Um... this article is insanely depressing, IMO. This is basically the stereotype I've been fighting for years... the girls I know who fit this little pattern are married or engaged. I'm the one who doesn't fit in - in homeschool circles because I was too into science, fantasy, that sort of thing.
Well, I think that makes you sane, even if depressed. ;~D Sorry doll.
It's funny because NONE of the homeschool kids I know fit this profile. My daughter is growing into something along the lines of a "South Park Republican" and my son is turning into the Great White Hunter.
Last month my daughter (12) entered public school for the first time in 6 years. She's one grade level ahead of her age group, the smallest one in her class and fits in with the other kids socially just fine. She growls at the boys for swearing in front of the little kids, sits giggling with friends at lunch and grumbles over homework. All-in-all, she's a normal, good kid.
Next year she'll be back home to start highschool (she doesn't want to "piddle around" with it) and she'll have friends that she'll meet at the mall or the pool. Homeschool kids are not "freaks". Most of them are normal kids who have access to a better-than-average education and aren't subjected to the Lord of the Flies environment quite as much.
(I don't want to repeat what she had to say about this article! lol!)
Ah, well. My oldest daughter (19) is something of a "geek chick." She and her older brother (21) are attending public school together, now -- NC State University -- and taking a class in science fiction together. Despite my best efforts to saturate them in the literary classics, they share my guilty taste for science fiction. I think I ended up imparting to them my love for juvenile literature and adult theology. Speaking of fantasy -- my daughter met a guy at both SCA events, and at the campus calvinist club. They're engaged, now.