For Stefani, that meant bending the mom/rock star dichotomy to focus directly on the "mom"; the tomboy glamour, the "girlish grunge," turned, at least in most public appearances, mostly girlish and glamorous.
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They even have Bond-girlish names, Tira Harpaz and Madchen Abplanalp.
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It made me feel powerful, invigorated, imbibed with a uniquely girlish magic.
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No-Nonsense, she also had a playful, even girlish, side to her.
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She was wearing those baby pink wigs and everything was so girlish.
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The women actually handle everything pretty well, with minimal shrieks and girlish screams.
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Stout and barrel-chested, she has a figure that few would call girlish.
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Ms. Damrau dispatched the aria with rosy sound, agile coloratura and girlish glee.
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As is the fascinating juxtaposition of her girlish voice and these dark sounds.
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Costa is 51 and girlish, with shoulder-length auburn hair and a wide smile.
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What really irks me is this perception that small equals girlish, delicate, dainty. Cute.
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I listened to the clips again, trying to figure out what seemed little-girlish.
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It's the voice only that's girlish, clear and fluting although also calm and composed.
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The record revealed a voice that could be girlish or grizzled, teasing or wrathful.
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In other situations it might have seemed a mannerism; here, it was adorably, appropriately girlish.
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Her globally sourced grooves, girlish smile and sinuous hips made her a music-video sensation.
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She not only avenges Silver's death, but escapes with her girlish wildness and independence intact.
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She often wore tube tops and short shorts, and styled her hair in a girlish bob.
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"I didn't even have time to think about it," she said in her breathy girlish voice.
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Was the 33-year-old Ms. Bell, in a girlish white dress, her long-ago self?
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Offstage, Calvi has the polite disposition of a college art teacher and an unexpectedly girlish voice.
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I am a great-grandma in my late 80s, not tall but with a girlish figure.
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"Her voice is high and girlish but not at all naïve," our critic Jon Pareles writes.
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At the same time, she engages her environment and few possessions in a specifically girlish way.
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"Do you really think we're good?" she asked, adopting a false, girlish uncertainty that was unlike her.
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A surprisingly girlish voice from the 1960s became a commanding and much-admired tone during her premiership.
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They have skinny chains looped around their abdomens, little shiny scars on their bellies, tiny girlish teeth.
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"[It's] puffy, romantic, girlish and fun rather than sophisticated and tough or obsessed with polish," she explains.
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She's a heroine whose girlish appearance and penchant for gummy sharks can't quite mask her steely resolve.
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Her voice is usually high and piping, conveying a girlish innocence that her lyrics often cheerfully belie.
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My Slutoon sources believe the disparity comes down to Pearl's more stuck-up personality and girlish appearance.
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Though Ms. Moore captured Katya's girlish effusions, she seemed less sure delving into the character's murky depths.
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I'd watched her rehearse the first scene of "Saint Joan," and her Joan had been determined, girlish, joyful.
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Giant pussy bows adorned many of the looks, lending a girlish, lighthearted counterbalance to the collection's dark drama.
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Even his mother fretted that he was "girlish," perhaps the worst insult in the testosterone-infused Kennedy household.
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A preponderance of baby pink, ruffles, bell sleeves and other girlish touches undermined any real power-feminist vibe.
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She stood by a window for light, applied bright lipstick and combed her hair into two girlish pigtails.
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Her high-pitched, girlish voice gave her a spacey, sometimes ditsy, quality that worked well in comic roles.
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Some are half-torn, others are as big as postcards, all of them narrowly filled in girlish handwriting.
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When we think of a scrunchie, we think of a girlish, frilly doohickey commonly housed in a Caboodles.
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You really seemed to be enjoying your life and on this giddy, very girlish physical, and emotional thrill ride.
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However, in private with her friends, she is fun, girlish, and mischievous and shows no difficulty letting her hair down.
