If the girlified, infantilised universe had a monarch it would be the Cool Girl. In the summer of 2013, as Gillian Flynn prepared to release her bestselling novel Gone Girl in paperback, the Cool Girl ...

Cool Girl is fun. Cool Girl never gets angry at her man. She only smiles in a chagrin-loving manner and then presents her mouth for fucking.” In many ways, this monologue is an implicit way of ...

The Cool Girl monologue is its own being, a growth on its mother culture. It’s often at the forefront of Gone Girl speak and deservedly so; its implications are widely important and border on ...

On TikTok alone #coolgirl has 3.1million posts and modern monologues about womanhood (see America Ferrara’s divisive Barbie speech) are measured by cool girl’s yardstick. @bowling42069 Thats all x ...

When Amy's true intentions are finally revealed, she delivers a scathing critique of the exhausting performance women are expected to put on for men in what's now known as the "cool girl monologue ...

The “cool girl thing” Flynn refers to is a monologue recited by Amy in her diary entry, in which she dissects the contradictions existing among men and women on how to behave.

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 ...

Heaven forbid: Carrie Coon is about to become Hollywood’s “Cool Girl.” But it’s not the kind of Cool Girl made famous in "Gone Girl," Gillian Flynn's bestselling book — the kind of woman ...

The cool girl is the ultimate male fantasy: sexy, fun, never threatening the male ego. Before Gone Girl, the cool girl was a character we all recognised but didn't question.