Title: More teen boy and girl cliches!!!
Product review: I recently slammed another "coming of age book" for reverting to silly gendered cliches about teenage girls and boys: girls are self-mutilating suicidal anorexic doormats and boys come in two types: cool druggie pretty effeminate gay boys who are beat up, and mean insensitive football jocks who do the beating up. Never, ever, ever does a girl have confidence or engage in hedonism (drug use) rather than self-inflicted pain (cutting oneself, starving). Nor is a girl ever gay in teen lit--especially not a cool druggie pretty girl. In teen lit, a football player is never gay and an effeminate boy is never straight. Basically, I am so tired of the stereotypes. Sadly enough, this book is wedded to them. You have your cool gay boy, your sad boy narrator, and your Girl He Is In Love With (she has no identity of her own except her romantic trifles). In short, its tired and tiresome, and vastly overrated.
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