"I would have gone to my grave peacefully had I never been reminded of the smug, horny entitlement of young men in the two-thousands—the Tucker Maxes and Adam Carollas..."

"... or the pressure I felt to find their humor funny or smart. I did not enjoy being reacquainted with male journalists’ gratuitous comments about teen girls’ breasts in Rolling Stone, or the haranguing of diet books like 'Skinny Bitch' ('You need to exercise, you lazy shit'). I had repressed all memory of the ghastly reality-TV show 'The Swan,' in which desperate and body-dysmorphic women undergo a series of plastic surgeries and are then assessed by a panel of judges so that one may be crowned 'the swan' among ugly ducklings...."

Writes Dayna Tortorici, in "What Did the Pop Culture of the Two-Thousands Do to Millennial Women?/'Girl on Girl,' by the critic Sophie Gilbert, is the latest and most ambitious in a series of consciousness-raising-style reappraisals of the decade’s formative texts" (The New Yorker).