“I want a guy who can play 36 holes of golf, and still have enough energy to take Warren and me to a baseball game, and eat sausages, and beer, not lite beer, but BEER.” She adores her co-star Ben Stiller. Mary, a doctor, plays golf every morning and loves hamburgers and beer. She admires her love interest’s slobby clothes, describing him as “a little different.” Take Cameron Diaz’s character in “There’s Something About Mary.” She is slim, blonde, bright and effortlessly beautiful with a wide smile and an easygoing personality. “Be chill and don’t be a downer, act like a dude but look like a supermodel,” she says. However, in the case of the Cool Girl, stereotypically male traits are only attractive in women when they are, well, attractive.Īs writer Anne Helen Peterson said, a defining trait of the Cool Girl is her aloofness and effortless beauty. If all women with such traits were accepted, regardless of size or appearance, the world would be a better place. The problem with the Cool Girl isn’t her humor, her love of food, drink or other male-associated traits such as sports and wrestling. It is amazing that they can function and, without any exercise or dieting, remain incredibly slim on diets of takeout pizza, coffee and candy. It’s amazing that we still function,” Rory says as she and Lorelai fill up on sweets. The Cool Girl can also be seen in TV shows such as “Gilmore Girls.” Main characters Lorelai and Rory eat enough food to weigh 400 pounds. And I tape these suckers down ‘cause they just get in my way.” ‘Cause I can belch the alphabet - just double dog dare me. Or Katy Perry insisting she is the better choice over other girls. Think Jennifer Lawrence’s interviews discussing her ability to eat steak, McDonalds and anything else all while maintaining perfect skin and a small waist. While the Cool Girl often exists as a character trope, her image can also be seen in many modern actresses. “But I was a good runner, I could beat most of the boys and I could pitch.” I never had a doll in all my life,” Bow said. I never had any use for girls and their games. As a child she played with boys and avoided typically feminine activities. This beautiful, talented actress cared little for the Hollywood spotlight. She drank, danced and drove cars with boys in the film “Dancing Mothers.” With the movie “It” she became a worldwide star and the original Cool Girl. She flirted with famous actors such as young John Wayne. The Cool Girl first became popular with 1920s flapper and actress Clara Bow. She is effortlessly thin, beautiful and, most importantly, “she’s not like other girls.” These women can be seen in several films, including Cameron Diaz’s character in “There’s Something About Mary,” Megan Fox’s character in “Transformers,” Sloane from “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” Mila Kunis in “Black Swan,” Charlize Theron’s character in “A Million Ways to Die in the West,” Robin Scherbatsky from “How I Met Your Mother,” Mila Kunis’s character in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and even Katy Perry in her song “One of the Boys,” just to name a few. The Cool Girl is an established character type who likes everything her male counterpart does and agrees with everything he says.
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