{"id":1547,"date":"2014-11-15T10:15:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T10:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moebius77.com\/blog2\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2014-11-15T10:15:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T10:15:27","slug":"la-cool-girl-de-gillian-flynn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moebius77.com\/blog2\/2014\/11\/la-cool-girl-de-gillian-flynn\/","title":{"rendered":"La “cool girl” de Gillian Flynn"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Gone girl”, la novela que inspir\u00f3 la pel\u00edcula de Fincher, es uno de los libros m\u00e1s decepcionantes que he le\u00eddo este a\u00f1o. La pel\u00edcula est\u00e1 perfectamente adaptada, as\u00ed que los que vieron la cinta tendr\u00e1n la misma impresi\u00f3n: un excelente comienzo, un manejo incre\u00edble del suspenso, un ritmo taimado y bien logrado… Hasta que pasas de la mitad del libro (o de la peli), donde la autora intenta “explicar” todo y cae en grados m\u00e1s o menos elevados de inverosimilitud que llegan hasta el rid\u00edculo y lo incre\u00edble.<\/p>\n

La verdad que es una l\u00e1stima, porque la primera mitad de la novela est\u00e1 muy bien.<\/p>\n

Es all\u00ed donde encontramos el retrato de la joven pareja americana, vapuleada por la econom\u00eda en recesi\u00f3n y obligada a abandonar sus sue\u00f1os.<\/p>\n

Tambi\u00e9n aparece el an\u00e1lisis de “cool girl”, el arquetipo de la chica norteamericana y de sus valores capitalistas contempor\u00e1neos. Es, a mi parecer, la mejor parte del libro (que se menciona apenas en la peli), una autopsia de las relaciones entre los hombres y las mujeres en un mundo de telerealidad, de redes sociales caracterizadas por el ego\u00edsmo egoc\u00e9ntrico y de una sexualidad gobernada por la pornograf\u00eda y las tristes im\u00e1genes de pseudo divas frot\u00e1ndose en una canci\u00f3n de stripper-pop<\/em> y diciendo que son “artistas”. La “cool girl” de Flynn es la s\u00edntesis de esta sociedad, sus traumas y sus complejos:<\/p>\n

“Men always say that as the defining compliment, don\u2019t they? She\u2019s a cool girl.<\/strong> Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she\u2019s hosting the world\u2019s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don\u2019t mind, I\u2019m the Cool Girl. Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they\u2019re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl.<\/p>\n

For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men \u2013 friends, coworkers, strangers \u2013 giddy over these awful pretender women, and I\u2019d want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who\u2019d like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them. I\u2019d want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or messenger bag and say: The bitch doesn\u2019t really love chili dogs that much \u2013 no one loves chili dogs that much! And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They\u2019re not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they\u2019re pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be. Oh, and if you\u2019re not a Cool Girl, I beg you not to believe that your man doesn\u2019t want the Cool Girl. It may be a slightly different version \u2013 maybe he\u2019s a vegetarian, so Cool Girl loves seitan and is great with dogs; or maybe he\u2019s a hipster artist, so Cool Girl is a tattooed, bespectacled nerd who loves comics. There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn\u2019t ever complain. (How do you know you\u2019re not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: \u2018I like strong women.\u2019 If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. Because \u2018I like strong women\u2019 is code for \u2018I hate strong women.\u2019) I waited patiently \u2013 years \u2013 for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we\u2019d say, Yeah, he\u2019s a Cool Guy. But it never happened.
\nInstead, women across the nation colluded in our degradation! Pretty soon Cool Girl became the standard girl. Men believed she existed \u2013 she wasn\u2019t just a dreamgirl one in a million. Every girl was supposed to be this girl, and if you weren\u2019t, then there was something wrong with you. But it\u2019s tempting to be Cool Girl. For someone like me, who likes to win, it\u2019s tempting to want to be the girl every guy wants. When I met Nick, I
\nknew immediately that was what he wanted, and for him, I guess I was willing to try. I will accept my portion of blame. The thing is, I was crazy about him at first. I found
\nhim perversely exotic, a good ole Missouri boy. He was so damn nice to be around. He teased things out in me that I didn\u2019t know existed: a lightness, a humor, an ease. It was as if he hollowed me out and filled me with feathers. He helped me be Cool Girl \u2013 I couldn\u2019t have been Cool Girl with anyone else. I wouldn\u2019t have wanted to. I can\u2019t say I didn\u2019t enjoy some of it: I ate a MoonPie, I walked barefoot, I stopped worrying. I watched dumb movies and ate chemically laced foods. I didn\u2019t think past the first step of anything, that was the key. I drank a Coke and didn\u2019t worry about how to recycle the can or about the acid puddling in my belly, acid so powerful it could strip clean a penny. We went to a
\ndumb movie and I didn\u2019t worry about the offensive sexism or the lack of minorities in meaningful roles. I didn\u2019t even worry whether the movie made sense. I didn\u2019t worry
\nabout anything that came next. Nothing had consequence, I was living in the moment, and I could feel myself getting shallower and dumber. But also happy”.<\/p>\n

Como dicen los gringos: Ignorance is bliss<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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