Notes on Rory Gilmore's commencement speech

After all, where she leads, new grads might follow.

It’s graduation season, baby.

The girls are shopping for eyelet dresses and funky wedges that will look cool with their frumpy gowns. The boys are… well, I don’t know. Can someone tell me?

(It’s worth noting here that I graduated from high school in 2008 and college in 2012, both years when—unfortunately—gender was treated less as a spectrum and more as…