What about the boys?

In EC, Eve Ensler ignored the fact that growing girls are not the only people in pain. She talks about body image, sex, pregnancy, etc… but she wrote this book as if these problems do not happen as frequently, if at all, to boys of the same age. Even the title of the book is too specific to young girls. Teenage boys worry just as much as girls do even though some of their issues maybe different, overall they can be very similar. While girls feel pressured to be skinny and have bigger breasts, boys fret over being muscular and developing larger than their friends. Girls don’t want to be called sluts but boys are terrified of being called gay. She writes about adults’ impressions on teenagers but often implies that the boys are the ones that grow up and become the adult that judges and misleads the girls. In “You Tell Me How to be a Girl in 2010”, she rants about the many disasters in the world like war, environmental destruction, etc which is the result of the “authoritarian maniacs” “premiers, czars, and presidents” who all happen to be men. In the first two lines she writes, “Questions, doubt, ambiguity, and dissent have somehow become very unmasculine” as if it is a fact women are unable to make a difference. “What Don’t You Like About Being a Girl?” reinforces her writing. “Girls can’t control anything, Boys can do anything they want…People thinking you are weak…Girls can’t work even though, they are educated.” This is a stereotype that can be avoided but when it is reinforced by every feminist writer, it will continue for every generation of teenagers. Its easy to make a collection of stories to bolster a radical point but letting the reader develop their own opinion of feminism in a young girls life shows true talent.