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" When you take a firm hand and make key decisions, officials will wonder why the king entertains your "girlish ideas.
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He was exquisite, like a porcelain seabird: little and precious, breakable and girlish and puffed up beyond his physical dimensions.
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The City SlickerA strappy block-heel sandal and chain-strapped crossbody with painterly flowers are the most obvious girlish staples.
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Before that film, Bergman had given her roles "symbolizing simple, girlish things," she told The New York Times in 1977.
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Marie, here the young, penetrating soprano Asmik Grigorian, is a more girlish and irresponsible, less sympathetically maternal presence than usual.
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She was even better as the manipulator in "To Die For," playing a girlish spider whose flies had no chance.
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The pressures of the corset, along with massage, created surplus flesh on his chest which gave the promise of girlish breasts.
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I liked his face, so similar his mother's back then: open but shy, girlish except for that strong, almost horsey jaw.
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In any case, "Versailles in Hollywood sauce" is a girlish, dreamlike place like none other and should be celebrated as such.
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Impulsively, I wrote back a girlish note saying that I had, and a year later, she sent us a short story.
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In fact, both artists have endured homophobic taunts about being "girlish" (Beatles) or "soft" (Drake) because women backed their musical careers.
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But by 2 AM, I was still at his place hanging out; suddenly we hear girlish giggling at the front door.
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At 2014, she wears her choppy blonde hair in girlish bangs and has the surfer drawl of a native Southern Californian.
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This book shows how Victoria's girlish naughtiness turned into a regal, willful, complex nature that other biographers have tended to simplify.
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For Hiroshi, Risa seems to exist in opposition to his "most beautiful" female archetype: smart and impatient, not girlish, a free thinker.
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The sisters are now three years older, for one, and that meant losing, after much debate, Anna's signature braids, which skewed girlish.
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In Reagan's fantasy life, I guess, she fancies that the boat is also a horse, and falls in girlish love with it.
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Today, her voice has aged just beyond Belle's more girlish tones, but she does stay connected to the character through her artwork.
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Quivering with fear and rage in the title role, the soprano Brenda Rae acts and sounds girlish but somber, innocent but wounded.
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Her voice can be a girlish tease or a grunge scream, with its volatility matched by Ms. Laferte's flamboyantly theatrical stage presence.
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January LaVoy as Charlotte is charming, but it took me a minute to get used to her girlish voice in that maternal role.
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That idea lent itself to the hair, too, for which the hairstylist Guido Palau created a double play on girlish and boyish youthfulness.
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A MINUS Kyle: Light of Mine (Independently Popular/Atlantic) Best innocent act in r&b, with girlish female cameos nailing two fetching numbers.
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The music plods steadily forward, her quiet, thoughtful, girlish soprano beefed up by her loud, straightforward, unvirtuosic guitar and solid two-piece backup.
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Amy Fisher, the "Long Island Lolita," for instance, wore dark, conservative business suits, while Patty Hearst was made to look young and girlish.
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The image was girlish and delicate, yet inscrutable, as if Nicks were suggesting that the world might not know everything she's capable of.
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Now, she smiled easily and in Southern California fashion, tended to punctuate sentences with a girlish giggle, even when no joke was uttered.
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It's an adrenaline rush prickling with a disorienting eeriness, thanks to nose-diving sound effects and disembodied, girlish vocals that pop up sporadically.
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All this embroiders the picture, as does Christine's mental health and girlish bedroom, but none of this gets at why she pulls the trigger.
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She, like her conductor, approached the piece thoughtfully and unsensationally: Now over 50, she was more womanly than girlish, more tenderly longing than petulant.
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When Bianca does marry, even though it is to the suitor she most wanted, the girlish glee of independence drains from her at once.
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But last week, after resting my eyes on Lulu Organics' new Patchouli Rose hair powder, I let out a girlish squeal and said just that.
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She must have put a spell on me, tricking me into her chair, hypnotizing me with girlish dreams that had not been hardened by life.
