This may include wearing pink, using make-up, using perfume, having long hair, having long nails, dressing in dresses, skirts, pantyhoses and heels, and engaging in activities that are traditionally associated with femininity, such as talking about relationships.
[1] The term is often used in a derogatory manner, but it can also be used in a more positive way, especially when considering the fluidity of gender roles.
[2] Being a "girly girl" can then be seen as a fluid and partially embodied position – a form of discourse taken up, discarded or modified for tactical or strategic purposes.
[3][4] The female opposite of a girly girl is a tomboy.
The increasing prevalence of girly girls in the early 21st century has been linked to a supposed "post-feminist, post–new man construction of masculinity and femininity in mutually exclusive terms",[5] as opposed to the more blurred gender representations of previous decades.