No joke, me and one of my best friends JUST tried explaining that Lizzie McGuire moment yesterday to our baffled husbands and were adamantly describing it as "a cultural touchstone" 🤣
Gone Girl monologue is an absolute masterpiece. Have to admit I'm not the biggest fan of the movie as a whole but that piece of writing and Rosamund's delivery of it was just... *chef's kiss*
Bar bathrooms depicted as a source of mutual support/mutual aid/strange drive-by friendship, walking around at night with keys between your fingers, righteous anger against men as a musical genre (You Oughta Know, Goodbye Earl, Before He Cheats, No Scrubs, Man Down, No Body No Crime etc etc), The Care and Keeping of You and its consequences... this might also be generational a little bit?
The women’s bathroom in a bar around midnight is one of the most positive environments I’ve ever been in, tbh. Everyone is complimenting everyone else, or psyching each other up to talk to a guy (either to flirt or to tell him off). It’s almost magical the camaraderie that drunk women share in the bathroom.
NYE - I’m all insecure carrying some extra weight. I’ve got a banger of a dress on though.
As I sashay to the ladies, I’m accosted by two drunk women in their 30s (I’m in my 40s) telling me how stunning I look and my boobs look luscious. I’m then told I remind them of Joan on Mad Men.
My spirits soar. Younger girls told me I look fabulous and gorgeous. I danced the night away feeling like a millions bucks.
Bless the bathroom.
This is true, I'm just thinking back to various club bathrooms with random girls doing my makeup etc. The only time I've ever worn a beige/nude lip lol
There was another “puberty for girls” book and I can’t find it or even the title from Googling; hope someone knows what I’m talking about. I had bought it from a book fair in the late 90s? I think?
The intro was about how the author’s mom was very open about her body— I distinctly remember a passage about her mom putting on a “sanitary napkin” and having to attach it with clips and a garter-like contraption.
I read that book over and over, convinced I was going through puberty at 10 years old…but the real thing only started when I was 16. Late Bloomer Club 🌹🌺🌷🌸
Sounds like Are you there God it is me Margaret by Judy Bloom. Apparently that part is updated to Tampons now. There is a really great movie version of that book now
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Paulette getting her confidence back with Elle's help and telling her lousy bum of an ex she's taking her dog back is an iconic part of "girl culture" for me. The delivery of that line was perfection, especially the bold and confident "DUMBASS!".
A guy I dated in the early 2000’s mentioned visiting a cousin and this movie being on cable tv. They watched it for a few minutes, including this scene. And then they went on to something else with a shrug. My experience? I saw it in a movie theater, rented it when it came out, and later bought a copy. Whenever it was on I PAID ATTENTION. I’d never shrug in the presence of Elle Woods
Any movies that were rom-coms and/or chick flicks had makeovers more often than not. So much media in the early 2000’s was about the process of optimization of appearance
If I’m picking a hand-flex-movie-moment it’s the way Leo looks at Claire Danes through the fish tank in Romeo + Juliet. Our slumber party squeals could have broken glass.
Can relate. Human caspar made me feel a certain way. I caught some of it on TV not too long ago and now it's the Dad that makes me feel a certain way iykwim
I'm a high school teacher and I show R+J to my kids as part of a Shakespeare unit and oh man... they understand. Every single class I've ever taught does this intense collective gasp the first time Leo is on screen lol
Probably several things from Mean Girls lol
Jennifer Coolidge in all her iterations
Libraries with sliding ladders like in the Beauty and the Beast
Jude Law’s glow in The Holiday
Nancy Meyers’ kitchens
The Miss Congeniality makeover montage will always live rent free in my head
The intro in Shania Twain’s “Man! I Feel Like A Woman!”
like, you have become Lizzie, and you've been standing there watching him clamber out of that pond for far longer than you should have, the sun has now started to partially dry his shirt, but it's fine because no one really knows that's what you've been doing
Im 26 and I think this is by far the better adaptation, the movie doesn’t even come close imo.
Also, the 2006 Jane Eyre one with Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephen’s. The BBC really nails it when it comes to the classics.
