Log Off, Bitch
Everyone is rushing to prove they support women unconditionally and accuse others of falling short.
Madison Tayt recently dealt with some online blowback after her post saying Madison Beer had no charisma went viral.
She seems very beautiful.
Im not investing myself any further than that.
Still, Beer stans took issue with the post.
Their attack of choice?
Accusing Tayt of not being a girls girl.
The girls girls, it seems, have lost the plot.
But recently, the term has been weaponized.
(Calling a woman a bitch isnotgirls girl behavior.
This has all coincided, though not coincidentally, with an emphasis on girlhood in online and pop culture.
At the peak of it all, the girls girl!
Inthe year of the girl, girl partisanship became mandatory, and now the alternative is tantamount to treason.
Many of my friends told me theyd be devastated if they were deemed not a girls girl.
But shouldnt feminists beallowedto criticize women?
Is that not, in fact, an important element of feminism?
Its not about being a girl.
Its not about being a woman.
According to Banet-Weiser, the girls girl mentality is an example of what she calls popular feminism.
The politics of popular feminism are individual politics.
But theyre not addressing the sort of structural issues that make us feel unconfident to begin with.
While women supporting women is well and good, not everything we do as women is inherently feminist.
(And it shouldnt have to be!)
We seek only to beaffirmed in our actions, regardless of the consequences.
And yes, theres a long history of terms like this reductive labels that pit women against women.
Were all calling ourselves feminists, even if we dont quite know what that means.
Were still being petty and ganging up on each other, just wrapped in new language.
Speaking from personal experience, it stings to be told Im not a girls girl.
Look, I love women!
I took Feminist Philosophy in college!
I primarily read women authors!
I add women I dont even really know to my Instagram Close Friends list!
Also: Why not just call me a bitch?
