And bless her too.

I like the vibe of the meme, but it’s a tad ahistorical.

For example, I was recently reading about how the wide farthingale skirt of the 16th and 17th centuries really pissed men off. In modern feminist thought, we often hear women talk about “taking up more space” — well the farthingale was a literal way of doing that.

Of course, fashion trends like this are inextricable from the power of wealth and patriarchy, but the same could be said for the ways in which we struggle against those same power systems today. It surprised me to read of this because I think I used to think about historic fashion as an inconvenient thing that was forced onto women, but it’s far more complex.

In short, if you’re striving to be weird, you’re not doing a thing that was denied to generations of women before you, but in fact building upon a long tradition of fighting for self expression in a world that tries to suppress this. I wrote this comment because I actually find this framing to be even more empowering. It makes me want to be even weirder, to honour the people who came before me who fought to give me this kind of freedom I have.

The freedom we have nowadays comes with many constraints and caveats, but thinking of myself as being the latest in a long line of weird women who refuse to conform makes me think about the people who will come after me. Maybe 100 years from now, historians will be looking at memes like this, or written accounts of women scoffing at men who say shit like “you know, you would be pretty if you didn’t ruin yourself with [short hair / dyed hair / piercings / alternative fashion / black lipstick]”

Exactly this is why even queer folks can’t withstand me.

I will be so weird, I hope the next generation sees me as a record to surpass.

Am I progressive for thinking it’s hot ?

I can’t even say that. My mom beat me to it. I’m just weird because I was raised that way