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« Why can't we teach the "nice" history? | Main | There's Glory For You » Fake Geek Girl Rehash?I haven't read Gone Girl, but i've read the "Cool Girl" rant that's in the book, and it sounds like a rehash of the "Fake Geek Girl" meme, which is completely offensive. It's assuming that a woman who likes things associated with so-called "straight male interests" has no agency and no independent opinion - that she only professes to like these things in order to make herself appear more appealing to men. I'm calling bullshit. "Men always say that as the defining compliment, don't they? She's a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she's hosting the world's biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don't mind, I'm the Cool Girl. Also, it's a rant coming from a character in the book who turns out to be a horrible crazy person, thus undermining the validity of the argument anyway. So why are women giving this rant the thumbs up? By min | October 4, 2014, 3:00 PM | Boooooks & Liberal Outrage CommentsRe-reading that has made me think again. There are certainly women who are into all that 'cool' stuff but perhaps there aren't that many so women think other women who are into 'cool' things are faking it. Do you think the rant plays into the ideas that SOME women have that all men want a woman to be obedient? Well, this isn't the first time women gave a rant we're supposed to dislike the thumbs up. I've seen several women defend Sarah Connor's "men who build things" rant when the entire point of that scene is that Sarah's becoming as inhuman as Skynet and Sarah doesn't want to admit that the reason that men build those horrible things is that they convince themselves it's necessary to protect their families, just like Sarah is doing. |