Feminism | Posted by Julie Z on 12/16/2009

We’re Not Just Watching Gossip Girl

Jessica Watson

It really pisses me off when adults assume that girls my age are the most vapid, self-centered generation to ever have come along. Especially since that was probably assumed of their generation, too. It’s a vicious cycle.

Anyway, when I heard about Jessica Watson, a sixteen-year-old from Australia who is in the midst of becoming the youngest sailor to circumnavigate the globe, I wanted to point her out to all of those cranky old people and say, “SEE WE HAVE AMBITIONS. WE ARE DOING STUFF PEOPLE YOUR AGE COULD NEVER EVEN DREAM OF!”

Except that probably wouldn’t have worked if those curmudgeons are anything like T.J. Simers over at the L.A. Times. Faced with the news that another 16 year old, Abby Sunderland, wants to sail around the world solo, Sir…

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