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The death of her grandmother, Dotty (June Squibb), puts weekend keggers and girlish gossip on pause, but unexpectedly for Jamie, Dotty authorizes a teenage rebellion.
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It was during this period that Mr. Givenchy's style transformed from simple and girlish to lavishly embroidered and romantic, with a strict reverence for construction.
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With his round, rosy face and girlish strawberry-blond locks (that his father would not let him cut), young Jean glows like a ripe peach.
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When Ronnie Spector says hi, it's with a girlish chuckle and a thick Noo Yoik twang that hasn't diminished in all of her 19643 years.
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In Miller's account, Landon was able to write with such precision about sexual emotion and get away with it because her poetic persona was girlish.
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Franklin herself often seems modest, girlish (she was 29 at the time), never more so than when she's being praised by her father, the Rev.
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But his voice is nimble, a deep outer-borough croak that is a register or two away from demonic, before bursting into a girlish giggle.
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She is wiser and more world-weary than the girlish Katy Perry, more impassioned than the ice-cool Rihanna, more demure than the slinky Beyoncé.
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But I was an eternal tomboy, while Suzie was girlish, and had the good fortune to be the youngest of three girls in her family.
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Lena Dunham's items are a bit more pricey, with a Miu Miu pink skirt, which she calls "a perfect mix of girlish and glamorous," at $350.
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While under the trance of one of his female personalities, he ends up dressing up in a girlish kilt, flirting outrageously, and kissing a male character.
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In this story the likeness matters, because the girlish coarseness of Harding's features playing against Kerrigan's delicacy was a crucial ingredient in their cable-saga enmity.
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His first major Broadway gig was in "Spamalot," in which he played parts as varied as an abusive Frenchman, a girlish prince and an undead corpse.
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While some of his past Vuitton collections seem more attuned than others to this aesthetic, his own collection (only in its first season) is gleefully girlish.
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She sees Ms. Coyne's own art as "strongly feminist but not in a didactic way," adding that her sculptures have become more unabashedly "girlish" over time.
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Saturated in girlish pinks but with a little bite, the retro-pop world Of "%%" is deliciously fun and impossible to get out of your head. 2.
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Her hits, including "Supermodel" and "I Kissed a Girl," fused sugary melodies and her bright, girlish vocals with storytelling that was brilliantly subversive for mainstream audiences.
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With her girlish voice and her slightly unkempt hair, she seemed like the opposite of a hardened, professional political operative or even a dour, pedantic academic.
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Figure training reduced his waist to feminine slimness without further need of restriction, and the corsetting also rounded out his hips and buttocks to more girlish contours.
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Mr. Ghaffari just passes muster with athletic physicality, but watching the poised Ms. Brewster put on girlish airs is like watching someone choose an ill-advised scarf.
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Today, the passage of time has evolved her voice just beyond Belle's more girlish tones, but she does stay intimately connected to the character through her artwork.
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My yardstick for what fashionable had meant included "sophisticated" clothing that had moved beyond girlish ruffles and whimsy, but not so grown-up that things got dowdy.
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The author is discomfited by the stereotypically girlish memoirs of trans women, who thrill to become "the exact sort of girl I'd always thought of as false".
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"It's not too frilly or pretty," says the New Zealand-based designer, who pairs the typically girlish detail with slouchy track pants and sporty rib-knit cuffs.
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In a hatchet job on Austen and her disciples given as a speech in 1928, one critic derided her—and her fans—as sexless, malicious, and girlish.
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There's delicacy in the girlish breasts and in the rounded, pivoting knife that substitutes for a right hand, and you can slurp soup from the left hand.
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Lorelai's girlish wardrobe, tastes, and mannerisms have an obvious origin in her rebellion against her prim and proper mother and the hardship of raising a child at 16.
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The unlikely friendship inspires Parker to reject her mother's sunny aesthetic for something more emo, while Wednesday enacts her own form of teenage rebellion by embracing girlish conventionality.
