Where did this thing come from? Along with the stereotype of girls drinking coffee and eating nothing else? And the “almond mom” thing? Do women not eat? What’s the history of this cultural thingy?
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I threw this in a comment but posting this as its own comment bc I don’t see girl dinner as a harmful stereotype and it’s not about girls not eating. What it was and is was grown ass women finally admitting to each other and to the public that we do *not* adhere to the stereotype of cooking a full meal each night for ourselves or family. Girl Dinner is a nickname for the coping mechanism we use when we can’t be bothered to cook a “full” or completely giant/well rounded nutritious meal for ourselves and our families. We do not have that desire nor need to do that labor every single night.
Instead girl dinner is where we simply take a bunch of random stuff that we feel like eating (important to feed ourselves food we actually want) and eat that instead. The total amount of food is not problematic or telling girls not to eat. It is that we take a lot of food from a lot of different sources – so a handful of blueberries plus some chicken nuggets plus some Reese’s pieces etc etc until we have a very easy, randomly put together, satisfying meal that we *actually* want to eat – but it does not adhere to what society would call a well balanced meal. It is a highly feminist idea and by real women sharing their real lives with each other we finally realized that we all love to feed ourselves whatever we want, no matter how random it is and that was a very powerful thing – hence the viral nature of it.
It is nothing like almond moms, or people who are restricting eating for weight or body image issues. Girl dinner is about listening to our bodies and giving them what it wants and not feeling bad about it bc society says it’s not a “real” meal.
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