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What is "Girl Mode"

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AvocadoBathroom · 30/12/2020 11:33

A non question for actual women. What is "girl mode"?
To me it's a very youth orientated fetishy definition which feels a bit like My Little Pony.

I stopped calling myself a girl at the point I hit around 20 I think. I dont think of myself as a girl, I think of myself as a woman, especially once I had children.

I think it's odd to describe yourself as a girl if you are a middle aged man. I'm trying to imagine an older woman describing herself as being in "boy mode" and all I can think of is Jimmy Krankee.

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bellinisurge · 30/12/2020 15:01

Wankers, literal and metaphorical, call grown women "girls"

Justhadathought · 30/12/2020 14:58

'Girl mode' is definitely a sexually oriented term - suggestive of flirtatious coquetry and flamboyant emotional & gestural expression.
From someone who, maybe, is permanently conscious of how they are presenting at any one time. It is all about superficial observational presentations distilled into an art form.

ZenNudist · 30/12/2020 14:58

I got a compliment from the CEO of my company but he called me a girl in the process. My reaction "I'm not a girl!" You could see all the senior people around me wince, but it was a natural reaction at 40! I look young, but still...

I have friends who invite "just the girls" but its not a phrase I use.

So e people I know use girly to mean shopping and beautifying activities but its not something I'd say.

I can't get my head around adults, male or female having "girl mode". I dont really have modes girl or otherwise.

CuriousaboutSamphire · 30/12/2020 14:54

At the moment my personal girl mode is my almost 60 year old body remembering it used to be a boxercise instructor and delivering a devastating left, right, knee combo to the face of the loud mouthed male twat uttering such poppycock!

I swear I flexed my knees, cracked my knuckles and ran through the strikes in my head... Eddie had best stay out of Gloucestershire!!!

zanahoria · 30/12/2020 14:34

As I understand , girl mode is grown men hanging around womens toilets and bravely squaring up to teenage girls

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SheldonesqueIsUnwell · 30/12/2020 14:24

That picture. And the hat.

Oh the humanity...

Which won’t be great again until men stop thinking that they are the only ones who are great.

bornatXmastobequiet · 30/12/2020 14:17

That pic of Eddie is what my resting bitch face aspires to. And I’m quite a frightening teacher.

SheldonesqueIsUnwell · 30/12/2020 14:10

Girl mode could also be what you slink to when you realise you look like a pound shop Bowie.

BigFatLiar · 30/12/2020 14:09

Never heard of it, heard lots of women talk about being with the girls which always seems a bit odd if you're all out of your teens. Being in your 50s and going out with the girls sounds a bit daft, why not just go out with your friends.

FunkBus · 30/12/2020 14:05

If any famous woman looked as rough as Eddie does in that photo upthread, she'd never work again.

UppityPuppity · 30/12/2020 14:01

Girl mode is perv mode.

We all know it. That’s why it is so popular.

Delete me too...

SheldonesqueIsUnwell · 30/12/2020 13:58

For me, girl mode is choosing to dress in clothes that most women would burn (although it wouldn’t burn - it would melt), complete with letterbox red lipstick on their little letterbox mouths and giggling coquettishly.

It also means that they keep the jewels in case a lucrative job comes a calling and they need to switch back to boy mode sharpish.

It is also a chance to use the Emperor’s new pronouns.

One would wonder what kind of entertainment they watch to choose to be in girl mode rather than woman mode.

Vermeil · 30/12/2020 13:55

I’ve no longer got any tits or ovaries because being female nearly killed me, but I am wearing a dress today, so..? 🤷‍♀️

MondayYogurt · 30/12/2020 13:54

@despairenting

It's when men get all giggly and enjoy skirts that go spinny and make-up and glitter and such things. It has nothing to do with actual womanhood and they can very much enjoy those things without claiming to be female, if they so wish.
Confirmed.
What is "Girl Mode"
What is "Girl Mode"
ThatIsNotMyUsername · 30/12/2020 13:50

Please don’t mention the crankies... need the brain bleach now. Thanks guys...

CatsCantCatchChristmas2 · 30/12/2020 13:49

Jimmy Krankee!

Fucking priceless! I love it here.

jay55 · 30/12/2020 13:40

Surely when Eddie was a young man, glam rock and then New Romantics were all the rage and he could have played with all the makeup and glitter he wanted without many batting an eye.

I think young men born in the 90s have had far less opportunity for experimentation than those born in the 50s-80s.

twinkletoedelephant · 30/12/2020 13:40

:58ThatIsNotMyUsername dam you I've been winning fir ages

JohnMcClane · 30/12/2020 13:40

Lets not beat about the bush. This is a certain individual forcing others to participate in their kink, which lets be honest they have form for.

ThatIsNotMyUsername · 30/12/2020 13:39

So it’s a choice to present oneself in a sexist and possibly sexualised ‘ikkle girl’ child mode? Like the personage in Canada ?

Flapjak · 30/12/2020 13:33

Mattell should a ken doll with girl mode , option of removable penis. Kit involves gold handbag, wig and lipstick.

persistentwoman · 30/12/2020 13:22

Otherwise known as "narcissist mode"

TinselAngel · 30/12/2020 13:21

I think it's a type of transition which retains the option of slipping back into "boy mode", whenever it is financially beneficial to do so.

MrsFogi · 30/12/2020 13:13

It is misogynistic, sexist, fetishising with big hairy bollocks swinging about.
No man should be able to claim they are in "girl mode" unless it is also okay for people to claim they are in "[insert age] mode", [insert ethnic group] mode, [insert animal] mode, [insert level of beauty] mode, [insert level of intelligence] mode" etc etc and everyone around them applaud and unquestioningly accept them for whatever mode they claim to be in that day.
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