Glosswitch can hit more nails on more heads in one tweet than most of us can in entire essays.
She starts with the way girls and young women like to think they’re different from their mothers, they won’t be complicit the way Mummy is.
Of course, like millions of women before me, upon having children I discovered this thinking is bollocks. It’s not because you stop caring – motherhood doesn’t excise this yearning for individuality– but because the rest of the world doesn’t care about your aspirations.
Physically you’re screwed, socially you’re screwed, because it turns out gender isn’t a performance.
… Read the restYou become “that woman” because guess what? No other bugger’s stepping in to be her for you. What’s more,