Thriller author Gillian Flynn didn't invent the "cool girl," but she did codify her. She writes in her mindfuck crime novel Gone 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." And then the kicker: "Men actually think this girl exists." So do women screenwriters. In Netflix's cranky romantic comedy Holidate, Emma Roberts personifies a Cool Girl who's less defined by her supposedly transgressive.
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