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The ur-text of the all-girl literary world is of course “Cat Person”, which is actually about combing through the Facebook and Instagram accounts of the younger and skinnier ex-girlfriend of the boringly non-toxic MFA-type guy you hooked up with. (The actual guy ended up killing himself or ODing a few years later.) There is a good story to be told about how this literary culture is parasitic upon the toxic male gaze it exists to decry.

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