Fragments of an Adolescent Soul

Chapter 17: 'Girlhood' and 'Boyhood'

"I'm just a girl in the world"

For months I have been listening to the famous term called, 'Girlhood', which refers to female youth, could call it a type of "brotherhood", the same would be 'Boyhood', but with young men's, but... What differentiates these "communities"?

First let's start with Girlhood, to my knowledge, has it become a kind of online community where young teenagers share their "experiences"? It is a type of online brotherhood dedicated to all the joys and sorrows of being a girl, and where they try to help each other.

Every day I usually watch those videos on TikTok, and it's absolutely beautiful, I love to see how none of them are really alone, and they can identify each other.

But it wasn't until a few weeks ago, where I kept thinking, is there a 'Boyhood'? Any community of boys my age? And that's when I started researching and I didn't really find much, so I entered one of my favorite places in the world, Pinterest, and decided to look for both terms, and when I looked for 'Girlhood', it was absolutely the exact definition of a teenage girl of my generation, and I could identify with some of the poems I saw, but

Only scenes from the movie of the same name (Little movie that I started the weekend and I haven't finished yet), and gay photographs.

But where is the boyhood?

As teenagers, don't we have a place?

Or simply, is the only online community of boys if they are boyfriends?

This can be a constant problem, and I understand why, but men, in general, we are all in one box, and if one sinks, they all sink, and in the end this connects with my previous chapter, and I stay in a position where I can't help but feel the desire to ask questions, but I can't find which one to ask, that's

What do boys do when no one sees them (other than sports)?

I have no idea!

It's very sad for me, because I would like to have something to reflect on, and I usually watch videos that say that they are only for girls and that if you are a boy it goes down [Referring to TikTok], and the truth is that I identify a lot, and some videos even help me, and they make a lot of difference, but as you could understand

It's a little frustrating as it seems that I, as a teenager,

I have nowhere to think about, and that was one of the reasons why I started this book.

And what really differentiates them?

Easy, one exists, and the other does not.

It feels as if each [of men] is an individual, and we don't have something that really makes us connect, or if we do, but the fear of looking "homosexual" is greater in many.