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Many an artist has tried to answer the age-old question of what it means to be a woman. Gwen Stefani sang "I'm just a girl" with sustained sarcasm, Britney Spears explored where the line is between girlhood and womanhood. And even now, in 2024, Charli XCX still hasn't found the answer to why it's so confusing to be a girl.
The Girls Instagram page is doing similar work, but through funny relatable content. A veteran meme account, created in 2015 and still going strong with more then seven million fans, it's proof that sometimes girls just want to have fun while scrolling through some funny memes.
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Steve Robert 1 year ago
I hate face timing. The last thing I need is to be presentable just to talk to someone. But to each his own.
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So many things lately seem to be for girls: dinner, math, even the men we're collectively crushing on get the highest honor of being baby girls. The word "girl" has become a suffix online that one can use with almost anything: hot girl summer, hot girl walk, girlypops (as in friends), girl-coded, and so on.
However, some argue that these kinds of terms can be icky and infantilizing. Lillian Stone writes for the BBC that there's nothing inherently gendered about these things. Girl dinner is just snacks and side dishes thrown into a "meal." Hot girl walks are just that, simply talking walks.
Critics agree that "girly" trends can build community and drive positive conversation. Professor of marketing Shilpa Madan explains that they fulfill a need to belong. "As human beings, we have an innate desire to belong to social groups. When something is labeled as a 'girl' thing, it creates an immediate sense of relatability, fostering a feeling of community and shared sisterhood."
In that way. even the memes in this list labeled as relatable for girls are similar. Critics also warn that these types of trends reinforce harmful gender stereotypes. It's almost similar to razors and their pink tax or the giant Stanley Tumbler trend. If there's something "girly," capitalism is sure to jump on it immediately.
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Kali Chaos 1 year ago
My husband is sick rn so I've been sleeping on the couch with the dogs so he can get some uninterrupted rest, and I slept so well last night.
Rebecca Jennings argues that these trends are not trends at all but marketing campaigns. She says women on social media dub things "girl dinner" and "hot girl walks" because they know it has the potential to go viral.
"In other words, women on TikTok are thinking like the marketing teams at Simon & Schuster, analyzing the data and determining which cute name for an otherwise uninteresting habit or aesthetic has the most likelihood of going viral," Jennings writes.
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Feathered Dinosaur 1 year ago
Being aromantic and with a touch of autism... yes, please. It doesn't happen often enough though
Jennings also proposes an interesting idea: that being a "girl" means self-actualization. She draws from Robin Wasserman's 2016 essay "What Does It Mean When We Call Women Girls?" and suggests that in a lot of popular culture, women are "girls" when they're on the road to self-discovery. They're not yet wives or mothers, they're still transitioning from girlhood to womanhood.
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Becca not Becky 1 year ago
You'll be amazed at how much info you can get when you use this correctly
Similarly, in The Girl on the Train, the main character is, as Wasserman notes, "unmoored," just like the girls on HBO's hit show. She is a wife erased by marriage, and when she loses her identity as a wife, she's no longer a woman. Or, as Wasserman writes, "no one at all."
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Dumb teenager 1 year ago
Only if you keep it to yourself. Some people will go to great lengths to make sure that no matter how miserable they are, everyone around them feels worse
But, alas, we may be looking too deep into things. Maybe Pedro Pascal being a "baby girl" and us labeling ourselves as "strawberry girls" is just a way to have some harmless, unserious fun. And maybe fight the term's misogynistic undercurrent? As the host of the podcast "Adulting" Oenone Forbat told USA Today, these types of trends can be a "reclamation of feminine energy."
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keyboardtek 1 year ago
My latest plot twist is my PSA level in my latest blood test puts me in the 25% chance of having prostate cancer. But the test is so inaccurate. It is like someone suddenly walks up to me with a six shooter pointed at my head and tells me there is a bullet in one chamber. But we don't know if the bullet is a blank or live. To find out we have to stick a needle up your a*s and take a dozen samples of your prostate gland. Positively primitive medicine.
We're empowering ourselves through being lazy with "girlrotting" or looking for "lazy girl jobs." Gone is the aesthetic of the early 2020s where women showcased daily routines, healthy meal preps, and fashion inspo. "Reducing being a girl to a series of increasingly feral behaviors removes some of the term's baggage," Palmer Haasch writes for Business Insider.
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For the current generation on TikTok, "girl" might no longer be infantalizing, pejorative, or even empowering. "As self-described girls online assert ownership of Pilates and iced lattes as well as 'Ulysses,' irritable bowel syndrome and tinned fish, so-called girl culture might just be the ruling order," Marie Solis writes for The New York Times.
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Eric Williams 1 year ago
Such a simple act and yet such enormous satisfaction. Then comes the anticipation! Then comes..."Oh God, I hope it fits!!"
But we here at Bored Panda don't discriminate. We cover girl memes and men's humor, we showcase hilarious boyfriends and husbands and funny wives and girlfriends as well. Don't forget to upvote your favorites here and then head over to the other posts to see more!
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AtMostAFabulist 1 year ago
Agreed. I got paid today and it's mostly gone already. And yet, I need a new jacket.
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Colleen Glim 1 year ago
In my next life, I’m coming back as a house cat. I can sleep all day and nobody expects anything more than that from me
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FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
I would say that this looks like the blind, leading the blind, but I can't quite make out what's going on in this, due to my lack of vision.
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DaisyBee 1 year ago (edited)
Literally told my boss once when I was stressed about a project “let me just lie face down on the floor and scream for 15 mins, then I’ll solve it all.” And I did. Although the screaming face down on the floor was more just pouting in the corner while my favorite coworker showed me pictures of his dog. The floor didn’t look all that clean…
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PrettyJoyBird 1 year ago
I am at the age where unless its necessary i know, dont tell me or involve me. Please & Thanks.
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Sandella 1 year ago
I'm so sick of forever being the person who remembers, and having no on vother reciprocate. After years of this I now have to smother the side of me that takes notes of things and cares, and remembers important dates to people until someone finally bothers to do it back, hmph
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Kali Chaos 1 year ago
And me, realizing that spending all my money to impress people that don't pay me is not as valuable as rent or groceries.
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Pittsburgh rare 1 year ago (edited)
God, yes. I'm an old feminist and can't stand the whole "girl" tropes
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_-DungeonKeeper-_ 1 year ago
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Lyone Fein 1 year ago
Why do you think womens memes resonate with so many people? Because the majority of people on the planet are women.
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Pittsburgh rare 1 year ago (edited)
God, yes. I'm an old feminist and can't stand the whole "girl" tropes
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I was in the middle of this list and it said "continue reading with bored panda permium" what the f k
Lyone Fein 1 year ago
Why do you think womens memes resonate with so many people? Because the majority of people on the planet are women.
Elvira394 1 year ago
I admit that I like bored panda in spite of its excessively liberal bent. And I would turn my ad blocker off to support the site if I could actually read even a single article when its ads are running without constant glitching and reloading. But I’m not going to pay to see memes and silly cat pictures. I can’t believe they want a subscription now. What product exactly am I buying? Most of the articles are just reposted from Reddit directly it’s not even original content except all the conservative-bashing comment sections. I didn’t really want to try and find a new time killer website, but it looks like it’s finally time I’ll have to.
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