"I know this isn’t true for every Gen X woman, but my cultural tastes were formed at a time when cultural tastes were male tastes — not always as a result of deliberate sexism, just the standard operating procedure of a time when men were both the decision-makers and the target audience for most things. Norms and narratives were set largely according to what men wanted to see and hear and experience; for kids, in particular, the most visible, aspirational girls were male-identified tomboys.
Again, this isn’t true across the board, obviously, but in the ’70s and early ’80s, a lot of girls experienced the transition from girlhood to womanhood as a loss of status they didn’t have the language to understand. I’m reminded that in 5th grade, after a single hour of sex education during which the boys went to the gym and the girls stayed in class, we were given a send-away coupon for a menstrual-product starter pack whose accompanying pamphlet bore a title that, in retrospect, sounds like a threat: 'Growing Up and Liking It.'”
"How I gave in to Tori Amos’ divine feminine
'In Times of Dragons' is a confrontation with America — and a reckoning with my own learned misogyny"
By Andi Zeisler
https://www.salon.com/2026/05/02/how-i-gave-in-to-tori-amos-divine-feminine/
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