The Weird Girl Trope, Explained
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Everyone likes the idea of a weird girl but no one like the real weird girl.
I don't really think weird girls have been socially accepted, I think the aesthetic of weird girls has gotten co-opted as trends for consumers. The girl is still outcasted, but her clothes, her interests, her sense of humor have become folded into mainstream culture.
Just like "cool girl" is a male fantasy of a girl that is not like other girls (read: she's extremely convenient), "weird girl" is a female fantasy of a girl that's not like other people. It's the cool girl many of us actually want to be.
The Token Black Girl Trope NEEDS to happen
Everyone is socially accepted as long as they are attractive.
I hate how the weird girl quickly became the" i'm not like other girls" trope
I'd argue that society HASN'T become more accepting of the "weird girl," it's just expanded its definition of normal. As someone who went through high school with undiagnosed autism, I had a front-row seat to the dichotomy of the social acceptance offered to girls who were just different enough to be "quirky" in a way that was considered cute or endearing versus those considered truly weird. It was painful to watch others find an identity of admired independence in their slightly off-beat hobbies or interests while my struggles to speak or move normally enough to fit in, let alone navigate the bewildering landscape of acceptable fashion or interests or conversation, got me repeatedly mocked or rejected. Our cultural fetishization with the 'right sort' of weird just makes it that much more painful to be the 'wrong sort,' culminating in a sense that people like me can't even be WEIRD the right way.
Kendall Jenner once described herself as being the weird girl and I was like wtf lol
I’m mixed on the Weird Girl. Sometimes they’re the best character in the story and other times she’s just pretentious and almost as annoying as the very people she claims to hate.
I hate how being an outcast has been romanticised. Having people spreading rumours about you and relentlessly criticising you for things they don't critise others for is exhausting and takes a long time to learn to embrace.
Pfftt, no one is accepting of "weird girls" unless they are conventionally attractive...
"Wednesday's at an age where a girl only has one thing on her mind."
The weird girl is only accepted if she is conventionally attractive under it all. Dawn Wiener and Daria would still be made fun of and ostracized.
I've always been the weird girl, ostracized by peers ever since kindergarten up to college. Found out I'm autistic at 21. This entire trope unveils just how misogyny and ableism meet at the middle and treat neurodivergent women. I have enormous amounts of trauma from being denigrated for my characteristics my entire life, from family to peers to authority figures. Being looked at funny, verbally abused, ignored, humiliated, only to be used when convenient. No shit I have low esteem for others; they have never once treated me with kindness irrespective of my quirkiness.
"People may celebrate individuality in theory but when it comes to a weird girl, they feel she doesn't exhibit the right type of individuality"
Lol the lesbian rumors are honestly too real. My friends mom thought I was gay because I just wasn't interested in having a boyfriend at 14?? like cause I'm still a child???? Plot twist her daughter is now a lesbian and is happy dating a girl and we're also still friends to this day!
Problem is, “weird girls” can be labeled as “I’m not like other girls” without that person having any saying in the matter.
I didn't realize there was all this casual homophobia being thrown at the weird girl in movies
Being the lonely, weird, quirky girl a.k.a "not like other girls" is always fun and games until it's true.