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).
Oh yes, I remember the great scandal about Chicago! 😀
I’m mildly surprised they still let him post on r/mensrights. He’s been booted off some pretty extreme sites, iirc.
Last night I read the thread from 2011 where he said outright he thinks men should literally own women. What a pathetic creepy piece of work he is. Perhaps he thinks that because his fantasy of women being beaten on the street doesn’t happen all the time, women are never attacked at all, cos what manly man would do it at home, let alone deliberately hurt her so that the bruises are hidden by her clothing?
Mind you the irony of seeing Mr Al have a go at Owly for derailing and making a thread all about him was priceless.
Love love love the pockets one! And you could pretty much insert any group for “women” there, for their own particular brand of oppression… For example, teh gays certainly don’t need pockets (or at least they don’t need to call them “pockets” and flaunt them in our faces! The bible never said gay people should have pockets!)
Indeed; the only objection he could think of to women being owned is that if the state or a group of dudes owned the women, that would be communism.
And he fancied that the US is a communist entity where women owned men. Very “lol wut” if it came from anyone but Owly, from whom it was SOP.
It’s all the fault of those feminist
SpaniardsRussians.Cloudiah love the poem. I find voxday more disturbing than this guy because he has a horde of sicophants (call themselves the Ilk) so when ever vox says something outrageously rascist or sexist they all nod along.
Anyway it’s a beautiful day, I have a nice glass of Pinot Gris in my nonbat cave and I’m trying to avoid taking my youngest daughter to get piercing number 2.
So Internet hugs to all x
Some legislator in, I think, Montana has suggested that corporations should have the vote.
When you think about it the only people in the US who have not had their civil rights disputed, discussed, and generally reasoned away, by white male property owners, are white male property owners. Perhaps it is time the rest of us questioned their competence, and spent a few hundred years debating whether or not they deserve full citizenship.
She’s wonderful, I’m going to have to bookmark her stuff.
Since we recently established that “I didn’t read it, but…” is considered a valid argument in the MRM, I fully expect most of them to read the title of the post, skip the content, and start railing against the misandry of even asking the question. I’ll bring popcorn, if anyone wants some (lightly salted, with just a touch of sesame oil).
I’m immensely comforted. Clearly Owly has never seen me in public. *sigh of relief*
BWAHAHAHAHA!
Me neither. 🙂
I have curly hair. “Not a hair out of place” just isn’t a thing that’s possible with curls. If that makes me invisible to people like Slavey then yay, bonus.
Did he just confess that he never leaves the basement?
I have the Hair of Foof and I’m several decades away from being fifteen, so I don’t imagine Slavey would see me, either. Turning invisible as one ages definitely has its benefits.
But of course he leaves the basement! We know he’s a high-flyin’ milk-machine tech who
hasn’t the people skills, let alone management skills, to be promotedwas cruelly overlooked in favour of agraduate who’d actually learned managementpampered princess!What’s this about women and pockets?
I’ve seen some very lovely embroidered, historical pockets for women. They were worn on a ribbon around the waist, over the dress but beneath the apron. They were also rather large, considering that sewing supplies (especially pIns or needles), in addition to whatever else women needed on a reugular basis were carted around too.
Which is essentially where the idea of all pockets came from, isn’t it – bags/purses around the waist developing into bags sewn into the seam of clothes when the style of clothing permitted.
The Academy of Armoury from 1688 has a section on clothes that describes pockets as “little bags let into the side of the Breeches to put or carry any small thing in.”
The “no pockets for women” is satire, though these days it’s more like dumbasses doing the “why do women carry so much/have handbags?” duh-questions.
We call my dad’s coat his “man purse” sometimes because of the sheer volume of stuff he keeps in the pockets. It’s literally a pound or two heavier than a normal jacket just from wallets and phones and things. Purses and pockets are very handy.
Favorite one by far.
LOL I can just picture that coat! At least he’d have all the stuff distributed around his body instead of being a dead weight in a backpack, f’rinstance.
mxe – that one’s brilliant. And it really shows what a fantasy land MRAs are living in, doesn’t it, when they talk as if women only started working outside the home around 1970 or something.
wow, Alice Duer Miller is like… the manboobz of 1915. awesome link.
I remember reading this in my history class in grade 11. 😀
@Cassandrasays,
THIS. Even when it’s “tame”, there’s still still a halo of frizz.
LOL this is fabulous
It just gets better and better as I scroll down.
She’s a genius!
Alex, nice to see you back on site. 🙂
Even when there’s no frizz curls are never what you’d call tidy. The tumbling chaos is part of the charm!
Precisely!
I wonder if Owly freaks out at seeing men with long curly hair. Well, long hair at all, but long, curly, dark locks …
::swoons::