marriage and emphasising women’s desires were three of the central points of the 6-season long series.

I am confident, as a SATC superfan, that The Bold Type is SATC for millennial women and I am 100% here for it.

Sutton, Kat and Jane work for Scarlet, a progressive, feminist women’s magazine spearheaded by Jacqueline Carlyle, probably the dream boss. Unlike Miranda Priestly from the Devil Wears Prada, who has no tolerance for mistakes and keeps an emotional distance from her employees possibly to encourage a work environment of fear and respect, Jacqueline succeeds at both exuding respect and vulnerability. She never fails to congratulate her employees on their successes, and help them understand their failures and learn from them, all with the air of a person whose years in the industry have blessed her with mountains of knowledge but has managed to maintain her empathy for the millennial generation and the challenges they’re facing.

The Bold Type taught me a lot about vulnerability and its power. So many different characters of various seniority levels at Scarlet have breakdowns, both at work and in private, however they always come out of them…