I became an adult in the 1980s and I remember learning about the right-wing and seeing shit like that and thinking “Holy fuck - the fundies are dangerous, deluded freaks!” And the average America had similar thoughts but probably much more polite thoughts. And now ~40 years it melts my brain that the fundies are far more powerful and far more dangerous than any time in my life time.

The article is nonsense of course - but this is good.

In America, it wasn’t legal for women to wear pants in public until 1923, because it was considered wrong for a woman to wear men’s clothing (and vice versa). This idea was influenced by the Old Testament verse Deuteronomy 22:5: “The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.”

The belief that pants are masculine-coded has persisted into the 21st century. The first woman to wear pants for a portrait in the White House was Hillary Clinton in 2004. The first woman to wear pants in the Senate was in 1989. Still, women were not permitted to wear pants on the U.S. Senate floor until two female senators defiantly entered wearing pants in 1993 and forced the rule to be amended later that year.