Mallorey Cheslock Mrs. Plonski Advanced Composition B1 20 January 2023 “Teach Girls Bravery, Not Perfection” (Word Count: 600) In “Teach Girls Bravery, Not Perfection,” Reshma Saujani discusses the idea that girls are socialized to be perfect in everything they do. Whereas boys are brought up to be fine with making mistakes. The exceptions of girls that were raised into bravery are capable of great things. Saujani’s overall claim is that people need to teach girls to be brave. To show her audience what she means by bravery, she explains how she broke her socialization of perfection for the first time as an adult. She shares with the audience how others told her she was crazy for running for Congress. Saujani explains how newspapers were so quick to switch up as soon as results came out but she did not care. She was just happy she tried. Through sharing this anecdote, Saujani builds a sense of credibility with …show more content…
This includes the previously mentioned psychologist, Carol Dweck, as well as an HP report about women and men meeting application requirements. She also brings up her friend Lev Brie’s accounts as a professor on how girls and boys take in mistakes differently. For herself, Saujani not only shares her encounters with bravery but other girls in her life like the girls in her coding program. She claims that the majority of coding teachers share the experience of girls saying they do not know what to do with a blank screen. But as they hit the undo button, they can see she had something but made a mistake or reached a point of confusion, they deleted it all. Through sharing this, we, the audience, see how “feminine perfection” is universal. She illustrates to us how girls brought up to perfection can not stand to make a mistake. So much potential is wasted at the hands of a single