![]() I think that a lot of second and third wave feminists would look at this sort of collection of trends and see a group of people that are using a word that has long been used to diminish their power and accomplishments in nearly every arena of their lives.īut I think there’s a huge difference when someone is calling you a girl and when you’re calling yourself a girl or your behavior “girl-like.” Ultimately, the idea that you are out having your girl dinner and you are creating it for yourself is very different than a man in a boardroom saying, “Girl, sit down. If boys are invited, they’re largely as accessories to a experience that’s focused on feminine life.įor much of my adult life, I’ve heard women chafing against the idea of being called a girl. and reconnecting with the sort of girlhood associations of that toy. We’ve been going to see “Barbie”- archived recording 6 We’ve also been doing things outside with our other girlies. When we haven’t been hot girl walking, we have been girl rotting or laying in our beds and doing nothing for hours and hours on end. No men, no boys, no parents telling you what you need to do, no taking care of your families, and nothing about your kids. Your goals and how you want to achieve them, and how hot you are. We’ve been going out on hot girl walks, something that the creator, Mia Lind, has described as a miles-long walk in which you think about only three things - the things you’re grateful for. We’ve been having our hot girl dinners, as I mentioned. But it feeds into an overarching trend that I’ve noticed over the past couple of years among young millennials and my fellow Zoomers, which is a tendency, for those of us who are women, to refer to ourselves as “girls” when we’re engaging in activities that don’t involve the male gaze. Like as internet things go, it lived and died in the span of a week. It sort of sparked this interesting thought process for me in that we have a lot of women that when they’re consuming something that they haven’t had to work over and they’re not producing for other people, they associate it with this idea of being a girl, not being a woman.Īnd of course, the trend is already passé. There was no labor involved in what they were consuming. anna marksĪnd the only constraints for what seemed to make these things qualify as a girl dinner was that they were the kinds of foods that women were eating alone. Sardines and pickles or just an onion, sometimes leftover ice cream in the freezer. Now, these, honestly, often looked like fancy charcuterie boards, but there was also a big component of people that were showing off kind of weird, odd collections of food. (SINGING) Girl dinner, girl dinner, girl dinner, girl, girl dinner. I want to stand in front of the cupboard like a feral raccoon, and I want to eat every single thing inside. and saying that those things were their girl dinner. were pulling their own things out of their fridges - archived recording 1Īnnie’s mac and cheese, some pretzels, and frozen mango. I call this “girl dinner.” anna marksĪnd soon, as all internet trends go, a bunch of women all over the US and across the world - archived recording 1 made a video where she basically pulled a bunch of things out of her fridge, said she was having them for dinner, and said - archived recording (olivia maher) ![]() I was literally standing at my counter, hair’s a mess, eating cheese and grapes, and I was like, I cannot be the only person that does this. This summer, I think in July, a creator named Olivia Maher - archived recording (olivia maher) I’m a staff editor in Opinion, and I edit a lot of pieces on culture and the way we live now and Gen Z. Instead of being yet another sign of antifeminist, self-infantilization, I’d argue that associating these activities with the idea of girlhood is a way of expressing a yearning for freedom that we have been longing for in the midst of a mounting backlash against our rights. So you may have heard about girl dinner, hot girl walks, girl rotting. I’ve been following pretty closely a collection of online trends of adding “girl” to all sorts of things. Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email with any questions. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. This transcript was created using speech recognition software. Transcript To Find Freedom, Gen Z Women Are Looking Back to Girlhood Could a TikTok trend start a political movement? T06:00:20-04:00
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