The Importance of Being Picky

I have been contacted now by quite a few kids who've grown up in extreme childhoods or various sorts. The vast majority of them have been girls who've had an unhappy time and I've been trying to work out actually why that is. Girls particularly young girls are just not as physically suited for this world a sailing boat you know it's a very sexist world. My relationship with my mother deteriorated when I started going into puberty about kind of 12 she refused to buy me a bra, wouldn't talk to me and would refer to me as a third person on the ship. She'd say to a member of crew so she could tell her daughter if they didn't exist but unfortunately we