Enabling girls to perform femininity is fine, but what is defined as feminine is dependant by race. White girls can be girly-girls without judgement because, as McIntosh mentioned, white individuals are the ideal race. For African American girls, however, assuming that girly-girl image may help them blend in, but they may also see themselves as selling out (Wade and Ferree 2015:93). Asian American girls can take on the girly-girl image too, though they will still have a docile assumption attached to them. Through intersectionality, one can acknowledge that performing a gender strategy that works for oneself is okay, but gender strategies vary across races.…