Academic Selves

I did not like what Pipher wrote about at all. I disagree that girls are less intelligent than boys, the girls in my classes were alway the outspoken and smarter ones. Maybe Pipher's classroom experience was different than mine, but she seemed to be putting down girls' intelligence as a whole. She's generalizing that all girls aren' as confident and intelligent as boys are and I don't think that's true. Reading this essay insulted me, never in my life I put becoming popular in front of my studies. That is so stupid to put something like that in front of your education. Pipher seemed old fashioned, she is stuck thinking that women are only housewives who are dainty. But today's girls aren't; Pipher left out that there are some women who do make it as doctors. Statistics show that more and more women today are going to college. They are getting their degrees and they are having very successful careers. On a personal level, more of my female friends pursued in the more complex classes and moved on to going to college. Pipher only focused on the girls with low self esteem and claimed her findings as the whole population of girls. These girls shes focused on seemed like the type of girl who is not involved in any extracurricular activity that builds confidence. Why do you think our society has something called Girl Scouts? Their motto clearly states that Girl Scouts is there to create strong girls. Girl Scouts has definitely helped create stronger and more confident women today.