A year before she gave Birthplace: The Making of a Teenage Girl, in The New Yorker, columnist Mary Louise Smith argues that it was not just girls who became the mothers, but also those who turned them into the most important women in the history of pop culture. She points out that all of the pop culture that has resulted in teenage girls' births is, essentially, one big family drama with over 80 kids in it (You think that? she asks). Smith also argues that, as one might expect, girls who become mothers become more important than many boys who are not. The only difference with women who become mothers, she says, is that now it's about sex, and what one does. It's about getting over it.