faildaughter

English

Etymology

Compound of fail +‎ daughter by analogy with earlier failson.

Noun

faildaughter (plural faildaughters)

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

   Coordinate term: failson

   • 2018 October 25, Noreen Malone, “Profile: Red Scare Podcast”, in The Cut‎^[1], archived from the original on 2023-05-11:

     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.

   • 2019 March 12, Eric Levitz, “All College Admissions Are a Pay-to-Play Scandal”, in New York Magazine‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: Vox Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-07:

     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.

   • 2019 June 7, Harry Cheadle, “A Few Ideas for Those Rich People Who Have More Money Than They Can Spend”, in VICE‎^[3], archived from the original on 2023-02-28:

     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.

   • 2022 May 12, Jael Goldfine, “Hacks Season-Premiere Recap: Good-bye, Las Vegas”, in Vulture‎^[4], archived from the original on 2022-11-12:

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

   • 2023 May 19, Ross Douthat, “Why ’Succession’ Is a Work of Fantasy”, in The New York Times‎^[5], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-19:

     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.

See also

• failure to launch