Everyone’s cool and now it’s boring.
“Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool 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. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl”. — Amy Elliott Dunne, fictional character from ‘Gone Girl’ Everyday my feeds on social media are filled with ‘cool girl recommendations’, from nails, to bags to even hobbies. We’ve managed to capitalise off of every aspect of our daily lives, so it makes me wonder: why do we care to be cool? The ‘cool girl’ has remained a well upheld arch...