Girlhood has not been a euphoric experience of late. The same fans who’ve been streaming into massive arenas headlined by Taylor Swift and Beyoncé have fewer liberties than their mothers did.
If the current wave of feminism"is predicated on a bunch of people who are choosing the escape of being a girl over the hard labor of being a woman," she writes,"the constraint around womanhood is not going to change."
How else might we be rallied? What else could we do if we decided to get organized and band together?or Beyoncé share the same politics, Murray points out. But it’s worth thinking about what has driven girls—so minimized and degraded—to spend these hot months seeking refuge in spaces that declare without hesitation that girls matter and their tastes and passions deserve attention.
The authors contend that Beatlemania was “the first and most dramatic uprising of women’s sexual revolution.” In a repressive era, it gave girls permission to “abandon control—to scream, faint, dash about in mobs.” It put them in touch with their desires. When the screaming girls grew up, some of them became second-wave feminists. Maybe they had learned to like the sound of their own voices. Maybe this generation will too.
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