Boys vs Girls
Boys vs. Girls Boys and girls are different, but they are also very much alike. ... Kindlon and Michael Thompson show some of the differences and similarities between boys and girls, and how they are affected by their upbringing. ... She tells how Polly, as a little girl, “did cartwheels and splits, played football, basketball, and baseball with the neighborhood boys, wrestled with my brothers, biked, climbed trees, and rode horses”(Pipher 265). ... A lot of little girls do not really care about anything except having a good time and being carefree and happy. ... So, along with many other girls her age, feeling the pressures from her age group, Polly became more ladylike. She tossed aside being the Tom Sawyer of the group and at first fought with both boys and girls. The boys wanted her to be one of them; the girls wanted her to be one of them; and she wanted to be her own person. ... Many girls feel the same way Polly did. They are born, and then grow to be little girls who think that boys have cooties, yet always seem to play with them because boys have all the fun. ... Hormones begin to change and the girls begin to look to the older girls as role models. They see these older girls dressing a certain way and acting a certain way. As a few of the younger girls begin dressing and acting like these older girls, they also begin pressuring the other younger girls to dress and act the same way.