I find it so disappointing that the male experience is viewed as the baseline for the human experience, and that stories told from the male perspective are interpreted to apply to the human experience as a whole, whereas stories told from the female perspective are always understood as being about "girlhood" or "womanhood". It feels to me as though we haven't graduated from our conception of woman as a fragment of man (Adam's rib). She is a half person. She is woman first, human second. Women have had to discover themselves through the stories of heroes who don't look like them since they first learned to read.