Everyone Is a Girl Online

The essay argues that the "girl" has become a dominant condition of online life, and that in the post-platform economy everyone is effectively a girl online, including men and even some AI systems. It draws on Andrea Long Chu's 2018 book Females, which defines the female as "any psychic operation in which the self is sacrificed to make room for the desires of another," and on Tiqqun's 1999 Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl. Bogna Konior, an assistant professor at NYU Shanghai, is quoted saying that girls are "closer to the machinic condition." The article concludes that the girl's apparent passivity is a chosen tactic for evading platform capture, not a surrender of agency.