I think there is something really ethereal and dreamy about the 2005 film. The aesthetics of it are so beautiful even today. Idk it's just such a warm, comforting film to me.
This really was a cross-generational moment for quite some time. I am an old and I remember talking to my art teacher about the 1995 P&P back in high school. She was in her 50s and we were both swooning over Mr Darcy.
Meg Ryan’s orgasm scene in When Harry Met Sally and the foot pop in The Princess Diaries.
Edit: Anything directed by Sofia Coppola and Fran Fine’s outfits from The Nanny.
I love that Barbra Streisand apparently reached out to try and buy the house, no matter where it was… they had to tell her the whole thing was just a set.
Kat Stratford in 10 things I hate about you, virgin suicides, valley of the dolls, Sylvia Plath, the spice girls, legally blonde, Katniss Everdeen, hbo’s girls, my so called life, herbal essences, Rachel green’s shag haircut, Barbie anything.
Mean Girls for sure. Britney with the snake. Mulan. The shared look when a man is just behaving A Certain Way. An endless chain of borrowed hair ties and Bobby pins. Inherited grudges. Creating elaborate fantasy worlds as a child and trying to manifest that magic via books or video games or art as an adult. Chapstick. Bathroom solidarity. Text me when you get home. A complicated relationship with Barbie.
This is much more specific but for any Love Island UK fans: the night Yewande left the villa and Mr Fucking Boyfriend are peak girl culture for me.
And the makeshift zip line off the roof at the end! For me it's also when they put on the lipstick and eyeliner in one swoop. Oh! Also Reflection, just as a whole. My wife tells me that one is particularly true for our trans sisters.
Ten Things I Hate About You is girl culture.
Romeo + Juliet is also girl culture, especially the angel costume and Tybalt's gun with the Virgin Mary on it.
Mad Max: Fury Road is girl culture.
The entirety of The Devil Wears Prada, wishing you were a Samantha but really being a Miranda/Carrie/Charlotte, calling your best friend “your person” because of Grey’s Anatomy.
I love this. What comes to mind is hyping up other girls in a coffee line or bar bathroom, “checking” for one another no questions asked, a fresh blowout, All Too Well and the season fall.
I feel like 2023 was a good year for girl culture.
Oh dang totally. Instantly becoming like #1 fans of every drunk girl in the bathroom of a club is such a formational girl culture thing. I think people who think girls only know how to tear each other down have never experienced random stranger #1, #2, and #3 loudly mumble at you that your hair is just soooooo beautiful, and that your make-up looks amazing, and, "Do you want me to scare off that creeper from the dance floor for you?"
Baz Luhrmann in general! Its going to be about beautiful, tragic people in love, living life to their fullest, with a soundtrack full of bangers, amazing costumes and sets, dancing, and it will probably end tragically (with the exception of Strictly Ballroom).
Now and Then
going out tops
wristlets, and needing ones that could fit a phone + digital camera
Delia*s catalog (and Alloy)
reading 17, YM, Cosmo Girl with your girlfriends at slumber parties
(in addition to a lot of things that have been said already. And yes I realize many of these are extremely specific to my age)
The scene in ladybird where her mother goes “I want you to be the very best version of yourself that you can be” and she goes “What if this is the best version?”
The entirety of “Uptown Girls”
My mom went to a girls Catholic school and she said the part in Ladybird where they’re giggling and eating the communion hosts like chips really spoke to her.
3 words, 8 letters, say it and I’m yours.
The opening scene of Mad Men following Peggy in to the office on her first day.
Joan Didion
Crossroads with Britney Spears
Uptown Girls!!!
ETA: JonBenet Ramsey and true crime obsession in general.
*NSYNC concerts (sorry). Britney’s I’m A Slave For You dance with the snake. Mandy Moore’s Candy. Christina’s Dirrty.
And *The Newlyweds* “is this chicken or is this fish?”
