Sophie Gilbert

Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

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I've always wondered why people diminish girlhood as somehow cosseted or twee, when the reality of coming-of-age as a young woman is so raw, filled with emotional violence and literal blood.

She doesn't explicitly tie this to art as a galvanizing rce. In but I will. The Romantic movement of the nineteenth cent entury, which celebrated chivalry, beauty, love, and emotion, arguably and with wisd was hap set a path for twentieth-century feminism by encouraging the perception of women as full human beings, not just commodi- ties. On the flip side, the waning of romantic comnedies in the early 2000sand the boom in movies that fetishized male bonding, fraternal quests, and juvenile misogyny-may have led to women's seeming less human and less worthy of love and respect. By extension, is it surprising that the creator of a real- ity series that treats women as interchangeable, identikit trophy brides was issued a restraining order for allegedly attacking his pregnant wife? Is it strange that a generation raised on violent, dehumanizing pornography has trouble forming meaningful has trouble forming intimate relationships and is increasingly eschewing both romantic love and sex altogether?

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