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Thursday, July 24, 2025

#SquadGoals

Do you have a #GirlSquad? What are your ultimate #SquadGoals? Do you have any idea what I am even talking about?

Let me explain.

By legal definition, or what I like to call urbandictionary.com, a “girl squad” is “a crew, posse, and gang: an informal group of girls with a common identity and a sense of solidarity.” This hashtag has been made extremely popular because of Taylor Swift and her insanely unrealistic girl squad parading around on Instagram, posting photos of them together in their gorgeous celeb lives, in which no one reading this article has and who have reached the epitome of being a girl squad, better known as #SquadGoals.

Being the pop culture genius I am (self-proclaimed), I have been tracking this trend and have been trying to figure out and analyze why so many young women look to this trend to achieve what they want for their own group of friends.

Some think Swift’s girl squad represents feminism and beauty. I think it represents a group of over-exposed celebrities that ban together for their own benefit, formerly called publicity.

Day after day, new members enter Swift’s squad, all being models, singers and actresses and all young women think about is “that is what I want my squad to be like.”

But I want to bring people who are looking to those women to achieve their #SquadGoals back down to Earth.  The real and honest deal, is that squad goals like theirs can never be achieved and should not be. These women barely see each other because they are always traveling, shooting television shows, modeling at photoshoots and doing other celebrity things.

The type of squad we should strive for is a squad that you can bond with and that is real and not just for the cute pictures, the fun parties and the fame. Girl squads are more than what Swift and her friends make them appear to be.

They are drama, they are fun and most importantly they are supportive. Girl squads are regular women that you can call up on speed dial to go out to eat with, cry to when you broke up with your boyfriend or just sit around and watch Netflix with you all day.

But do not think that Swift’s girl squad is not short of amazing. Any girl squad is cool. Any women who want to be there for each other and share the stage with each other is a pretty damn good thing.  But, my point here with this article is to discourage young women from looking at this squad as the goal for their squad. 

Know that your squad is just as famous, beautiful and inspiring as Swift’s. Also know that you do not have to be rich, famous, and beautiful to reach your #SquadGoals. All you need are gorgeous women on the inside to parade around with, not for Instagram or to start some stupid trend, but for the sheer joy of being with each other and being happy.

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