Later in life, when I learned that we’re trained to visually read symbols of femininity as symbols of weakness, I realized I’d been enormously unfair to Garnet. She absolutely was an empowering character, but I couldn’t see beyond my own personal rejection of traditional femininity. I never understood that a strong, empowered woman could still be traditionally feminine.
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