faildaughter

Definitions

An incompetent, unsuccessful middle-class or upper-class woman who is protected from economic duress by her family's wealth or influence.

Internet, derogatory

Examples

“Coordinate term: failson”

“Its project, maybe, is working out what happens when the world says you must strive hard for professional and personal success above all, but offers only the conditions to become⟳ a faildaughter. It offers a look⟳ at the kind of feminism that is being developed by young women for whom the promise⟳ of feminism doesn't seem to be working out — faildaughters, not girl bosses.”

“Meritocracy is a cruel joke. The real scandal isn't all the unethical shenanigans rich parents will engage⟳ in to keep⟳ their failsons and faildaughters from tumbling down the socioeconomic ladder — it's that we use⟳ adolescents' test⟳ scores to ration economic security in the first place⟳.”

“Keeping failsons and faildaughters like⟳ that afloat as they bounce inevitably from project to project, collecting first art, then horses, then launching a pine nut milk startup, whatever—well, it's bound to add⟳ up.”

“The unsung scene-stealer of Hacks is Kaitlin Olson, who plays DJ, Deborah's lovably moronic faildaughter.”

“With two episodes left, the dice seem loaded for the second outcome: Failsons and a faildaughter lose⟳ their company and, oops, bring⟳ down the American republic along the way.”

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