This essay was kind of interesting to read from a male's point of view. I was not able to really relate personally to anything that she said, but I tried to compare what she was saying of younger girls to that of my nine year old sister.
The one part in particular that I thought was funny had to do with little girls basically abusing thier Barbies. Orenstein says, "I recall a headline-grabbing 2005 British study that revealed that girls enjoy torturing, decapitating, and microwaving their Barbies nearly as much as they like to dress them up for dates." I thought this was a funny line because it is exactly what my little sister does to her Barbies (except for the whole micowaving thing because my parents would flip out). The closet in mybasement could be considered my little sisters Barbie Graveyard. The closet floor consists of many messed up Barbies and accessories. I have no idea how many she actually has, but I would be willing to bet money that the majority of them are disformed in some way of another.
I thought that Orenstein's Essay was sort of a stretch in what she was trying to get out of it. I am not a woman so my views are obviously different, but I believe that playing with dolls and wanting to be a princess are just parts of a little girl growing up. I don;t believe that wanting to be a princess and dressing up like them will haunt a woman for the rest of her life. I guess that I really didn't understand what Orenstein was trying to get through to me in her essay because the only thing i can really think of when i look back at her essay is: What's the point?
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