Mocking misogyny: It’s not just for the present day. Here, from 1915, a pointed parody of misogynistic anti-Suffrage arguments by writer/poet Alice Duer Miller. (Note to extremely literal-minded MRAs: She was not actually advocating that men have the vote taken away from them. Nor are we.)
You can find many more examples of Miller’s sharp wit in her 1915 collection Are Women People? The whole thing is available online and in various ebook formats on Project Gutenberg.
Graphic via Roqayah Chamseddine (@iRevolt on Twitter).
It was posted a good while back. 🙂
RE: pillowinhell
Yeah, that is a level of poor that I can only imagine. I mean, really, I’ve got it pretty good. My income might be extremely low, but I have a roof over my head, food, and a great number of people who care about me, so even if I did lose everything, I could be taken care of. (Though I would STILL take to the street before returning to my family.)
RE: Shiraz
Yeah, I can understand. We’re dissociative. Which means that when shit really hits the fan, we just… turn into a golem. We once spent a few days in a state where we pretty much just sat in a corner and waited to be sane again. If someone put food in front of us, we ate it. If someone asked us a simple question, or told us to do something simple, we’d answer and obey. Other than that? Sit in corner and wait.
So people who know us realize that when we stop reacting to our environment, we’re in deep shit. But we got by for years without anyone knowing otherwise, and actually achieved really high performance while being spaced out the entire time.
I’m lucky enough to never have been poor, though there were a few years after my father died that my mother worried about how to keep things together. (She hid that from us pretty well though.) But my mother grew up during the Depression in South Dakota, and her father was unemployed for a big chunk of that time. Her mother supported them by cooking for other people, and they raised chickens and grew some of their own food. They even took in the kids from another family when their father killed their mother and himself, leaving them orphans. Anytime they became aware that another family was having an especially hard time, their mother would cook meals for them too — even though that reduced the amount of food that she could sell. That experience is why my mother is (a) extremely frugal, and (b) even though she is a registered Republican she strongly supports welfare and other forms of public assistance for people who need it.
LBT, *saluting gesture*
I can totally relate here. I’ve been shamed so many times for crying that now I’m afraid of crying in front of people – the shaming is always hard for me to deal with. And that fear has even lead to an inability to cry in general.
I wish I had the ability to spontaneously cry, not only for the reason you mentioned, but also these days I’m in need of some kind of catharsis that I can only do through crying. The most I can do is shed a few tears. It sucks.
Sorry for the derail, but I just heard that a friend/D&D buddy died, unexpectedly, this morning. I should probably apply cookies (and avoid the wine rack). Anyone got a quick, chocolaty recipe?
Page five needs a chocolate fix /LivejournalMeme
I’m sorry to hear that emilygoddess. Hugs if you want them.
I’m crap at baking, so I don’t have a recipe.
@emilygoddess
I’m sorry. Hugs if you want them. I’m also sorry I don’t have any quick chocolatey recipes. (I have some regular-length, have to look them up ones and “open jar of chocolate frosting, dip cookie”-style ones.)
Internet hugs from another non-cook. 🙁
I’m so sorry emilygoddess. Sending hugs and chocolate cookies your way, just grab whichever ones you want.
Emily goddess, would brownies do? I have a simple recipe that people seem to like…
If you are in a thundering hurry you might try that chocolate cake in a cup in the microwave thingumy. It turns out more like a brownie than a cake but for emergencies it cannot be beat for speed.
Brownies:
4 squares unsweetened chocolate
2 cups sugar
3/4 cups butter
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup flour
So, get a heavy sauce pan out. Over medium to medium high heat melt the chocolate squares and butter together. Be careful to not scorch the chocolate by stirring frequently. Add the sugar and mix well. Remove from heat and add the eggs and vanilla. Mix well. Add the flour and mix.
Place into a buttered 9×9 pan. Place in 350 degree oven for thirty five minutes and test with toothpick to check if done.
*and now I want brownies, but don’t have chocolate*
I’m sorry for your loss.
Hugs, emilygoddess. The easiest chocolate thing I can think of is brownies and the perfect recipe will depend on what you have on hand.
Dammit.
I found a box of brownie mix and a packet of instant coffee* and made my famous-at-my-church mocha brownies (replace the water in the recipe with coffee and a dash of vanilla extract). Many blessings on my mother-in-law for keeping brownie mix in the house.
I have never gotten the mug of cake to work – it always comes out dry and crumbly. Is there a trick I’m missing?
*I usually use my cold brew concentrate or leftover morning coffee, but since I started working in a coffee shop I don’t make much coffee at home.
I’m sorry to hear that, emilygoddess. I would share my mom’s chocolate chip cookie recipe, but she wants to keep that a secret. Sorry.
@Pillowinhell, thanks, I’ll save that for the inevitable out-of-brownie-mix emergency.
@everyone thanks for the kind words
I like to do this with vanilla frosting and chocolate Teddy Grahams. It’s just like those rare occasions when I was allowed Dunkaroos as a kid.
Emily, I’m very sorry. How about some simple haystacks? Just melt some chocolate (in a double boiler if you’ve got one), allow it to cool slightly, and throw in whatever you like of the following:
Chow mein noodles
Shredded coconut
Mini marshmallows
Nuts (slivered almonds, peanuts, cashews, etc)
Dried fruits (raisins, dried cranberries, chopped dried apricots, etc)
Mix until everything is coated thoroughly and then drop by spoonfuls onto waxed paper to dry.
Sorry, emilygoddess. *Hug*
two recipes:
ganache: Good chocolate: dark.
Some sugar.
Heavy cream.
Put the the cream in a pan, get it warm. Add chocolate and sugar (per cup I like about 4 oz chocolate, and about 2 tblsp sugar.
use as hot cocoa base, or for other things which want chocolate.
Mocha petits pots du creme
coffee beans
half and half
vanilla bean
Chocolate
Sugar
milk
eggs
Put the beans in a moderate (350-400F) oven until they sweat.
When they are cool, float them in the half and half, with the vanilla bean. When it is about 190F, turn the heat off, let the proteins coagulate, removed the cake of beans.
find the vanilla bean (it ought to be in the bottom). Split it,and scrape the seeds. Add the chocolate, (to taste, ganache will work) and about 2:1 milk to half and half (a bit more, if you use ganache). per cup of mixture take one egg, per three cups add one egg yolk (at least two). Beat the eggs with the sugar (estimate). When the foam has settled pour it slowly into the cooled chocolate/milk, and bake in a water bath, as any other custard.
@emilygoddess
I also infrequently got dunkaroos. (My mom was big on health food. I grew up not to be.)
We just couldn’t afford brand-name food very often.
(Hey look, I re-railed the conversation!)