International Women's Year, 1975

This is me, at age 10 or 11, being a jerk.

Creative, but a jerk.

I think the original "WHY N♀T!" buttons were distributed in my school. I don't know how much context we were given. I think that at that age I would have understood the concept of fairness, and feminism in the sense of treating everybody equally regardless of sex... but that would have come out as "why a year to treat women specially, but not men?" If I'd understood that the year was intended to promote a fairness that we didn't have yet, I might not have done these button adaptations. I don't know. It's the kind of satirical adaptation that led me to filking later. The urge to show off how clever I am has overridden good taste a few times too many in my life.

I'm somewhat better now.

I keep the buttons as a reminder of... something. Good to know where I've come from, I guess, and to recognize the distance.