CREDIT: AP Photo/Fox, Beth Dubber Mindy Lahiri is not a cool girl. That is: Lahiri, the character Mindy Kaling plays on The Mindy Project, is not a Cool Girl, as brilliantly described by Gillian Flynn in Gone Girl. A Cool Girl is nothing more than “the figment of the imagination of a million masturbatory men” and is “basically the girl who likes every fucking thing [a guy] likes and doesn’t ever complain.” Cool Girls aren’t a new phenomenon, but they are getting some very funny and thoughtful treatment as of late.