In her book 'Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves', author Sophie Gilbert discusses the shift in feminist discourse from collective empowerment to objectification through media. As the concept of 'girl power' took hold in the late 1990s and 2000s, young women conflated sexual objectification with empowerment. Gilbert critiques the way reality TV, pornography, and celebrity culture perpetuated this narrative, reducing feminist achievements to superficial choices rather than promoting a deeper collective action agenda.
"What I remember from my own life during this period from the 2000s was that there was only one kind of power that women were being allowed, and that was sexual power."
"Gilbert's book skewers porn, reality TV, and celebrities for their complicity in relegating women to the role of sex object and for warping feminism into a debate over individual choices instead of collective action."
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