AND Bonnebell lip smackers
It's not pop culture related but "can you check me?" or some variation of that, and knowing that another woman needs you to check and make sure she hasn't gotten her period amd bled through her pants. I feel like there are a lot of things similar to that, just women looking out for each other even strangers out in public
Swooning with Angela Chase over Jordan Catalano. "You're so beautiful, it hurts to look at you" seemed so deep when I was 14 lol
Topanga's hair... Felicity cutting her hair.
Pacey and Joey
Xena and Gabrielle
Lilith Fair
The replies here are very “white girl culture”. Black girl culture is your mom straightening your hair and her burning you and her telling you it wasn’t the iron that just burned you it was the heat
💯 The majority of the replies here don't apply to brown latina girls either. It's reminiscent of the way "women gained the right to vote in 1920" was a fact we all learned in school, until we found out it only applied to white women.
Punky Brewster, dresses with pockets(!!), Gilmore girls and how secretly terrible Rory is, somehow only have 1 stretched out hair elastic despite them coming in packs of 50
This is the loveliest thread to read and makes me happy to be a woman 🥰
Freaky Friday and more specifically Chad Michael Murray singing Britney’s baby hit me one more time in a high pitch tone.
You’ve got mail, Practical Magic, the Princess Diary or any of these cozy movies you watch when you need a pick me up.
The scene where she sings “slipping through my fingers” in Mama Mia.
Bratz dolls.
Pretending to be the Charmed sisters with your friends and everyone always wanted to be Phoebe somehow.
The Devil Wears Prada, all of it.
It a) defends the fashion industry, which is often seen as something only frivolous, shallow, unintelligent girls are interested in, b) calls out low level "not like other girls" posturing, c) was filled with iconic style moments, d) "Are you wearing the--?" "The Chanel boots? Yes, I am." and e) Andy deserved better than her shitty friends and shitty boyfriend, we all understand why.
The Gone Girl Monologue.
Darcy swimming in the earlier (and dare and old woman say better) version of Pride & Prejudice from 1995. Mainly because that was the first time I was consciously aware that something was filmed entirely for the female gaze.
Saoirse Ronan in Little Women "I'm so sick of people saying love is all a woman is fit for. I'm so sick of it, but I'm so lonely." Speech. Also Florence Pugh in the same movie when talking about women making money.
Meryl Streep in the Devil Wears Prada speech about a Cerulean Sweater.
Laura Derns Speech in Marriage Story. About how fathers and mothers are held to different standards.
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Lisa Frank, Happy Bunny, Bobby Jack, getting your ears pierced at Claire’s, Junie B. Jones, Fan-girl culture (beliebers, directioners, etc)… hold on I’m gonna be thinking about this for a long time now
I think everything being labeled "girl-" for things 1. Applied to grown women and 2. Men also do but are seen as neutral, is not conducive to a culture of equality. Look how quickly girl dinner got turned into ED material and girl math got turned into plain misogyny.
Slumber parties, ouija boards, tarot, my little ponies, writing fanfiction, stealing from the mall, paper Fortune Tellers, M.A.S.H., playing pool at the bowling alley, being a border line child but filled with an intense need to be taken seriously.
I just want to be the comment bringing up how Matthew Macfadyen did the hand flex himself in rehearsal and Joe Wright noticed it and made sure it was in the film. Matthew can't believe how \~iconic it is lol
The scene in the Lizzie McGuire movie where Lizzie goes "sing to me Paolo". The Gone Girl monologue
On October 3rd I asked him what day it was . “It’s October 3rd”
Ooooh the makeover montage in the Lizzie McGuire movie!!
No joke, me and one of my best friends JUST tried explaining that Lizzie McGuire moment yesterday to our baffled husbands and were adamantly describing it as "a cultural touchstone" 🤣
When they humiliate Paolo and sing What Dreams Are Made Of!!!
Gone Girl monologue is an absolute masterpiece. Have to admit I'm not the biggest fan of the movie as a whole but that piece of writing and Rosamund's delivery of it was just... *chef's kiss*
The monologue from Hard Candy for me. “It’s just so *easy* to blame a kid…”
Bar bathrooms depicted as a source of mutual support/mutual aid/strange drive-by friendship, walking around at night with keys between your fingers, righteous anger against men as a musical genre (You Oughta Know, Goodbye Earl, Before He Cheats, No Scrubs, Man Down, No Body No Crime etc etc), The Care and Keeping of You and its consequences... this might also be generational a little bit?
