Why do so many bestselling novels have “girl” in their title? Maybe it was inspired by Larsson’s “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” and such. But author Emily St. John Mandel says the trend in titles started before Larsson’s books were released. Perhaps it’s a natural phenomenon. Mandel notes this interesting data point:
The “girl” in the title is much more likely to be a woman than an actual girl, and the author of the book is more likely to be a woman. But if a book with “girl” in the title was written by a man, the girl is significantly more likely to end up dead.
This is very interesting, especially considering the strident insistence of feminists that the word “girl” is demeaning to women.
Yes, and not every author is happy with his or her title. But feminists also undermine themselves constantly, such that we can’t take them as a group. We have to divide into camps or even individuals.