Gayitri Ramesh’s Reviews > Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves > Status Update

Intro page x : “More crucially, the kind of power being fetishized in popular culture on the cusp of the twenty-first century wasn’t the sort you accrue over a lifetime, in the manner of education or money or professional experience. It was all about youth, attention, and a willingness to be in on the joke, even if we were ultimately the punch line.”