"You Go Girl"

Could it be that this phrase, so assumed to imply a sense of unity and encouragement within "the sisterhood," started off as a command that the other leave the speaker alone?

To a crowd in the break room, 1983(?): "Can you believe I just told my man what was what? He had it coming. His head is still spinning and it'll be days before I even think about giving him my business."

"Yeah."

"Right on."

"Tell that story."

"You got him."

"Keep laying it down."

And then, hoping it all would end, and pointing at the door, "You. Go girl."

The others, misinterpreting into indelibility, turning their attention to this neologism: "Oooh yeah."

"Keep it sassy."

"Make it stick like it's never gonna leave."

"That's out the door."

You may think this is moot. That this phrase has gone the way of the pet rock. Wrong--all of you.
Though I wish it were so.