Cara Natterson

“Unfortunately, there’s a titillating interest in the budding sexuality of young girls. Like the Lolita syndrome sort of thing or whatever you want to call it. Unfortunately, it’s there. And in my opinion, that’s the big reason. Plus, the fact that girls can get pregnant and are more likely to be victimized than boys. I think a lot of [the focus on girl puberty] is the prurient interest in young girls’ sexuality.”
― Cara Natterson, Decoding Boys: New Science Behind the Subtle Art of Raising Sons

“We have rightly spent so much energy making up for lost time empowering girls over the last ten or twenty years that, though the resources shouldn’t be finite, we have kind of forgotten about boys a little,” Goldberg told me, explaining the show’s XY bent. “And I think that boys feel it, especially with the rise of the #MeToo movement. Even in progressive spaces now, boys feel a little uncomfortable speaking up, because they feel like they are supposed to have entitlement shame as well.”
― Cara Natterson, Decoding Boys: New Science Behind the Subtle Art of Raising Sons