Citations:Fleabag era

Noun: "(Internet slang) a period in a woman's life characterized by cynicism, despondency, and self-destructive behaviour"

 * 2022, Saskia Kirkegaard, "Why Being In Your 'Fleabag Era' Isn't A Flex: The Romanticisation Of Women's Suffering On TikTok", That's What She Said, 25 January 2022:
 * Coming out of my own ‘Fleabag era’ was the best thing I’ve done for my mental health.
 * 2022, Rida Chaudhry, "Girlboss too close to the sun", The Queen's Journal (Queen's University, Kingston, ON), 4 February 2022, page 11:
 * After the girlboss era we've entered a niche type of feminism, wherein we're more comfortable with self-destruction. It's our flop era, it's our year of rest and relaxation, it's our Fleabag era.
 * 2022, Quynh Anh Tong, "Manic femininity", The State News (Michigan State University), 19 February 2022:
 * Nowadays, a casual reference of being in your ‘Fleabag’ era or your ‘Reputation’ era is thrown around every 10 tweets or so.
 * 2022, Courtney Squires, "On becoming the It-Girl" (satirical article), The McGill Tribune (McGill University), 29 March 2022, page 14:
 * You'll roll your eyes and meet the lens of an imaginary camera: You're in your Fleabag era.
 * 2022, Hannah Hernández, "The Mirrored Threat", Blush Magazine, Spring/Summer 2022, page 98:
 * The distinct binary between these seemingly light-hearted, trendy personality labels is that the "Fleabag era" completely shuts our existence down to a deep, black pit, one that lacks control and real empowerment in our world.
 * 2022, Michaela Elizabeth Flaherty, "'And We're Happy, So Happy, to Be Modern Women': Dissociative Feminism on Screen and in Literature", thesis submitted to the University of Connecticut on 1 May 2022, page 34:
 * This user’s understanding of being in their Fleabag Era involves embracing feminine pain, even quoting Belinda’s monologue.
 * 2022, Reya Hedaya, Emma Joing, & Marilyn Yin, "Desired Disssociation", C Magazine, May 2022, page 31:
 * Many dissociated feminists have refered [sic] to their state of hopelessness and cynicism as their "Fleabag era," relating to Fleabag's own self destructive behavior.
 * 2022, Roisin Lanigan, "Are you a femcel?", i-D, 16 June 2022:
 * On Spotify, there’s an overlap with the femcel culture meme and our current era of ‘feral girl summer’ with endless playlists called things like ‘female manipulator anthems’ and ‘songs for your fleabag era’.
 * 2022, Jessica M. Goldstein, "Down and out and extremely online? No problem: Just enter a new ‘era.’", The Washington Post, 22 August 2022:
 * A cheekily named “era” undercuts whatever hardship gives it shape: Why say you’re overwhelmed by grief, money troubles or loneliness (sad, embarrassing) when you could be in your “Fleabag era” (chic, cool)?
 * 2022, Anna Devine, "The 'Fleabag Era' and identity clubs on TikTok", The Mac Weekly (Macalester College, St Paul, MN), 27 October 2022:
 * If you frequent the same side of TikTok as I do, you may have seen viral videos created by young women captioned with phrases such as “men will never understand what it’s like to be in your Fleabag era” and “the feminine urge“ to engage in various destructive behaviors.
 * 2022, Lucy Perrone, "i wish the world ended in 2012", SHEI Magazine, November 2022, page 27:
 * So, I am in my fleabag era (derogatory)! My pain is for consumption so that I don't have to really feel it. My unhinged, glorified diary entries are for future generations to feast their eyes on the trials and tribulations of my adolescent years.
 * 2022, Blanca Schofield, "The second meaning behind Taylor Swift’s Eras tour name", The Times (UK), 2 November 2022:
 * Behaving chaotically? You’re in your “Fleabag era”. Vengeful? It’s your “Reputation era” (named after Swift’s darker 2017 album). My favourite, however, is actually found on Twitter: the “slut era” trend. Usually used ironically, it has inspired gems such as: “‘I’m in my slut era,’ I whisper to myself as I curl up for a little nap.”
 * 2023, Menal Siddiqui, "The End of My Fleabag Era", Unpublished Zine, 6 February 2023:
 * I will no longer be in my Fleabag era, and I refuse to be a woman deranged. I will love this world. I implore you to do the same.