Antecedents
An ancestral figure of the girlie girl was the womanly woman of the early 20th century, caricatured and attacked by the flapper as a "bundle of beautiful clothes... mass of affectations". An earlier term for a squeamish kind of ultra femininity was missish.
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“The conclusion suggested by these arguments might be called the paradox of theorizing. It asserts that if the terms and the general principles of a scientific theory serve their purpose, i. e., if they establish the definite connections among observable phenomena, then they can be dispensed with since any chain of laws and interpretive statements establishing such a connection should then be replaceable by a law which directly links observational antecedents to observational consequents.”
—C.G. (Carl Gustav)