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“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.
Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled
because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long
time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men – friends, coworkers,
strangers – giddy over these awful pretender women, and I’d want to sit
these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are
dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially
awkward men who’d like to believe that this kind of woman exists and
might kiss them. I’d want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or
messenger bag and say: The bitch doesn’t really love chili dogs that
much – no one loves chili dogs that much! And the Cool Girls are even
more pathetic: They’re not even pretending to be the woman they want to
be, they’re pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be. Oh, and
if you’re not a Cool Girl, I beg you not to believe that your man
doesn’t want the Cool Girl. It may be a slightly different version –
maybe he’s a vegetarian, so Cool Girl loves seitan and is great with
dogs; or maybe he’s a hipster artist, so Cool Girl is a tattooed,
bespectacled nerd who loves comics. There are variations to the window
dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl
who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn’t ever complain. (How
do you know you’re not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: “I like
strong women.” If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck
someone else. Because “I like strong women” is code for “I hate strong
women.”)”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
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