Tales from the Frontlines: ‘Use Your Femininity’
Today in reader-submitted stories, from a 17-year-old Bay Area high school student, a self-identified feminist (yes!):
One of my many extracurriculars [in school] is Mock Trial, where I am the lead prosecutor. I remember one trial at the county courthouse, where one female judge — who is a judge in ”real life” — and all three female scorers told me and the five other women attorneys (there were six attorneys total — all female) that we look like “black widows” when we wear an all-black suit. I wear an all-black skirt suit because I like the color black — I wear every day mostly blues, grays and blacks.
They then collectively suggested that we wear a suit in a color other than brown, black or dark gray, instead colors like sea green, blue or purple, or even wear a broach. At the very least, some red lipstick, the judge said. This is all in order to, as she put it, “use our femininity”.
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