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The artist turns the self-actualization aphorism “Fake it till you make it” into the work’s self-deprecating title, as if faking can only result in fakes.

As in the original film, the latest Cady is a quick study and soon learns her new habitat’s rules on her way to self-actualization and group acceptance.

The show stresses that Elle has struggled with her identity partially because of the lack of acceptance from ignorant people, and partly because she's a teenager who's still on her journey to self-actualization.

Its conclusions about self-actualization pull less attention, as is the way of all innocuous, pleasing outcomes.

And yet the self-actualization of Ingalls’ heroines isn’t quite independent; it still comes through a male vector.