Brittany Pettibone

Brittany Pettibone became an online political influencer and published a book whose public context has been examined in peer-reviewed research on far-right digital culture. What Makes Us Girls presents her argument about self-worth for women and older girls. Reason Books issued the 2018 edition as What Makes Us Girls: And Why It’s All Worth It. Pettibone organizes its chapters around comparison, rejection, bullying, inauthenticity, purposelessness, betrayal, and guilt, drawing on personal examples and accounts attributed to other women. The book treats individual responsibility, character, and relationships through Pettibone’s stated cultural outlook rather than offering a neutral psychology survey. Ico Maly’s digital-ethnography study places both the work and its author within her wider use of influencer practices for political communication. That documented context helps readers distinguish the book’s practical advice structure from the ideological framework shaping its claims.