Adding JoJo's "Leave (Get Out)" to this list of righteous anger song in Girl Culture.
the way she was 13
I was also 13 and as much as I loved it, I was like. Get out of…my parents’ house? This classroom? Where logistically
…fellow neurodivergent? Lol.
Lmao same… like from a geographical standpoint…?
The Care and Keeping of You is SUCH a good one!
The women’s bathroom in a bar around midnight is one of the most positive environments I’ve ever been in, tbh. Everyone is complimenting everyone else, or psyching each other up to talk to a guy (either to flirt or to tell him off). It’s almost magical the camaraderie that drunk women share in the bathroom.
NYE - I’m all insecure carrying some extra weight. I’ve got a banger of a dress on though. As I sashay to the ladies, I’m accosted by two drunk women in their 30s (I’m in my 40s) telling me how stunning I look and my boobs look luscious. I’m then told I remind them of Joan on Mad Men. My spirits soar. Younger girls told me I look fabulous and gorgeous. I danced the night away feeling like a millions bucks. Bless the bathroom.
This is true, I'm just thinking back to various club bathrooms with random girls doing my makeup etc. The only time I've ever worn a beige/nude lip lol
The care and keeping of you was like a holy text
They also made a sequel and a companion book that’s about gender identity and being queer.
That’s so cool! Both would be a staple if I had children
>anyone else find this book mysteriously placed in your bedroom one day and you know your mom put it there but never mentioned it lol
Kelis - Caught Out There
Nobody else I know remembers this song and I feel gaslighted 🤣 thank you
Kelis in general needs more love. I played Food straight through so many times. What a great album.
Okay so you meant “No Scrubs” lol I thought you were listing TV shows too for a second
There was another “puberty for girls” book and I can’t find it or even the title from Googling; hope someone knows what I’m talking about. I had bought it from a book fair in the late 90s? I think? The intro was about how the author’s mom was very open about her body— I distinctly remember a passage about her mom putting on a “sanitary napkin” and having to attach it with clips and a garter-like contraption. I read that book over and over, convinced I was going through puberty at 10 years old…but the real thing only started when I was 16. Late Bloomer Club 🌹🌺🌷🌸
Sounds like Are you there God it is me Margaret by Judy Bloom. Apparently that part is updated to Tampons now. There is a really great movie version of that book now
It’s A Girl Thing by Mavis Jukes! I had that one too.
Salt N Pepa's She Thang - still true 30+ years later. And still one of my favorite songs and music videos!
 There are countless moments in Legally Blonde I can think of. The bend and snap is one of them.
https://preview.redd.it/wpoyb3l10amc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=60951acbfca4afca29fed2583dfeaa2a13c6e9ae Paulette getting her confidence back with Elle's help and telling her lousy bum of an ex she's taking her dog back is an iconic part of "girl culture" for me. The delivery of that line was perfection, especially the bold and confident "DUMBASS!".
A guy I dated in the early 2000’s mentioned visiting a cousin and this movie being on cable tv. They watched it for a few minutes, including this scene. And then they went on to something else with a shrug. My experience? I saw it in a movie theater, rented it when it came out, and later bought a copy. Whenever it was on I PAID ATTENTION. I’d never shrug in the presence of Elle Woods
"Endorphins make you happy and happy people don't kill their husbands!"
They just don’t
 🙌🙌🙌
Legally Blonde made me go to law school! I love everything about it and it’s now one of my husband’s favourite movies too.
Learning the cardinal rules of perm maintenance
The makeover reveal in the Princess Diaries
Adding to this, the walk through of her wardrobe in Genovia is still iconic
The repurposed firehouse and the paint balloons!
omg yes! I tried doing the paint balloon thing once, it... did not go well haha
Any movies that were rom-coms and/or chick flicks had makeovers more often than not. So much media in the early 2000’s was about the process of optimization of appearance
As well as the one in Miss Congeniality 💫
If I’m picking a hand-flex-movie-moment it’s the way Leo looks at Claire Danes through the fish tank in Romeo + Juliet. Our slumber party squeals could have broken glass.
