In Effect, Telling Girls Men Are Feral

Girls are socialized to be ‘good girls’ when it comes to sex and are taught that they need to be sexual gatekeepers. At the same time, the culture at large trains girls to believe that their value lies in being sexually desirable. Alcohol offers adolescent girls a way out of reconciling the irreconcilable.

Self-Victimizing Again?

Do you attribute control of your successes and failures to yourself or to some fated force outside of your purview? Whether it is your weight, your emotions, your spouse, your children, your paycheck–do you continually find yourself feeling resentful or upset by the events in your life? Self-determination is a remedy for feeling perpetually victimized.