Kids Run the Show

The first time that Mélanie met Clara, she was stunned by Clara’s sense of authority, and for her part, Clara was struck by Mélanie’s pink, glittery nails, which shimmered in the dark. “She looks like a child,” thought the first. “She looks like a doll,” pondered the second.

These two women, both of the same generation and exposed to the same forms of media throughout their lives, could not be more...