Summary of Abigail Shrier's Irreversible Damage

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The image of teenage girls giggling at the mall is outdated. Today, adolescence contains far fewer in-person consolations and torments that once filled the everyday life of teenage girls.
#2 The iPhone was released in 2007. By 2018, 95 percent of teens had access to a smartphone, and 45 percent reported being online almost constantly. Tumblr, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube all host a wide array of visual tutorials and pictorial inspiration to self-harm.
#3 The effects of social media on teenage girls are clear: it makes them anxious and sad, and they are far less likely to take risks than previous generations.
#4 The internet never gives these adolescents a day of reprieve. They are anxious and depressed, and they feel like they are missing out on the fun that should be theirs. They have never been sexually active, and they have never had a kiss with a boy or girl.

Sujets

• Sexualité
• sexualité
• Sexualité
• Conservatism
• Liberalism
• Political Science
• Political Ideologies

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 04 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669383116
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Abigail Shrier's Irreversible Damage
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The image of teenage girls giggling at the mall is outdated. Today, adolescence contains far fewer in-person consolations and torments that once filled the everyday life of teenage girls.

#2

The iPhone was released in 2007. By 2018, 95 percent of teens had access to a smartphone, and 45 percent reported being online almost constantly. Tumblr, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube all host a wide array of visual tutorials and pictorial inspiration to self-harm.

#3

The effects of social media on teenage girls are clear: it makes them anxious and sad, and they are far less likely to take risks than previous generations.

#4

The internet never gives these adolescents a day of reprieve. They are anxious and depressed, and they feel like they are missing out on the fun that should be theirs. They have never been sexually active, and they have never had a kiss with a boy or girl.

#5

By Julie’s middle school years, she was distinguishing herself en pointe, nabbing top roles in her dance company and dancing all the time. She had no history of gender dysphoria, but she was beginning to show signs of being transgender.

#6

Julie’s parents tried to help their daughter, but the school and therapists they sent her to only made things worse. By junior year, Julie had become disenchanted with ballet and excited about a different dream: becoming a boy. She cut off her hair and demanded that her mothers use her new name and pronouns.

#7

Julie’s mother’s felt that her daughter was slipping away, and not in a good way. They asked her to take a year off, but she refused. She began taking testosterone, and soon after cut off contact with her mothers.

#8

Until recently, the statistics would have predicted that very few people would have been transgender. But that doesn’t mean that girls were a monolith, or that we all expressed girlishness in the same way.

#9

Sally was a dream child, happy, obedient, and well-liked by her peers. She was also extremely athletic. She went through a period where she wanted to be a boy, but that passed quickly. She was very athletic throughout her youth, and she broke many records in swimming during her freshman year of high school.

#10

By her senior year, Sally had been accepted to her top-choice Ivy League school. She came out as a lesbian at college, and her parents were relieved. But her parents were also worried about her, and sent her to a campus mental health counselor who suggested that she was transgender.

#11

The final straw was when Dave told Sally that she should tone down her appearance when going for jobs, as if being transgender was a problem.

#12

Today’s adolescents are an impatient crew, and they may be forgiven for adopting the contemporary creed: There must be a pill for that.

#13

Gayatri, however, was a different story. She was always a feminine girl, and she loved to dress up. But as she got older, and started puberty, her body didn’t match her expectations.

#14

In her freshman year of high school, one of her teachers nominated her for a leadership retreat. The weekend-long retreat focused on sexuality and gender, and Gayatri introduced herself as a transgender boy. She had lots of friends.

#15

Today’s teenagers have access to a wide variety of sexual information and advice from strangers online. They lack in-person interactions, which makes them anxious, and they take their questions elsewhere.

#16

The transgendered are not having sex, and many of them have never had any. They have a sex-studded vocabulary and avant-garde gender theory, and they go to special gender clinics eager for testosterone.