Fleabag era

English

Etymology

Coined with reference to Fleabag, a British dark comedy television series centering on an angry, impulsive anti-heroine, in combination with the TikTok trend of referring to a life phase as an era (compare flop era).^[1]^[2]

Noun

Fleabag era (plural Fleabag eras)

(Internet slang) A period in a woman's life characterized by cynicism, despondency, and self-destructive behaviour.
- 2022 January 25, Saskia Kirkegaard, “Why Being In Your 'Fleabag Era' Isn't A Flex: The Romanticisation Of Women's Suffering On TikTok”, in That's What She Said:
  Coming out of my own ‘Fleabag era’ was the best thing I’ve done for my mental health.
- 2022 August 22, Jessica M. Goldstein, “Down and out and extremely online? No problem: Just enter a new ‘era.’”, in The Washington Post:
  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)?
- 2023 February 6, Menal Siddiqui, “The End of My Fleabag Era”, in Unpublished Zine:
  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.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Fleabag era.

Related terms

flop era

References

^ Anna Devine, "The 'Fleabag Era' and identity clubs on TikTok", The Mac Weekly, 27 October 2022
^ Jessica M. Goldstein, "Down and out and extremely online? No problem: Just enter a new ‘era.’", The Washington Post, 22 August 2022

[1] Anna Devine, "The 'Fleabag Era' and identity clubs on TikTok", The Mac Weekly, 27 October 2022

[2] Jessica M. Goldstein, "Down and out and extremely online? No problem: Just enter a new ‘era.’", The Washington Post, 22 August 2022

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