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1938: The Value of Boy Friends
Those things may seem essential, but having boy friends should mean more than that. It is good for a girl to know boys and to learn to get along with them, because later she will need to know how to get along with men, whether her career is marriage or a vocation. Her life will be happier, no doubt, and her career more successful, if she understands something about the opposite sex, if she can grasp their viewpoint and learn how their minds work, and how they think and feel about things. Girls can learn from boys an honesty and straightforwardness that is more characteristic of them than of girls. And a girl may find in her friendship with intelligent boys a stimulating development of her own mind and ideas. Like all good things, however, boy-and-girl friendship can be overdone. The girl who devotes all her time and thought to boys gets a narrow, warped slant on life. If she is too busy having dates with boys to have any time left for girls, and for her family and other friends, she is paving the way for unhappiness for herself. For while she may be well supplied with boy friends, she soon comes to feel that girls don't like her. She imagines that, out of envy of her popularity with boys, girls go out of their way to hurt her. The result is that she is standoffish and suspicious with girls, and presently it is really true that they don't like her. Knowing boys and getting along with boys is part of your education for life. But not all. Keep your girl friends, too, and make your life and personality well balanced. Source:
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think this one speaks for itself.
Why is it important for a girl to know boys and have the friendship of boys? In order to get taken to parties, and have plenty of dates and dance partners?
