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 ...

In a nutshell, subconsciously or intentionally, a ‘pick-me girl’s’ hope is to garner attention from the men she knows by ...

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 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.