Social Determinants
The increasing prevalence of the girlie girl in the early 21st century has been linked to the post-feminist, post-New man construction of masculinity and femininity in mutually exclusive terms, as opposed to the more blurred gender representations of previous decades.
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“Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self- employment and artistic autonomy.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)