To Find Freedom, Gen Z Women Are Looking Back to Girlhood

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  Anna Marks: I've been following pretty closely a collection of online trends

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  of adding 'girl' to all sorts of things.

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  So you may have heard about girl dinner,

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  hot girl walks,

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  girl rotting.

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  Instead of being yet another sign of antifeminist, self–infantilization,

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  I'd argue that associating these activities with the idea of girlhood

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  is a way of expressing a yearning for freedom

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  that we have been longing for

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  in the midst of a mounting backlash against our rights.

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  I'm Anna Marks.

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  I'm a staff editor in Opinion,

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  and I edit a lot of pieces on culture

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  and the way we live now and Gen Z.

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  This summer, I think in July,

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  a creator named Olivia Maher —

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  Archived Recording (olivia Maher): I was literally standing at my counter, hair's a mess,

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  eating cheese and grapes, and I was like,

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