Girls
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Well, that
girls
are fragile and more in need of help, and that boys can and should master difficult tasks by themselves.
It says that
girls
should be fearful and boys should be gutsy.
Now, the irony is that at this young age,
girls
and boys are actually very alike physically.
In fact,
girls
are often stronger until puberty, and more mature.
And yet we adults act as if
girls
are more fragile and more in need of help, and they can't handle as much.
But the problem is when fear is the primary reaction that we teach and encourage in
girls
whenever they face something outside their comfort zone.
Now, I'm not saying your
girls
must be firefighters or that they should be paragliders, but I am saying that we are raising our
girls
to be timid, even helpless, and it begins when we caution them against physical risk.
So first, we have to take a deep breath and encourage our
girls
to skateboard, climb trees and clamber around on that playground fire pole.
Second, we have to stop cautioning our
girls
willy-nilly.
We cannot teach our
girls
until we teach ourselves.
And while
girls
should be getting outside to learn to be gutsy, I get that adults don't want to get on hoverboards or climb trees, so we all should be practicing at home, in the office and even right here getting up the guts to talk to someone that you really admire.
This is about the life ahead of her and that she has the tools to handle and assess all the dangers that we cannot protect her from, all the challenges that we won't be there to guide her through, everything that our
girls
here and around the world face in their future.
But somehow he didn't include the idea of
girls'
difference in this thinking.
We have to find a way of stopping young
girls
and women feeling not only that their story doesn't matter, but they're not allowed to be the storyteller.
All over the world,
girls
and women are being told that they can't finally hold the idea of creative inspiration.
I spent three years talking to
girls
ages 15 to 20 about their attitudes and experience of sex.
"I guess we
girls
are just socialized to be these docile creatures who don't express our wants or needs."
It was that
girls
didn't want them to.
Girls
expressed a sense of shame around their genitals.
Yet, Debby Herbenick, a researcher at Indiana University, believes that
girls'
genital self-image is under siege, with more pressure than ever to see them as unacceptable in their natural state.
Girls
would tell me that hair removal made them feel cleaner, that it was a personal choice.
Labiaplasty, which is the trimming of the inner and outer labia, is the fastest-growing cosmetic surgery among teenage
girls.
It rose 80 percent between 2014 and 2015, and whereas
girls
under 18 comprise two percent of all cosmetic surgeries, they are five percent of labiaplasty.
Now, admittedly, and blessedly, the number of
girls
involved is still quite small, but you could see them as canaries in a coal mine, telling us something important about the way
girls
see their bodies.
Honestly, I think those questions are tricky and sometimes traumatic for adult women to confront, but when we're talking about girls, I just kept coming back to the idea that their early sexual experience shouldn't have to be something that they get over.
Listening to all of this and thinking about it, I began to realize that we performed a kind of psychological clitoridectomy on American
girls.
Parents of baby
girls
go right from navel to knees, and they leave this whole situation in here unnamed.
Then kids go into their puberty education classes and they learn that boys have erections and ejaculations, and
girls
have ... periods and unwanted pregnancy.
No surprise, fewer than half of teenage
girls
age 14 to 17 have ever masturbated.
Girls'
investment in their partner's pleasure remains regardless of the gender of the partner.
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