Just think about the “cool girl” monologue from the movie/book Gone Girl, delivered by the antiheroine Amy Dunne, who fakes her own murder and frames her husband when she discovers he’s been cheating on her even after she uprooted her life to move to his hometown in Missouri with him. As Amy describes her, the “cool girl” adores sports, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, plays video games, and drinks cheap beer. Is understanding. Never gets angry. Just smiles in a chagrined, loving manner and lets men do whatever they want. To me, though, the most striking part of this monologue is the moment
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