Bug Milk

In the final episode of the sitcom, “Webster,” Webster is transported hundreds of years into the future, where he gets some advice about growing up from Lieutenant Worf. For many years in the early days of the internet, this episode was widely believed to be a hoax or fever dream, however, it has completely surfaced since originally airing on March 10, 1989. 

Spock: fuck OFF lady

SWORDTEMBER DAY 16: SHELL

"As you hold the blade in your hand, you feel a rustling from the nearby grass. Crickets, snails, ants, a precession of creepy crawlies watches you in awe, keeping their distance. You look back to the blade. You could swear you saw the legs move out of the corner of your eye...”

Bug blade bug blade! I wonder what once inhabited that shell...

Yesterday's sword!

This is specifically a problem with YA fiction, not real people who feel ostracized by societal standards and the very real enforced gender norms.

So if I, in my critical posts on YA fiction, criticize the 'not like other girls' TROPE

This is what I am criticizing

Not real people who face bullying and oppression for not conforming or feeling like what society says girls are or should be

I think I've said this before, but it's worth saying again: characters are not real people and cannot make their own decisions or feel their own feelings. An author wrote them doing or feeling these things, and unfortunately in YA fiction especially this trope is often used to shame (especially but not exclusively) girls who have to work to meet societal standards and expectations.