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online aesthetics, subcultures, and 'girl' internet (feat. evan collins)

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The Condescending Use of Baby Girl in K-Pop

I think that yeah, there is a somewhat like condescending way that a lot of mostly women use the term baby girl. This was actually something that existed in the K-pop fandom. It's funny because it was mostly like 15, 16 year old girls to discuss these mostly adult men as really cute and so baby and like demasculonize them in that sense. And then adding the term girl just kind of makes it cutesierBecause I actually do talk about it in this episode,. But I think it just kind of falls under the trend of tagging the word girl onto everythinglike hot girl summer, hot girl walks, girl dinner, girl blogging.

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