@alexlaw on a related note I feel like an aspect of this argument that was always left out was how the media depictions of “not like other girls” were always just as much a male fantasy as the “other girls” were, manic pixie dreamgirls and such, but those kinds of feminists always wanted to blame the “not like other girls” girls for that aspect of how they were depicted over questioning WHY they were depicted that way and to whose benefit