UK: Teenage girls have overtaken boys as the new gross-out merchants

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'They have entirely missed the point. Did you spot the age of the protagonist? Teenage, right? And she's female. And those two things qualify her as a member of the new gross-out generation. It is true that teenage boys, and the teenage boy in every man, have long had a monopoly on disgust. From the Earl of Rochester to Philip Roth, the boys have loved the shock of the “eww!” Our daughters may be made of sugar and spice, but it is not for them that the notorious apple pie scene in American Pie was made. Horrible Histories, the gross-out children's books, are marketed for boys.

Teenage girls are applauded for overtaking their male classmates on most officially gradeable targets. With their typical thoroughness, they now excel in this previously exclusively male skill too: the ability to make a joke about a wet sock, and, for an A*, laugh about it while snorting milk through the nose.'