The Girls' Girl: Sister Solidarity or Sister Surveillance?

The "Girl's Girl" is the ultimate woman who supports women...or is she?

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Chapters:
1:06 It’s a girls’ girl world
17:00 Decoding “Girl Code”
41:05 In defence: The Girls’ Girl™ v Girl Code™
58:16 Sister Surveillance AKA “The Girlfriend Gaze”
1:18:43 The Linguistics of it all
1:24:54 So…is it feminism?
1:30:54 Patrons & Subscription Pet Shoutout ?

Sources (in order of appearance):

Videos:
1. @Shanspeare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaKs8iJpG6c&t=1198s
2. & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDEOZqnJMqI
3. @elleliteracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLXKgq9eNas
4. @sophjbutler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib5cElquZ8Y&t=1542s
5. @jordanatheresa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDu4e6--NlA&t=1286s

TV:
1. Unfabulous S1 E10
2. Love Island UK S5
3. Gilmore Girls S1 E21
4. AlRawabi School for Girls S1 E4
5. Sex & the City (mentioned)
6. The Bold Type (mentioned)

Films:
1. The Princess Diaries (2001)
2. A Cinderella Story (2004)
3. Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008)
4. Freaky Friday (2003)

Songs:
1. @TaylorSwift https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuNIsY6JdUw
2. @paramore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCyGvGEtOwc
3. @AvrilLavigne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg59q4puhmg
4. @ThePussycatDolls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg59q4puhmg
5. @KatyPerry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVIJUH29pjU

Articles:
1. https://theeverygirl.com/what-it-means-to-be-girls-girl/
2. https://universitygirlsu.com/feelgood/2023/10/26/whats-a-girls-girl
3. https://mashable.com/article/girls-girl-meaning-taylor-swift
4. https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/signs-youre-a-girls-girl_n_5072553
5. https://weirdmedievalguys.substack.com/p/the-coolest-medieval-woman-youve
6. https://feeld.co/ask-feeld/how-to/what-is-a-girls-girl
7. https://www.elle.com/life-love/sex-relationships/a46663705/not-a-girls-girl-insult-explained/
8. https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1212&context=gc_pubs
9. https://www.bbc.co.uk/worklife/article/20230823-girl-trends-are-sticky-and-fun-but-they-can-also-be-problematic
10. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006m3m
11. https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/relationships/a36997244/girl-code/
12. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bro_Code
13. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BrosBeforeHoes
14. https://www.reddit.com/r/AutismInWomen/comments/1iuj2p6/anyone_else_not_a_girls_girl/
15. https://theconversation.com/the-myth-that-women-secretly-hate-other-women-has-a-long-history-47919
16. https://www.thecourieronline.co.uk/what-is-a-girls-girl/
17. https://elizabethbrake.com/amatonormativity/
18. https://www.hercampus.com/school/gcu/what-it-means-to-be-a-girls-girl/
19. https://www.anabelmagazine.com/news/79767/cfare-do-te-thote-te-jesh-nje-girl-s-girl-dhe-pse-eshte-kaq-e-rendesishme
20. https://www.stylist.co.uk/life/girls-girl-meaning-why-we-judge-other-women/863098
21. https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/62418/1/girl-s-girl-feminism-is-bullshit-pick-me
22. https://mega-asia.com/lifestyle/culture/all-the-things-a-girls-girl-would-never-do/
23. https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/32186/
24. https://news-archive.hud.ac.uk/news/allstories/thegirlfriendgaze-20march2013.php
25. https://styledbyuna.substack.com/p/the-problem-with-girls-girl

Xtra sources:
1. https://medium.com/@IsThatHer/the-girl-code-c222adf89011
2. https://www.willistonian.org/ten-unbreakable-rules-of-girl-code/
3. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/girl-code-olivia-wilde-harry-styles-emily-ratajkowski-b2327988.html
4. https://www.adventurebook.com/connect/girl-code/
5. https://thoughtcatalog.com/rachel-anna/2016/03/50-rules-of-girl-code-we-all-need-to-read-again/
6. https://www.stylist.co.uk/life/love-island-megan-hanson-wes-nelson-casa-amor-girl-code-cheat/214619
7. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Girl%27s%20girl
8. https://medium.com/counterarts/neo-feminism-demands-you-become-a-girls-girl-c99ac6f7afd4
9. https://www.wikihow.com/Be-a-Girl%27s-Girl
10. https://www.queensjournal.ca/stop-buying-the-girls-girl-myth/
11. https://metro.co.uk/2023/08/04/can-you-ever-trust-a-woman-whos-not-a-girls-girl-19267660/
12. https://inews.co.uk/opinion/the-girls-girl-is-no-friend-to-women-3264699?srsltid=AfmBOorAK2y54R8DukIjAmlbYal9GsvxoWdAt8KY6sB0_qxhaot8UWbR
13. https://www.buzzfeed.com/dannicaramirez/signs-of-not-being-a-girls-girl
14. https://tinyurl.com/3snkhddt
15. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1226&context=sigma
16. https://tinyurl.com/yyj5xykt
17. https://www.hercampus.com/school/bu/girls-support-girls-reductive-or-revolutionary/
18. https://theboar.org/2024/06/shes-a-girls-girl/

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