pop quiz

i've been thinking about the 90s lately and how much of them will come back in the 2010s, as trends tend to cycle through a 20 year period. i started by assessing my personal sense of 90s-ocity with this list from 90swoman. my answers are bolded.

by the way, i am so ready to emerge from a bush-induced economic crisis into the heyday of the clinton years.

You might be a 90s Woman if…

• Any of the following changed your life: Bikini Kill, Nirvana, 7 Year Bitch, Hole, Babes in Toyland, Sinead O’Connor, Lisa Carver, Tank Girl, Sister Spit, Liz Phair.
• You have had a crush on any of the following: Paul Rudd, James Spader, Brittany Murphy, Winona Ryder, Johnny Depp (21 Jump Street era).
• You’ve read Sassy.
• When you heard Billy Corgan and Jessica Simpson were dating you got upset.
• You’ve made a mix tape on an actual tape.
• You know lines from Clueless.
• You’ve marched for abortion rights, against the first Iraq War, or for Take Back the Night.
• You have ever been into Wicca, eco-feminism, or liberation theology.
• You have a speech ready whenever any of the following come up: Camille Paglia (RAVING PSYCHO!), WAM, Katie Roiphe, or the Michigan Womyn’s Festival.
• You think any of the following items of clothing are hot: thigh-highs, plaid shirts, work boots with dresses, cat-eye glasses, chunky heels, baby-doll dresses, overalls, plaid, flannel, bra straps showing, barrettes.
• You’ve dyed your hair a color not found in nature, ideally with Manic Panic.
• You are all over your birth control responsibilities.
• It would never occur to you that women wouldn’t work or that men wouldn’t clean the house.
• You have self-identified as bisexual (even if you’re gay or straight).
• You can do a feminist analysis of your favorite pop culture.
• You started—or at least read—a zine. Now it’s a blog or tumblr.
• You are both ironic and sentimental. But for real, not like that “like rain on a wedding day” Alannis Morissette irony song, which you have mocked but know all the words to.