Analytical Paper American culture is full of mixed messages and conflicting ideas. Society is far from perfect, especially when it has unrealistic expectations for its teenage girls. In pop culture, it is deemed inappropriate to display androgynous behavior, the ability to act freely without worrying if their behavior is feminine or masculine, once an individual has matured through the childhood years. Research has shown that androgynous people are in fact the most well adjusted adults (…showed first 75 words of 1483 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1483 total…girls be able to act however they want? That would make sense, but it is simply not the case. As Pipher declares in Reviving Ophelia, girls are simply expected to sacrifice the parts of themselves that our culture considers masculine. If we do not let girls read this type of literature, then our society will be one in which all girls look, act, talk, dress, and think the same. Is that what we really want?