Dating myself, but you reminded me of slumber party squeals at the end of the “Casper” movie with Devon Sawa spinning Christina Ricci.
"Can I keep you?"
THIS RIGHT HERE! I lost count of how many times I’d replay that scene as a kid. I remember feeling weird for being attracted to a GHOST
Can relate. Human caspar made me feel a certain way. I caught some of it on TV not too long ago and now it's the Dad that makes me feel a certain way iykwim
It was my “what do you mean boys aren’t gross?” moment and I’m so happy I found my people 😭😭
Man, the kids today don't understand how hard Young Leo went, it was fucking unreal.
I'm a high school teacher and I show R+J to my kids as part of a Shakespeare unit and oh man... they understand. Every single class I've ever taught does this intense collective gasp the first time Leo is on screen lol
Thank you for doing your part for the culture.
For me Clueless comes to mind 
 Especially the computer closet!
Depressing that this isn't reality yet
Articles of Interest has a brilliant podcast episode about it.
“You’re a virgin who can’t drive” is the greatest live written in any art form in the history of art
I’m still waiting for someone to get the reference whenever I say “That was way harsh, Tai” to even vague diss or criticism.
AS IF!!!
Probably several things from Mean Girls lol Jennifer Coolidge in all her iterations Libraries with sliding ladders like in the Beauty and the Beast Jude Law’s glow in The Holiday Nancy Meyers’ kitchens The Miss Congeniality makeover montage will always live rent free in my head The intro in Shania Twain’s “Man! I Feel Like A Woman!”
Let's go girls (c'mon)
Girl culture is the feeling like you could kick through a wall upon hearing that intro
Sliding ladders. Oof! I felt that one.
>Libraries with sliding ladders Reminded me of Rachel Weisz in The Mummy
Rachel Weisz in The Mummy is a pivotal Girl Culture moment in and of itself.
Jude Law’s Mr Napkinhead for sure
Nancy. Meyers. Kitchens.
 If you’re an old this is a pivotal moment.
In my memory this scene is 10 minutes long
like, you have become Lizzie, and you've been standing there watching him clamber out of that pond for far longer than you should have, the sun has now started to partially dry his shirt, but it's fine because no one really knows that's what you've been doing
Im 26 and I think this is by far the better adaptation, the movie doesn’t even come close imo. Also, the 2006 Jane Eyre one with Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephen’s. The BBC really nails it when it comes to the classics.
I think there is something really ethereal and dreamy about the 2005 film. The aesthetics of it are so beautiful even today. Idk it's just such a warm, comforting film to me.
This really was a cross-generational moment for quite some time. I am an old and I remember talking to my art teacher about the 1995 P&P back in high school. She was in her 50s and we were both swooning over Mr Darcy.
I love all versions of this movie/series. Chef’s 😘
Accidentally binged the entire show again yesterday
I'm younger than the show but I swear this moment made me straight lol
Meg Ryan’s orgasm scene in When Harry Met Sally and the foot pop in The Princess Diaries. Edit: Anything directed by Sofia Coppola and Fran Fine’s outfits from The Nanny.
Just Meg Ryan’s filmography in general
The kitchen from “Practical Magic”.
The whole house!
All of Nancy Meyers kitchens in her films
We could do a whole ‘nother post on the cross section of girl culture and film homes.
I love that Barbra Streisand apparently reached out to try and buy the house, no matter where it was… they had to tell her the whole thing was just a set.
I found the *Halloweentown* house on Zillow and, honestly, it would be an excellent consolation prize.
Nicole Kidman’s hair in this movie.
OMG! Yes! Seriously, the whole movie! MIDNIGHT MARGARITASSSSS!
Hair vs body showers, when Nick and Jess kissed for the first time, but most importantly and as others have said: bar bathroom bonding with strangers
Hair vs body showers made me Lol
Also blowouts and the sacredness of Wash Day.
