This is the perfect nonfiction book to recommend to a white, liberal millennial woman, not because it's inherently bad, but because it doesn't push very hard against anything. It sort of regurgitates a lot of things you probably already know about feminism in the 2000s (especially if you lived through it), which feels validating, for sure, and also a little painful to relive. I can't decide if the fact that so much of the pop culture examined in *Mean Girls 2.0: Pop Culture's War on Women* is wh...

Sophie Gilbert's "Mean Girls 2.0: Pop Culture's War on Women" is a sharp and enraging look at how 90s & 00s culture warped feminism into something regressive through the sexualization of “it girls,” the cruelty of tabloids, and the rise of internet porn. It's clear that these dynamics didn’t just impact celebrities but shaped the way all women thought about themselves, and, in turn, how they were treated. As far as "book reviews" go, this one hits hard. I especially enjoyed the opening and the ...

This is precisely why I tend to avoid non-fiction. "Mean Girls 2.0: Pop Culture's War on Women" by Sophie Gilbert? A solid five-star read, absolutely. But it left me seething, with the unsettling feeling that I’ve been played my entire life. The way women are treated, as exposed in Sophie Gilbert's book, is utter garbage. If you're looking for insightful **book reviews** that make you think, read "Mean Girls 2.0: Pop Culture's War on Women."

Sophie Gilbert was inspired to write "Mean Girls 2.0: Pop Culture's War on Women" by the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Her goal is to illuminate how, even in recent years, mainstream culture has reveled in the violation, shaming, and humiliation of women. We've seen quite a few books lately about how the media exploited Britney and Paris, and how the Kardashians have warped body image (to their own detriment, if you believe them). But Gilbert dives much deeper, focusing especially on the pornificatio...

3.5 StarsI'm a bit torn on how to rate this, because I think Sophie Gilbert largely succeeded in what she set out to do with "Mean Girls 2.0: Pop Culture's War on Women": cataloging the past few decades of interaction between pop culture, women, and feminism across various topics. You get everything from the riot grrrl to pop star transition, housewives and reality TV, the 'confessional first-person female writer' persona, #girlboss, and lots more. The problem is, if you've paid a decent amount ...

I feel like the subtitle of "Mean Girls 2.0: Pop Culture's War on Women" is a bit misleading. I definitely wasn't expecting almost half the book to be a super detailed description of the graphic and violent sexual acts women have gone through in different media over the last 30 years. And honestly, I'm not really sure what the point of Sophie Gilbert's book is supposed to be? It doesn't feel like any of the analysis or observations offered anything new. It reads like a way longer, and unnecessar...

Honestly, it's a miracle any of us survived. Sophie Gilbert's *Mean Girls 2.0: Pop Culture's War on Women* lays bare the battlefield. A must-read for anyone navigating the modern minefield of online culture and its impact on women. If you are looking for insightful book reviews, look no further.

(3.5 stars) Sophie Gilbert's *Mean Girls 2.0: Pop Culture's War on Women* is investigative journalism at its core, examining how women in the West have been portrayed and analyzed through media, entertainment, and politics. If you're plugged into current events and pop culture, you might feel like there's not a ton of *brand new* information here. However, the book's effectiveness lies in compiling all the history, examples, and incidents in one place – the evidence is relentless. It really forc...

Wow, I was completely blown away by Sophie Gilbert's *Mean Girls 2.0: Pop Culture's War on Women*. Gilbert examines the ways women have been portrayed over the last 35 years of pop culture, with a specific focus on the Y2K era. For millennials especially, this is an invitation to look back on the era that shaped us…and reflect on the many ways in which it was completely messed up. Yes, a reporter really did write about how he ascertained 18-year-old Lindsay Lohan’s boobs were real (she said so, ...

So good, so important, absolutely required reading for millennial women, millennials, women, and everyone else. I'm here for the vindication of *Girls* as feminist, here for the girlboss/lean in takedowns, here for the analysis of hip hop culture taking refuge in misogyny when it needed somewhere to punch down to. Sophie Gilbert’s analysis of female autofiction in **Mean Girls 2.0: Pop Culture's War on Women** was also just 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻++++Review for LARB here:https://lareviewofbooks.org/article...