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Both the Nash and Keene families are considered outsiders in the town, and their daughters didn't conform to the girlish ways of the other girls like, say, Amma.
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Grande and Minaj appear together on both "Queen" and "Sweetener," and the evolution of their relationship is stark: Minaj once spiked Grande's girlish work with a risqué energy.
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Though Shea said the men teased him upon seeing the sleek white cans, slinging insults about the seemingly girlish drink, they spent the weekend drinking it to excess.
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Likewise, drab grounds a room with a lot of color, balancing out lighter tones, preventing them from seeming girlish or saccharine, and keeping bright ones from looking cartoony.
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"You wouldn't know me if you saw me here / I'm changing day to day," she sings, deploying a girlish Texas drawl that has scarcely changed in thirteen years.
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But it's Graham as a speaker that Move most potently embodies, delivering that great choreographer's grand pronouncements, boasts and digs in a girlish voice that hides sharp teeth.
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In the back of the gallery a group of bright pink lulus collude in a corner, partially obscured by a wall, nestled together as if engaging in girlish gossip.
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She's endlessly sunny but not inauthentic, with a contagious, almost girlish giggle that comes out only when something is really funny, and a penchant for poking fun at herself.
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Putting her music across on a girlish flow free of tough-bitch macho-once-removed, she keeps her beats amateurish and minimal even when they flirt with trap grandeur.
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Her voice seesaws between soprano girlish affection and contralto hostility in a single sentence, and more than other Marys I've seen, she is endowed with a robust, uneasy sensuality.
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It was a substantial contrast between the elegant Gielgud and the earthy Olivier, both opposite the girlish Peggy Ashcroft, said to have been the finest Juliet of her generation.
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Clara, "a misunderstood girl," is played a man: Leonardo Sandoval, who's both winningly girlish and able to bust out a killer tap break when the story liberates his character.
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She's a woman in peril, until she's not, shedding her girlish bearing, forcing her mouth into a thin line, and rising through the ranks of drug trafficking and organized crime.
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There were exceptions: Jessica Tandy, forever girlish with her ponytail bound in black velvet, or the sophisticated spun-sugar bouffant of Carmen Dell'Orefice, one of the world's oldest professional models.
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On the phone, Ms. Masilo sounds girlish, but her dancing is powerfully muscular and kinetic, and she has been singularly unafraid of tackling issues that are volatile in her home country.
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Even if the characters Engel crafted were fictional, Engel's girlish voice, at least, wasn't part of the act: "What you see is what you get," said White in a 2012 interview.
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"Her clothes have a kind of tension to them, an elegance that is extremely feminine but never girlish," said Pascale Cayla, a contemporary art consultant who has long been a client.
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The bass-baritone Adam Plachetka sang with confident flair as Belcore, in this production a violent cad; Ying Fang brought a sweet timbre and suitably girlish presence to Giannetta, Adina's friend.
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The teenagers here are Gwen, Julia's lanky and still-girlish 16-year-old, and Nathan, James's charismatic and cocky 17-year-old progeny, who are now thrust together under one roof.
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Mr. Kaufmann, so natural at playing outsiders, is, with his gloomy croon, a foil for Ms. Yoncheva's mix of girlish clarity and haunted vibration, her acute tone piercing his smoky one.
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And while their exorbitant wealth has never been a secret, as adults, they began to obscure it less and less as their vocal affects went from giddy girlish sounds to sophisticated inflections.
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Still, buried in that Eeyore-ish lament, there's something else: Abby's girlish fantasy of herself as a "fucking damsel" longing for rescue—by a prince or a princess, the details don't matter.
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In the drawing "Moonrise" (2018, ink on paperboard), Nishimura stretches out a woman's neck like gooey taffy, topping it with a noseless, girlish head that resembles a balloon tethered to a long string.
