A 2007 survey by the Pew Research Center found that 51 percent of eighteen- to twenty-five-year-olds said their most or second most important life goal was to become famous. Sixty-four percent said their number one goal was to become rich.
Sales, Nancy Jo. American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Life of Teenagers. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016, 26.
A 2016 thought by Brian E. Denton believes that 100% of them are by now bitterly disappointed.
"What's sexism?" asked a girl in Williamsburg, Virginia. "Is that when somebody likes sex?" When I asked her and her friends if they'd ever heard of feminism, another girl said, "Is that when a boy acts like a girl?"
Sales, Nancy Jo. American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Life of Teenagers. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016, 19.
