Taylor Swift and Sophie Turner are the moment. The pair have been seen dining together twice in New York this week (honestly, these pics have been my Roman Empire) amid the ongoing drama that is Sophie’s divorce to Joe Jonas. Yet, are we really surprised that they have been dining together? After all, Taylor has always been a girl’s girl.
A girl’s girl, according to one TikTok user, is someone who “respects other girls and understands girl code”. User @emilylulamay, also explained several tips to being a ‘girl’s girl’ in her video, which has been viewed over 870,000 times.
“Don’t lie to your girlfriends,” she says. “For example, if one of your friends say ‘oh, should I get this haircut’ and you know it will look bad on them, don’t say yes. Don’t lie to them.”
Other ‘rules’ she shared include telling your friend if they have spinach in their teeth or if they have smudged makeup, not gatekeeping where they got certain clothes or products, supporting your friends rather than being jealous of them, not gossiping, and putting other girls first.
At its essence, a girl’s girl is a woman who supports other women and uplifts her girlfriends. The kind of girl who will dress up with you to go to a Beyonce concert, or who will arduously take pictures of you for Insta until you get the perfect shot.
One Reddit user described a girl’s girl as the opposite of a ‘pick me’ girl. “You don’t put down other women in an effort to get male validation or to make yourself appear ‘not like other girls’,” user @BonnyDraws wrote. “A girl’s girl’s goal is to be supportive to other women, and defend women against any targeted harassment. They don’t see girls as competition but as comrades.”
The evidence that Taylor is a girl’s girl has been stark since the beginning. In her debut album Fearless, she wrote about becoming besties with Abigail Anderson, crying alongside her during a breakup, and who she is still friends with now nearly two decades later. She also all but coined the term ‘girl squad’ during her 1989 era, regularly spotted with pals like Selena Gomez, Blake Lively, and Gigi Hadid.