"The Secret Life of Girls Around the World"

[handmade34]

I have a daughter that is struggling with all the craziness in the world. She sent me this... it hit her hard...

Written by Eve Ensler

"YOU TELL ME HOW TO BE A GIRL IN 2010...."

(lengthy but interesting read)
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400061044&view=excerpt

[Solly Mack]

1. k/r

[proteus_lives]

2. "Boys get everything they want"

Huh, I must have missed the man-meeting where they told us about that.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. Should have been there, bro.

Shit was cash.

[proteus_lives]

5. Dude, that sucks.

Working two jobs, I always miss the good meetings.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. Swing by the fort, we'll hook you up.

Later, brah.

[proteus_lives]

7. "Gives secret man-signal"

You got it dude.

[Name removed]

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[lumberjack_jeff]

10. You didn't miss much.

They also told us not to want jobs, long lives or an education.

[Hello_Kitty]

21. All of which is entirely the fault of women, amirite fellas? eom

[PDJane]

4. That's amazing.........

And I remember being constantly on the outside.......too tall, too pale, not pretty...the odd thing is that in university, I discovered that I didn't want to be one of the in crowd. Odd....one of the high school 'in' types later told me I was intimidating. Bizarre.

[AmandaRuth]

8. that is

heartbreakingly beautiful. Thanks, i am going to pass this one around.

[EmilyKent]

9. Really. Bad. Parenting.

Bad writing too. Goodness!

[REP]

13. I agree. Loathesome in every way

Are we supposed to feel sympathy for the cowardly, spoiled, whining brat in the narrative? Are we supposed to rise up and say, "Sing it, Sister Eve! Your out-of-touch tone-deaf over-wrought word slurm touched me as a woman!"?

I went to school with some fairly dumb girls, but they were brain surgeons in comparison to Engler's fantasies.

[Matariki]

20. Right. And Cather In The Rye sucks too

because Holden Caulfield is a pathetic whiner :eyes:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

15. I was waiting for her to demand new programming for the Discovery channel.

I mean, I get that it's stream of consciousness. But for fuck's sake, get a better consciousness.

Chief Bromden was more lucid than this shit.

[Matariki]

19. delete

wrong post.

[bluerum]

11. fabulous interview on a local public radio station - see link in message body

Eve Ensler on Global Girlhood

[AsahinaKimi]

12. wow.

just, wow!

[Fleshdancer]

14. As a mother and a daughter....

I completely understand this and am deeply moved and saddened by it. Such an amazing excerpt. Thank you so much for posting this.

[hayu_lol]

16. Thats what I see in the generation she is describing...

extraordinary work.

[phasma ex machina]

17. Her writing exudes a stream-of-conscientious charm with a beat. nt

[Matariki]

18. Damn.

wow.

[ShamelessHussy]

22. wow, thanks for sharing

:toast: