Of course, I have no way of proving my theory. If I were to follow Ms. Simmons’s lead in Odd Girl Out, though, all I’d need to do is go around and ask the kind of questions that would elicit the answers I’d like to hear in order to support my theories at a statistically insignificant number and highly biased sampling of schools. I’d wager it’d be just as easy to support my theories by asking boys questions about the depth of their relationships (or the lack thereof).
While Odd Girl Out is a very interesting book, it exhibits tunnel vision in how it explores the topic of female aggression. In order for her theories to carry more weight, Ms. Simmons needs to broaden the range of girls she speaks with as well as explore the possibility of other explanations aside from the one she seems emotionally invested in.
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1 - teonna
this book is a good book that they should read in high school because it is true that high school girls are this way and if they read this maybe they will get an idea of not being the way they are now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!