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[quote=Anonymous]It is incredibly hard to be a girl. When you're 9 or so and begin puberty, you suddenly realize you're an object and no longer a person. Men start appraising how you look. By the time you're 12, it seems like you're fair game and you're having to fend off really inappropriate and unwanted contact and perceptions. Your parents hound you for how you dress because of what people might thing. Your friends vie to look the most grown up to gain societal approval for being appropriately feminine. Strangers treat you like a sexual object. And you're not even a teenager.

You don't see boys having to deal with all that. They still get to hang out. Be goofy. Be irresponsible. You don't see them get harassed or attacked. No one's warning them all the ways they can be raped or assaulted.

It looks a lot nicer to be a boy. And it's really, desperately uncomfortable being a girl, even before we start dealing with the annoyance of suddenly having boobs everywhere or having to deal with a period.

And no one talks about it. I'm 50, and puberty was absolute hell for me. I was more prepared to help my daughters go through it, and one of them still found it hellish, and is just coming to her peace with everything at 17 (for now, I have no doubt she's going to have future issues with what it means to be a woman in our society).

Who wouldn't want to be a boy instead? You don't get constantly judged on being appropriately feminine. Maybe you'll even avoid being raped or assaulted. Wouldn't that be worth it, instead of getting all these messages that the world is going to treat you terribly, then blame you for it?[/quote]

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