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She loved running for office—"it was so much fun," she told me, oozing with girlish excitement—and performed surprisingly well, coming in in third place with about 22004 percent of the vote.
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She wears infantilizing girlish dresses to hit jobs, lulling her targets into ignoring her as a threat while readying her preferred (very feminine) weapon: a stylish hair accessory that's actually a lethal blade.
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Parks, who had a brisk, girlish way of speaking, told Belshe that her parents had been taken to Lakeview Terrace, an assisted-living facility in Boulder City, nine miles from the Arizona border.
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At 22017, she is still girlish in demeanor and soft spoken, though a fervent feminist who speaks openly about embracing her femininity while competing and working in a genre heavily dominated by men.
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At the height of the success of Sarah, in 2001, an awkward young man with a girlish round face, a blonde wig and glasses debuted before the world as the writer Jeremiah "Terminator" Leroy.
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A flurry of girlish giggles and empty chatter, Caroline demands, and receives, money and a convertible; Annette, stuck in a crumbling room above the studio, can only bemoan her lack of a functioning kitchen.
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Not given to prolonged mourning, she turned to a lavishly pleated, ankle-grazing green velvet dress, plucked it off the rack, clutched it to her chest and gave it the girlish twirl of a 1950s ingénue.
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Diana, one of the most photographed women in the world, whose every fashion choice was scrutinized by millions, evolved from girlish ingénue to glamorous international star — powered in no small part by her choice of dress.
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"It was really important that [Gomez] looked powerful and strong and it wasn't about doing girlish or baby looks," Young told PEOPLE at the star-studded event, which honored fashion icons like Giorgio Armani and Stella McCartney.
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Though the album's sound varies interestingly, it's all tied together by SZA's frankly sumptuous vocal, which feels girlish and full-bodied all at once, and it's basically the perfect collection of tracks for the coming summer months.
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But as I fell into the world of Comme des Garcons and Kawakubo, I found myself entranced by images of women wearing those girlish ruffles like battle spikes and rubber-soled combat boots with tulle ball gowns.
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"Rehearsals," on weddings, is written in the allegedly universal second person but feels like a tactic to distance Jamison from girlish terrain, and "The Long Trick" is an oddly monotonous tribute to the men in her family.
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Who can forget the end of Season Four when Sansa abandoned her girlish gowns for black leather and feathers, or Jon Snow's Season Six shift from the black crow cape to the proudly wearing the Direwolf of Winterfell?
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While the Duchess floats through the orderly grounds like a Stepford Scarlett O'Hara — straw hats, cascading gowns, blank smiles — the inmates are pointedly dressed in girlish outfits, virginal white from their neck ruffs to their high-button boots.
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As Susan Faludi explained in Backlash, women's fashion in the '80s emphasized girlish details like frills and ruffles and body-restricting items like corsets as a response to the rise of suiting and androgynous element of '70s trends.
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But I think the sweatsuit will provide you the option that if maybe one day you want to look a little bit more boyish you can, if one day you want to look a bit more girlish, you can.
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This may have had to do with Pavlova's age (she was in her 30s and not remotely girlish, at least here), but it also comes across as a shrewd directorial choice that serves both the story and the star.
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As part of her onstage persona, Ms. Bruener, who lives in Alexandria, Ky., and uses a wheelchair to get around, dresses up in a buttoned cardigan and a colorful headband, a girlish look intended to throw off her audience.
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The light, catchy loops and beats of the dance-pop Riton goes for take their lead from the girlish delight of Kah-Lo's half-spoken unrap in a synthesis that bears only a peripheral relationship to Lagos's electro-happy Afrobeats craze.
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Amy Keating Rogers, the head writer on The Powerpuff Girls who helped to expand its influence by also writing Scholastic books and comics based on the franchise, says she refused to focus on the trio's girlish qualities when developing the characters.
