As a consequence, the radical aspects of transgressive femininities like those of Jodie’s are undermined by their implicit compliance with gender hierarchies. Being one of the boys seems to result in greater social power but it conscripts Jodie into processes Sharon Thompson (1994) identifies as ‘raging misogyny’. In my field notes, there are 16 examples of Jodie asserting that ‘boys are better than girls’. Jodie’s case is an extreme example of the ways in which girls’ ventriloquising of the dominant culture’s denigration of femininity and female relations can serve to disconnect them from other girls (Brown, 1998).