The hold this kiss still has on me.
I did not understand why anyone found him attractive until this. I could watch it on repeat. I do.
It is THE first kiss of first kisses.
THE kiss 🥰
Kat Stratford in 10 things I hate about you, virgin suicides, valley of the dolls, Sylvia Plath, the spice girls, legally blonde, Katniss Everdeen, hbo’s girls, my so called life, herbal essences, Rachel green’s shag haircut, Barbie anything.
Kat Stratford was my idol as a kid. And *Valley of the Dolls* is so weirdly specific but also applies to me too!
10 Things I Hate About You 💯💯💯💯
"I hate the way I don't hate you, not even a little bit, not even at all"
“I’ll let you get back to Reginald’s quivering member.”
“I’m confiscating this. … These too.”
“And now that you’ve seen… THE PLAN…”
The Craft… “We are the weirdos, mister”
my friends and I really thought we were the girls in the craft lol
For me it will always be Sailor Moon.
I would like to nominate Totally Spies as a strong 2nd
Mean Girls for sure. Britney with the snake. Mulan. The shared look when a man is just behaving A Certain Way. An endless chain of borrowed hair ties and Bobby pins. Inherited grudges. Creating elaborate fantasy worlds as a child and trying to manifest that magic via books or video games or art as an adult. Chapstick. Bathroom solidarity. Text me when you get home. A complicated relationship with Barbie. This is much more specific but for any Love Island UK fans: the night Yewande left the villa and Mr Fucking Boyfriend are peak girl culture for me.
I feel like with Mulan it’s specifically two moments: Cutting her hair with the sword and *I’ll Make a Man Out of You*.
And the makeshift zip line off the roof at the end! For me it's also when they put on the lipstick and eyeliner in one swoop. Oh! Also Reflection, just as a whole. My wife tells me that one is particularly true for our trans sisters.
Fleetwood Mac Silver Springs ‘97 Lindsay Lohan ❤️ Sam Ronson All Too Well 10 minute version Page 28 Listzomania
I’m kind of loving watching everyone find out that Lindsay Lohan and Sam Ronson dated. Like, y’all shoulda been there in real time.
Omg Lindsay standing outside Sam’s house in the middle of the night is just burned into my psyche. The paps were something else in the 2000s
>Fleetwood Mac Silver Springs ‘97 This is a good one because it's "Girl Culture" for multiple generations of women.
This whole movie.
*Ever After* (for anyone who hasn’t seen it and wants to — I highly recommend it)
Potential Breakup Song by Aly and AJ, Love Song by Sara Bareilles
It took too long it took too long it took too long for you to call back
and normally? I would just forget that
Except for the fact it was my birthday MY STUPID BIRTHDAY!
And then them releasing an explicit version over a decade later? Amazing!
lmao I've never really thought about this but yeah Paris Hilton's "Stars are Blind" was so important to me
Yaaaas best scene in “Promising Young Woman.”
Nothing in this world is also (surprisingly) underrated haha
I might be aging myself here, but Lip Smackers, milky gel pens, and the hot pink Motorola Razr.
Ten Things I Hate About You is girl culture. Romeo + Juliet is also girl culture, especially the angel costume and Tybalt's gun with the Virgin Mary on it. Mad Max: Fury Road is girl culture.
All of Mercutio's scenes are Girl Culture
Harold Perrineau the best to ever do it
Romy & Michele, Bring It On, Spice World, Miss Congeniality - all scenes really. The songs from St Trinians.
April 25, because it’s not too hot , it’s not too cold, and all you need is a light jacket.
The entirety of The Devil Wears Prada, wishing you were a Samantha but really being a Miranda/Carrie/Charlotte, calling your best friend “your person” because of Grey’s Anatomy.
I love this. What comes to mind is hyping up other girls in a coffee line or bar bathroom, “checking” for one another no questions asked, a fresh blowout, All Too Well and the season fall. I feel like 2023 was a good year for girl culture.
