"...and?
"...and?" [White silhouetted combat boots over a camo background. Within the words: frequent schoolyard 'shade' back in the day, "Oh yeah, ...well, your Mom wears combat boots!"] Growing up in the 1970s, the schoolyard was a battlefield of incredibly specific, deeply strange insults. But there was one classic zinger lobbed with absolute confidence meant to totally demoralize you: “Oh yeah, ...well, your mom wears combat boots!” It was supposed to be the ultimate 'shade'—a dig implying your mother was unladylike, rough around the edges, or just didn’t fit the era's standard mold. You see, up until the 1970s, women’s roles in the military were heavily restricted. For decades, the system pigeonholed women almost exclusively into nursing or clerical roles. The idea of a woman donning fatigues and marching into a career of command was practically a foreign concept to the average schoolkid, let alone the rest of the world. So, when the kids th...
