Piercy expresses a theme that's hard to miss. Moreover, she does it satirically. Piercy shows the problem with the media's idea of what a woman should be. The young girl in the poem grew up with kitchen sets and baby dolls, following the ideal girl's childhood traditions. However, at the age puberty set in, although she was perfectly normal, her appearance was brought to the attention of others in her class. One must question why she was "apologetic" over her differences, since otherwise she was intelligent, dexterous, and behaviorally normal. this social isolation, this bullying, drove this girl to do the unthinkable. Piercy brings to light the struggles young women face all over the world to live up to the standards set before them on womanhood. She also warns of the dangers of keeping this standard, and shows the extremes that it can lead to.
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