Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls

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Frankly, this book is offensive. According to this deranged woman, females are poor little victims. What does being a victim imply? That a person is helpless, not in control, not responsible for anything, someone to be pitied and rescued and shepherded to safety. I'm not a feminist by any stretch of the imagination, but even I resent that portrayal of women. And what exactly was this woman smoking when she wrote this? Apparently, she has missed two salient facts: people (even males) change as they grow up and adolescence is a time of intense change. It's utterly ridiculous to claim that someone is "dying" inside because she is changing. And while SOME teenage girls undoubtedly experience problems, not all of them do. I think this book would have been a lot better if the author would have went out into the world and spoken to some adolescents that weren't in for therapy, to some adult women (they were once teenagers and just look at them! They didn't self-destruct!), and, if she was really bold, to some males. Then she wouldn't have gone about wasting everyone's time with her silliness, if labeling normal change in humans isn't something graver than silliness.

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