One thing that’s been comforting is we’re starting to go through cultural trends I was aware of the last cycle in the 90s

Like, we totally had a “girlboss” thing, we associated it with shoulderpads, as a wave of women professionals adopted executive fashion, which was suits draped from broad masculine shoulders, before running into the issue with suit fashion that bold moves only work if tailored professionally in the first two or three years of style

I read about groups for men to be emotional and – the “men’s movement”! Remember that Beavis and Butthead episode where the drippy guidance counselor has them go into the woods with some weepy guys hitting bongos? It’s ok if you don’t – I had a Popular Culture professor who assigned us Iron John and talked like it was an important thing in 90s culture and all of us just looking at each other, knowing it wasn’t