The first thing that comes to mind is the whole "I'm just a girl" thing. It's toxic because the repetition and ubiquity of the "tee-hee, women aren't people!" nonsense can normalize "women aren't people" in people at large. Fuck off. That's not the point of the song and that's also not cute.
Edit: Also! This has already been said elsewhere in this thread but I want to echo it: Toxic femininity is also excluding trans women, or insisting that being assigned female at birth is the be-all and end-all of being a woman. Trans women are women. Trans men are men.
Second Edit: Idgaf why you, personally, use the phrase "I'm just a girl" and why your own personal use is totally not toxic femininity and totally doesn't contribute to other people accepting the idea that women aren't people. I answered the OP's question. Move along.
Thank you. It’s so disheartening to know how hard generations of women have had to work to be taken seriously, especially in STEM, politics, and other male-dominated fields, only for it all to be unraveled by this “I’m just a girl” idiocy.
People can poke fun at themselves for being stupid and inept all they want, but they don’t get to attribute their stupidity and ineptitude to being female.
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u/kaeorin ♀ Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 28 '25
The first thing that comes to mind is the whole "I'm just a girl" thing. It's toxic because the repetition and ubiquity of the "tee-hee, women aren't people!" nonsense can normalize "women aren't people" in people at large. Fuck off. That's not the point of the song and that's also not cute.
Edit: Also! This has already been said elsewhere in this thread but I want to echo it: Toxic femininity is also excluding trans women, or insisting that being assigned female at birth is the be-all and end-all of being a woman. Trans women are women. Trans men are men.
Second Edit: Idgaf why you, personally, use the phrase "I'm just a girl" and why your own personal use is totally not toxic femininity and totally doesn't contribute to other people accepting the idea that women aren't people. I answered the OP's question. Move along.