Even though it is difficult to argue with Mary Pipher, who is a practicing psychologist, family therapist, cultural anthropologist, and must be a real expert in the field of gender-related issues, there is still something that I don’t agree with.
Yes, it’s true that girls profoundly change with the onset of adolescence but why there is a generalization that all girls loose their selves and the only thing they start to do is just pleasing the people around them? I believe that puberty can become a great stimulus for some of the girls. I remember in my elementary school there were girls who seemed diffident, intimidated and with a heap of complexes. And in high school nobody could recognize them. These girls have blossomed: all complexes vanished and now they were the most pretty and self-confident people.
So, puberty is a turning point in teenagers’ lives but it is not necessarily a point to the erroneous direction.
Good first entry! I can tell that you're engaging with the text. Work on bringing in even more concrete specifics from text to support your thoughts about the article.
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