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.