What Does A Girl Want?

What A Girl Wants....besides being a movie title, it is a question that has any answers to it. I think what a girl wants most is for her life to be happy and filled with as many adventures, and successes as possible, and also finding a partner who will care for her. But when watching the movie these girls just want to be liked and have a life without worrying about how they have to look to be treated well. These girls were from ages nine to sixteen an hearing all the different answers they gave to answers about school and the media was very interesting to hear. The nine and ten year olds seemed to be somewhat more influenced by the media and wanting whatever society shows women should be like while the older girls realized that no matter what society shows how womb should  be that they won't be like that but that's alright. Just because a girl isn't tall an skinny doesn't mean she won't have a good life. Something one of the girls said on the movie, I thought was surprising because it was so true. Media influences our world a lot but the girl beings up that the only reason media continues to show stuff like this is because we like it. It was amazing how different the answers were of the younger girls versus the older girls. One of the questions brought up was about sex and it was a ten year old who answered the question. I remember her saying that she didn't think she would have to sort about sex until she was twelve or thirteen. Upon hearing this I thought about when I was twelve years old and I wasn't even close to thinking about sex yet. Possibly my friends and I were talking about what boys we thought were cute and liked but nothing past that. So the fact that sex is starting to be an issue at a younger age is crazy. Another one of the girls had mentioned how at a certain age since it was the cool thing to do, girls like her would have sex just so they wouldn't be left out and be considered cool. I know being cool is a big issue but something that was once thought of something so special is now a normal thing to do. It is very interesting to see how time has changed the perspectives of differed issues and it will be interesting to see where it takes us in the future. And then what does this mean for parents? How can a parent teach about sex if the perspective of it has changed so much since they were children? It will be something that I am curious about and hope to observe in the future.