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From afar, the sugary frills and flounces of Cecilie Bahnsen's clothes may seem girlish and saccharine, but upon closer inspection there's a distinct Scandinavian minimalism to her designs: Sharp-edged silhouettes and voluminous skirts give her pieces a sense of modernity.
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His phenomenal 1952 portrait of a girlish, hip, centered Billie Holiday is unusual in that she is facing the camera, relating to DeCarava with what looks like a mixture of curiosity, flirtatiousness, and defiance: "This is me," she seems to say.
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She wasn't best as the girlish naïf of Act I, nor as the seductress of Act II — both somehow sketchy — but rather as the exiled, starkly suffering convict of Acts III and IV, death practically dripping from her sumptuous tone.
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Past the tubs with pickled things, past the cream and the crème fraîche redolent of girlish innocence, past the artillery depot of potatoes, radishes, and cabbages, past the hills of fruit, past the signal lights of clementines—to the farthest corner.
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Sweet, girlish things are easy to deride — as Jaya Saxena wrote in 2017, feminine-coded food trends (cupcakes, rosé) are typically talked about as though women are "ruining" food, while male-coded ones (bitter craft brews, for instance) elevate it.
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The plaintive, girlish rendition of the elegiac show tune, the weird mien and awkward quasi-life of the characters, and the magical-realist entrance and disappearance of the flying creatures combine with our knowledge of the setting to elicit a certain melancholy.
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Fabulously dressed — in Alaïa, Alexander McQueen and an array of Philip Treacy hats — she is also surprisingly girlish as she reveals to Jean-Paul Goude, her former husband, that he is the only man who can make her go weak at the knees.
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She has lost none of the girlish glow she possessed when she first rose to Broadway stardom, even as she made a winning, self-deprecating joke about her age (48), namely that she hasn't yet appeared on the cover of the AARP magazine.
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One person held a handmade sign that said "Love Wins" in girlish script with a heart over the i's in "wins" and in "Marianne" and around "kindness is free"; one had a sign that said "Mari-Yang," as in yin and yang.
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It's a girlish dream where the casual date who shows up at your job turns out to be your soul mate instead of a creepy stalker; where the words "you are never, ever, ever getting rid of me" are whimsical and romantic instead of terrifying.
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Her still-girlish puff of a voice is perfect for Winnie's indomitably chipper spirit as she spends her long hours babbling merrily, keeping up a bright sheen of optimism, expecting every day to be a happy day, in benign acceptance of her strange predicament.
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Barbara Hannigan, singing her first Mélisande with precision but never coldness, more womanly than girlish, is unequaled in the opera world for her physical control, and what she does here — a mixture of stillness, deliberation and sometimes what can only be called gymnastics — is riveting.
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The show has wonderful sights: In the first gallery four dresses from the 1920s and '30s in creamy silk crepe, all attributed to O'Keeffe, progress from girlish to sophisticated, while the surrounding paintings attest to the supple range of her art in the 1920s.
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While breasts are as sexualized as ever in popular culture, the Breast Cancer Awareness movement's devotion to pink seems like a clear attempt to recast an illness that primarily afflicts a female erogenous zone (although men can also suffer from breast cancer) as something girlish, even prepubescent.
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Co-created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the genius behind "Fleabag" (whose second season débuts in May), it features two wildly watchable performances: those of Sandra Oh, as the workaholic intelligence officer Eve, and Jodie Comer, as the girlish sociopath Villanelle, each the object of the other's obsession.
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In the most stereotypical (and by now probably outdated) terms, a "basic bitch" wears North Face, leggings, and Uggs, and absolutely adores hashtag-PSLs, marking her as a woman with "a girlish interest in seasonal changes and an unsophisticated penchant for sweet," as the Cut noted back in 913.
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Ms. Gaignard, who is 34, with strawberry-blond hair and long, acrylic nails painted the matte pastel colors of Jordan almonds, had decorated her bedroom with charmingly girlish touches, like a white net canopy befitting a fairy-tale princess and a Felix the Cat clock with a pendulum tail.
