Title: We are not helpless saplings
Product review: This book in not an eyeopener. Pipher is simply stating the obvious, over and over again. It does not take a Ph.D to realize that society harms girls like myself. She also portray us to be helpless victims floundering in a misogynistic (a word she throw around too freely) culture. As a psychologist, doesn't she realize that depression cannot be blamed on the world? It is a chemical imbalance of the brain, proven to be severely intensified by changing hormones. She generalizes, stereotypes (the rich girl, the poor girl, the anorexic girl, the smart girl), and does not seem to see her clients as individuals.As a teenage girl, I was not impressed. I am not a sapling in the wind, I am something far more resilient and righteous. If you want to read about the way adolescent girls feel and are, why don't you ask one, instead of hearing a story filtered through the mouth of someone intent of saving "saplings."
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