I think it's a perfectly valid observation if an article that purports to talk about the problems faced by girls ends up talking about problems shared by both sexes (especially if by doing so there's a hidden implication that boys don't have those problems). Parent's example wasn't cherry picked, the whole article is like that - you can substitute 'teen' for 'girl' in almost every sentence. I know that young girls have problems unique to their sex - why not talk more about them? My intellectual curiosity is not very gratified by this article.

I still find it informative to know they're worried about many more things like everyone else. Filtering this out and leaving just "boys" and such would paint a vacuous picture.

The possibility of gender topics turning into a gender war should not preclude any and all discussion of the topic.

It seems like a valid and substantive comment that adds to the discussion to me.

"Kids these days" articles should be against the site's guidelines.