TIL about the frequent antics of Alice Roosevelt. I’m reading You Didn’t Hear This From Me, which is a delight on all fronts.
It’s a through line of the book, the way that women’s behavior and interaction with each other is scrutinized so distinctly from men. It’s obvious in a brief reading of Wikipedia that Alice was a far more scandalous topic than any man of similar behavior would be.
I think sometimes about how our societal standards begin with calling behavior odd or off-color, and eventually cause people to feel like total outcasts, which in turn drives even more aberrant behavior. I see its presence when I engage with this story