Home Ec in the 1960s
<p>The term “grooming” has taken on a peculiar political burden in the last few years. Republicans and other evangelicals (are there others?) fling it at LGBTQ+ advocates and allies, not to mention Democrats, shrieking that “they” are all out to turn normal children into abnormal ones, usually in <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/anatomy-of-a-fake-news-scandal-125877/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">pizza parlors.</a></p>
<p>When I was a child, I was groomed, relentlessly, in the other direction. My school, my community, and boys yelling from fraternity windows, all wanted me to change from an abnormal girl to a normal one.</p>
<p>For most kids, this begins in infancy. I just don’t remember that. I remember having to wear dresses to school. No choice. Hated that, but it was “normal” in those years. I had to find things to like about school because it was physically uncomfortable.</p>
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