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Apparently rompers are oppressive now, and I just want to know why we can’t let girls enjoy things
Who hurt you?
Look, I like to stay informed as much as the next gal, but when I saw the headline “Rompers Are Oppressive, Here’s Why” in my timeline, I just couldn’t convince myself that opening and reading the article was going to enlighten me in any way I haven’t been enlightened before.
I’ll be the first to admit, I was kind of wrong. It did offer an impressively condensed picture of the turmoil surrounding rompers — or “babygrows” as I was told they’re referred to outside of the US — and I came out of it knowing more about the heavily debated history of them than just about any other one-piece clothing item. But I’m still not convinced of their oppressively anti-PC ways.
The argument that rompers turn women into adult-babies infantilizing women in a way that should be offensive to us doesn’t stand up to the test, because 1) Aren’t we really all just adult babies? and 2) I’ve never met a person who likes pants, which is really the only scientific evidence I need.
Our entire lives we’ve been taught to question the things that are told to us, and to refuse to take what we’re told at face value; this is how history repeats itself. Wake up America. But questioning the sanctity of rompers in the face of an, undeniably, patriarchal society just doesn’t seem like a thesis my professors would have been down with if I pitched it to them.
Us gals should be standing together and fighting for the right to wear shirt-pants in public. If we can’t agree on this, we’re letting the guys think they’ve won. Wear whatever you want, do whatever you want, and allow girls to unashamedly like things. Except for pants — pants are oppressive.