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Kristen Stewart, called "the queen of Cannes" by Mr. Frémaux because she is starring in two films here, changed into a miniskirt and sneakers for the dinner following the opening-night film last week, Woody Allen's "Café Society," in which she plays against the girlish confines of her role.
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The sun has not yet risen when they arrive at the hostel that will be their new home for the next six months: 137 women in 15 unfurnished rooms, every inch covered with girlish flotsam, underwear and bras drying on the window grates, sentimental verses penciled on the walls.
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I downloaded a press copy I forgot until I tripped over it in iTunes, whereupon it went into heavy rotation: beaty synth-guitar-drums, hummable tunes, Safai's girlish-not-grrrlish soprano delivering lyrics about following your heart down the byways of love to the end of the world.
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Better still is Stewart, who, despite the girlish touches in her outfits (headband, white ankle socks with strappy sandals), reveals a woman veiled in ruefulness, and her final moments, in which Vonnie muses on paths both taken and spurned, are a lovely act of suspension, done without a word.
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The novel's political story line is subtly powerful, but perhaps the greatest reason to keep reading is to find out how the young Prue became this difficult, complicated woman — how she dropped her girlish crush and her camera in order to rework the sort of statues her father planned to destroy.
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I am a Rebel Girl uses a similar style of relatable, modern content to that of Australian author Alana Wulff, whose 2017 teen feminist empowerment book Girlish used quotes from the likes of Michelle Obama, Amy Poehler, Roxane Gay, and Lorde to give young women a new reference tool for exploring their identity.
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Soon I would be left with an odd feeling of melancholy at having met one of the legendary figures of the 20th century, this lady who retained an almost girlish sense of innocence and humor, despite having lived through the loss of countries and children, and more experience than several lifetimes could encompass.
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Already published earlier this year in the UK, Armfield's short story debut immediately calls to mind the slippery short stories of Carmen Maria Machado and Angela Carter in its gothic treatment of common girlish concerns, from puberty — a girl's skin literally molts right before she's kissed — to boyfriends who turn to stone.
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Although the girlish Detroit rapper's second mixtape was sparked by her fuck-you earworm "Try Me," which used to cap it off but isn't on the one I bought two years late, I found her hammer-to-your-head manifesto for her "unborn creations" so irresistible that I never much missed it.
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" Fashion critic Lisa Armstrong (43) wrote nearly 3,000 words for British Vogue last year on style and age, outlining a few — but not many — 'rules' for dressing past your 20s: "Lesson one: While revealing too much flesh or clinging to the holy terrors of boho, rock chic, grunge, and girlish fussiness are all no-no's for the sophisticated grown-up, beyond that it's an open field.
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Activists and advocates love to talk about "empowering" girls, but only insofar as those girls are quiet and compliant, and the championing of girls wanes when they enter the messy adolescent years -- when they walk on the precipice between girlish adorableness and womanly sexuality, when they demand more ownership over their bodies and ideas, when they take risks and suggest they have their own wants and desires (including sexual ones).
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These included an entire "Capitol Couture" line of ready-to-wear fashion; a line of Cover Girl makeup that created a different "look" to accompany each of the starving and marginalized districts of Panem, including a special Capitol line; a pink archer's bow Hasbro toy aimed at young girls, for those moments when you want to express your girlish charm while hunting wildlife to feed your starving family; and two food-related products: a partnership with Subway and upscale Hunger Games chocolate.
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He posted a lot of stuff on bulletin boards, including a Japanese anime site where, in April, 21.2, when he was eighteen, he uploaded a short autobiography called "The Book of Ed," illustrated with a cartoon of himself, a bitmoji before they were called bitmojis, wearing a T-shirt that reads "I ♥ Me": I like Japanese, I like food, I like martial arts, I like ponies, I like guns, I like food, I like girls, I like my girlish figure that attracts girls, and I like my lamer friends.
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