Southern Gender Bullshit
Coworker from Alabama was telling me about how when she turned 16 or something she had her Gender Oppression Ceremony where her family made her skip school for a day so she could put on an antebellum dress and have a thing to "introduce her to society" i.e., tell the town that she's now available a a potential wife.
I was torn between disgust and "omg I want that except I want my dress to be black".
Southern Gender Bullshit, Lewd
Also the idea of appropriating Southern culture and having a party where you get to wear The Fanciest Dress so you can be like "hello ~~boys~~ queer ladies I'm a woman now and these childbearing hips are officially open for business" is really fucking hot.
You know, when it's consensual and not because your parents made you do it.
Southern Gender Bullshit
I suppose the problem with capital T Tradition is that it gets shoved down the throats of anyone whether they want it or not.
Consent is kind of important yes.