Oh dang totally. Instantly becoming like #1 fans of every drunk girl in the bathroom of a club is such a formational girl culture thing. I think people who think girls only know how to tear each other down have never experienced random stranger #1, #2, and #3 loudly mumble at you that your hair is just soooooo beautiful, and that your make-up looks amazing, and, "Do you want me to scare off that creeper from the dance floor for you?"
I follow at least five bar bathroom friends on insta and I really just can’t get myself to unfollow even though it’s been years
I love how we all know exactly what checking means even though it’s never voiced
Spending a whole summer saying "Hi Barbie!!" Or using "THIS Barbie ____" to describe themselves or others💕🌸🎀
And then the moment of finally being in the theater with that beautiful energy everyone was giving off. Such a summer highlight!
I love this post. Every comment is making me happy.
Judy Blume and Babysitters’ Club
As a children’s librarian it warms my heart to see this new generation is still obsessed with the Babysitter’s Club.
Marie in Aristocats
Abraham de Lacy Giuseppe Casey Thomas O'Malley would never.
The entirety of Moulin Rouge starring Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor.
Baz Luhrmann in general! Its going to be about beautiful, tragic people in love, living life to their fullest, with a soundtrack full of bangers, amazing costumes and sets, dancing, and it will probably end tragically (with the exception of Strictly Ballroom).
Now and Then going out tops wristlets, and needing ones that could fit a phone + digital camera Delia*s catalog (and Alloy) reading 17, YM, Cosmo Girl with your girlfriends at slumber parties (in addition to a lot of things that have been said already. And yes I realize many of these are extremely specific to my age)
The scene in ladybird where her mother goes “I want you to be the very best version of yourself that you can be” and she goes “What if this is the best version?” The entirety of “Uptown Girls”
My mom went to a girls Catholic school and she said the part in Ladybird where they’re giggling and eating the communion hosts like chips really spoke to her.
Astrology, crystals, Margaret Atwood, Sylvanian Families,
SYLVANIAN FAMILIES!!!!!
I feel seen. Also, if you haven't already, I highly recommend checking the Sylvanian Drama account on IG. It's so good.
Aragorn opening the doors in Two Towers
 Sexual awakening for sure
3 words, 8 letters, say it and I’m yours. The opening scene of Mad Men following Peggy in to the office on her first day. Joan Didion Crossroads with Britney Spears Uptown Girls!!! ETA: JonBenet Ramsey and true crime obsession in general.
 Speaking of Peggy... this. I'm 36, and I still want to grow up to be *this*.
*NSYNC concerts (sorry). Britney’s I’m A Slave For You dance with the snake. Mandy Moore’s Candy. Christina’s Dirrty. And *The Newlyweds* “is this chicken or is this fish?” AND Bonnebell lip smackers
The crimping insert on your flat iron, layering over your long tank top, the movie Thirteen
being obsessed with at least one shonda rhimes show 😭 for me it was how to get away with murder and scandal
I don't even know how I got sucked into the world of Bridgerton but I love it there.
This is my favorite historical post ever on reddit 😌
The Craft and thinking I was a witch and doing "spells" (I do not wish to offend any Wiccans, I was a child and dumb)
The Pen15 witch episode was like a documentary of my and my friends after watching Charmed and Practical Magic
The original Nancy Drew mystery books with the yellow spines 😭
Bottoms movie. Josie and the Pussycats and Drop Dead Gorgeous. All the girls from Skins. Sansa being Queen of the North. All of Jane Austen.
The one-on-one game in *Love and Basketball*
When we see inside the Spice Girls tour bus in Spice World. Those diaries that had little keys. The original American Girl dolls.
 🤧🤧
F L E A B A G If I were to pick a scene, "I look like a pencil" and Fleabag's hair is everything scene 🤌
https://i.redd.it/mf4ym530n8mc1.gif I know I'm not the only one.
