One of the weirder social phenomena I experienced where the intense anti-fedora sentiments of the 2010s that treated the hat as emblematic of Men's Rights activism and bad/sexist men in general.

It's still puzzling to me for a number of reasons:

1. It's just a hat.

2. It is an androgynous hat, not a specifically masculine one. (Kinda moved over time from being a tomboyish woman's hat to a foppish men's hat until it got associated with movie tough guys.)

3. Judging by the images, the headgear they where actually having an issue with was trilbies.

4. Knowing the difference between a fedora and a trilby was seen as suspicious in and of itself.

I'm probably a bit salty cus fedoras was the first fashion item I was excited by, probably in retrospect because it was the one androgynous item I was allowed to wear, and also cus the sun is bad.

I've since outgrown my fedora, literally if not figuratively, my head just got too big. I still have my seagrass fedora though and I use it occasionally as a summer hat.

@Owlor I hated that entire bit of 2010’s internet culture to be honest. it felt like it was conflating a lot of harmless things (being autistic, liking stylish hats) with terrible things (being a sexist, just kinda being a bad person in general) in a way that I think was common in cringe culture at the time

@kasdeya @Owlor That's one I internalized. I have a nice hat that I never wear because I feel like I look like a tool in it. Probably don't, but I can't get over it :(

@Shivaekul @Owlor awww! I hope that you’ll find the confidence to wear that hat someday. I bet you look great in it