People have long speculated about why girls love horses, according to Peggy Orenstein, author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture.

Think of it as an evolution of the VSCO girl — the ... stickers of cheeky quotes, pop lyrics, and, naturally, bookish memes. Here’s a pretty standard Kindle girlie example from Savannah ...

Case in point: Being repeatedly called a “girly-girl” on the Marvel set. “It was a joke, but on ‘Spider-Man,’ they would call me ‘girly-girl’ sometimes on the walkie-talkie.

I have to admit. I love being a girly girl. I love perfume, lipstick, platformed shoes, cleavage, chocolate, nail varnish, ice-cream, rom-coms, glitter and hell, I even love beautiful gemstones.