Now that I look back, while I was growing up in the late '90s and early 2000s, I was desperately looking to media for any semblance of female representation to reflect my inner self. Even though that’s an era from just 20-ish years ago, it already feels like things were so much different back then. A lot of leading women were fantasies that showed me I was supposed to be happy, pretty, perfect, and ambitious, with life centered around the men in my world. When I was watching Freakier Friday, I realized that while that was all true, its predecessor, Freaky Friday was a rare exception.
The 2003 Disney movie was one of the first exposures I had to women in punk rock bands (before becoming a big fan of the genre), and I want to talk about why seeing the sequel actually made that element of it even better.
