In Smithsonian show, some girls are more equal than others
The National Museum of American History claims its girlhood exhibit is “complicated.” The show ought to be much more nuanced.
“Just being a girl makes a person political.” So reads a wall text in the National Museum of American History exhibit “Girlhood (It’s complicated).” This will be news presumably to the 80 to 85 percent of Americans who reportedly follow politics only casually or not at all, and to those who read the news but do not desire, for whatever reason, to be pol…