In a 2007 essay, Amy Benfer expounded on The Fountainhead's appeal to adolescent girls:
There’s no doubt that Rand intended these characters to be her stand-ins, dramatizing the glory of the capitalist individual against the villainy of the collectivist state. But as a young teenager, I saw the battle as illustrating a very different drama: the tyranny imposed on the smart, misunderstood girl by the rest of the know-nothings she is forced to contend with in high school.
Ironically, Rand would have recognized at least some of those know-nothings as sharing the values she held dear – I despised the Republican reverence for money, for example, while Rand and I shared a mutual disdain for religion. But the sense of being isolated, the sole genius among a herd of sheep, is a familiar feeling to many children and adolescents, especially gifted ones.
Or as the Redditor who posted the above photo put it, "At least one of these girls will grow up to be awesome."
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