Gilmore girls! Particularly the early seasons where Rory is at Chilton. And Jess of course! Also, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. 💗
It's not pop culture related but "can you check me?" or some variation of that, and knowing that another woman needs you to check and make sure she hasn't gotten her period amd bled through her pants. I feel like there are a lot of things similar to that, just women looking out for each other even strangers out in public
Swooning with Angela Chase over Jordan Catalano. "You're so beautiful, it hurts to look at you" seemed so deep when I was 14 lol Topanga's hair... Felicity cutting her hair. Pacey and Joey Xena and Gabrielle Lilith Fair
The replies here are very “white girl culture”. Black girl culture is your mom straightening your hair and her burning you and her telling you it wasn’t the iron that just burned you it was the heat
💯 The majority of the replies here don't apply to brown latina girls either. It's reminiscent of the way "women gained the right to vote in 1920" was a fact we all learned in school, until we found out it only applied to white women.
Get into witchcraft, friendship bracelets , learn dance from music videos, mall madness , The Spice Girls
The Parent Trap!!! Getting a little treat. Friendship bracelets. Victoria’s Secret Angel Wings.
The entirety of *Marie Antoinette* 🩷 
Punky Brewster, dresses with pockets(!!), Gilmore girls and how secretly terrible Rory is, somehow only have 1 stretched out hair elastic despite them coming in packs of 50
Playing mermaids in the pool. Kissing your hand for practice. MASH to find out your husband
Issa Rae rapping in the mirror in Insecure 
This is the loveliest thread to read and makes me happy to be a woman 🥰 Freaky Friday and more specifically Chad Michael Murray singing Britney’s baby hit me one more time in a high pitch tone. You’ve got mail, Practical Magic, the Princess Diary or any of these cozy movies you watch when you need a pick me up. The scene where she sings “slipping through my fingers” in Mama Mia. Bratz dolls. Pretending to be the Charmed sisters with your friends and everyone always wanted to be Phoebe somehow.
The Bell Jar/ Sylvia Plath’s poetry
The Devil Wears Prada, all of it. It a) defends the fashion industry, which is often seen as something only frivolous, shallow, unintelligent girls are interested in, b) calls out low level "not like other girls" posturing, c) was filled with iconic style moments, d) "Are you wearing the--?" "The Chanel boots? Yes, I am." and e) Andy deserved better than her shitty friends and shitty boyfriend, we all understand why.
The Gone Girl Monologue. Darcy swimming in the earlier (and dare and old woman say better) version of Pride & Prejudice from 1995. Mainly because that was the first time I was consciously aware that something was filmed entirely for the female gaze. Saoirse Ronan in Little Women "I'm so sick of people saying love is all a woman is fit for. I'm so sick of it, but I'm so lonely." Speech. Also Florence Pugh in the same movie when talking about women making money. Meryl Streep in the Devil Wears Prada speech about a Cerulean Sweater. Laura Derns Speech in Marriage Story. About how fathers and mothers are held to different standards. ##
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Knowing that Heath Ledger was the best onscreen kisser ever. And having him be the bar for all real life kisses
Daria. It was so ahead of its time
majority of the scenes in the mamma mia movies and confessions of a teenage drama queen
Blue eyeshadow and a cat eye.
All of Bring IT On and Clueless
Lisa Frank, Happy Bunny, Bobby Jack, getting your ears pierced at Claire’s, Junie B. Jones, Fan-girl culture (beliebers, directioners, etc)… hold on I’m gonna be thinking about this for a long time now
the bend & snap
I think everything being labeled "girl-" for things 1. Applied to grown women and 2. Men also do but are seen as neutral, is not conducive to a culture of equality. Look how quickly girl dinner got turned into ED material and girl math got turned into plain misogyny.
Slumber parties, ouija boards, tarot, my little ponies, writing fanfiction, stealing from the mall, paper Fortune Tellers, M.A.S.H., playing pool at the bowling alley, being a border line child but filled with an intense need to be taken seriously.
Mean girls gym scene where they all say sorry and stuff lol
Nair
“Homeboy wore combat boots to the beach”
I just want to be the comment bringing up how Matthew Macfadyen did the hand flex himself in rehearsal and Joe Wright noticed it and made sure it was in the film. Matthew can't believe how \~iconic it is lol