Opinion: ‘Girl Dinner’ in Horror and The Fear of a Hungry Woman (2024)

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In an era where women’ girlboss’ and do ‘girlmath’ with their ‘gorgeous gorgeous girlies’ during ‘hot girl summer’ and eat their ‘girl dinner’, is there anything scarier than an unconstrained appetite of a woman whose ‘girl dinner’ refuses to be a marketing spectacle of ‘femininity’? A woman’s hunger in horror wrestles her desire with her shame. But she gorges anyway in a way we have longed to do in our guilt.

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‘Girl Dinner’ in Horror: The Fear of a Hungry Woman

Since mid-2023, ‘girl dinner’ has been trending on TikTok and Instagram. For those less acquainted with social media, ‘girl dinner’ involves women enjoying an assemblage of low-effort snacks or leftovers from their fridges as meals. TikTok user Olivia Maher coined the term with an accompanying jingle, dubbing her plate of bread, cheese, pickles, wine, and grapes as a ‘medieval peasant’-inspired ‘girl dinner’.