Is The Girl-ification Of Everything Anti-Feminist? Is The Girl-ification Of Everything Anti-Feminist? - it's the great debate
Photo by RF Studio / PexelsGirlhood is beautiful. Being a girl is beautiful! The recent explosion of love for femininity and general ‘girliness’ through film, art and culture is such a wonderful thing. I think back on the internalised misogyny of my teens and despair at how much I tried to suppress the little girl that I was then; turning my nose up at anything inherently girly in order to prove that I was ‘valuable’.
It feels like a sneaky way of promoting traditional attitudes toward women’s supposed ‘place in the world’. I’ve noticed that the girl maths meme always seems to be Womanhood or girlhood is such a unifying experience and I think that needs to be celebrated. Like with all trends, things go too far and my eye will twitch when I see people try to explain complex issues with ‘girl politics’ and start describing a house party as an analogy for war.
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