Journal Entry 4: Girls v Boys

This story is told from a boy’s viewpoint. In your experience, which of Alfonos’s feelings do girls share? Do you think that girls and boys are fundamentally different in how they feel? Or are they similar? If they are different, how are they different? Why are they different? Do these differences and/or similarities change over time? Why or why not?

Of course GIRLS are better!!! ;)

  From my experience, girls do share a lot of Alfonso's feelings. We girls all want to be pretty and admired, and we also love being liked by people! We want to be popular and seen as the cool girl, not the nerdy and "loser-ish" girl, or the stupid or bad girl.
  I personally think girls are very different from boys. For one, girls are much more mature than guys, and we don't like humiliating ourselves. Girls think before they act, but most guys act then think then regret. Even though some boys do care a lot about their looks, but girls usually spend a LOT more time worrying about their look. Even though girls and boys do have their differences, but they also have a lot of similarities. We all enjoy being popular, and we all like to look and act cool.
  I think, when girls and boys were younger, they are almost the same. As they get older, they often become a lot more different, but when they get even older (like 80 something), they become the same again. I think it's because that when we were young, we never had anything to worry about, we just had to enjoy all the time we have left to still be homework-free and worries-free. As we grow older though, boys and girls face different pressures and they start to become more and more different. But when we're so old that we're just like waiting to die, we don't really care anymore and since we mostly face the same problems (like health), we just become very similar again.