Turning My Mom Into me is the fun TikTok trend that questions the look of moms

Who says end of year celebrations, also says family reunion. The opportunity to receive more or less benevolent comments from your elders about the way you dress. Or maybe do it yourself for teenagers who have already grown so much. On TikTok, since December, more and more young people have enjoyed dressing their mother in their style: è the #TurningMyMonIntoMe trend. understand: turn my mother into me.

What is the TikTok trend that turns my mother into me?

As most TikTok trends or challenges want, all videos use roughly the same structure of staging and storytelling. It is usually the teenager or young adult who films her mother first appears in her usual clothes, then reappears dressed as a child.

Renewals of their daughters, mothers often look much younger

Whether we find these videos derisory, hilarious or adorable, it is also clear that mothers can suddenly look much younger when renewed by their offspring. Without appearing ridiculous (which would still be a subjective value judgement). Additional sign if necessary how many the injunction a dress according to your age “acting” his age is absurd.

Representing one’s age through clothing serves to signal a social position

Or maybe representing one’s age through clothing serves above all to signal a social position (that of mother in this casecaricatured in one of these TikToks by a woman who presents herself on video for the first time with a vacuum cleaner in her hand), so that the rest of society can classify you more easily (as potentially row).

Behind the #TurningMyMomIntoMe TikTok trend, the male gaze

When we hear a number of grown men try to justify having sex with minors (which is criminally reprehensible) by explaining that she ” she looked older than her age there’s reason to wonder who really benefits from the fact that so many women share the same view as what is a respectable dress or suitable for an adult, or a mother, as opposed to what a teenager would look like (which would be judged by society as unfair for an adult then accused of looking like a retarded teenagerand). In short, even when a girl enjoys dressing up her mother as her, the male gauze it’s never far.

Front page photo credit: TikTok screenshot