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 ...

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 ...

I discovered my womanhood through Amy Dunne’s “cool girl” monologue from the movie “Gone Girl” (arguably pretty late in life). The “cool girl” monologue didn’t tell me I was a woman as such but ...

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 ...

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.

Tove Lo has debuted her 'Gone Girl'-inspired new song "Cool Girl," the lead single off her upcoming as-yet-untitled sophomore album.

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 ...

Nowadays, the Gone Girl monologue has reached cult-like status. While the cool-girl trope still creeps in occasionally, women are now in on the joke. TikTok skits parody the trope with skateboards ...

This story originally appeared on Mental Floss.. Gillian Flynn's "Gone Girl" became a bona fide literary phenomenon when it was published in 2012: It spent 37 weeks at no. 1 on The New York Times ...