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).
@The Kitteh’s Unpaid Help,
Glad to be here. 🙂
@CassandraSays,
lol Yup…Some locks curl more tightly than others, so it looks like the length is uneven, till you pull it straight and see otherwise. Some ringlets are really thick, and others look like corkscrews. Curly hair just does what it wants to do, and every day’s a little different. Gotta love it. 🙂
I’ve been acquainted with a few men with curls…but it’s always cut short. 🙁
Nooooo!
My curls come from my Dad. I know why he cut it short when he got a serious job, but I’m kind of sad that I never got to see him with long hair in person, just in photos.
That’s a pity. 🙁 Mine’s the opposite: he’s had long hair most of his life, but I didn’t get my curls from him. In fact…I don’t know where I got my curls from. The colour came from my father, but the curls? I don’t know. lol Probably some recessive gene or something. Both my siblings have blonde, straight hair.
I don’t know where my curls are from. Both my parents have curly hair (my mum’s went wild when she was finally able to cut it short in her teens) but my hair texture is more like the old man’s.
I have no idea where my color came from, maybe my Granny, since my mum had light brown hair and my dad’s was that kind of jet black that’s almost blue-ish in some lights when he was young. My hair is very dark brown – to give a sense of color, one of my besties is Japanese and my hair is 2 to 3 shades lighter than hers if you look at the dye chart.
Of course now my hair is a. turning white young just like Dad’s did (though his started turning in his early 30s, as black hair often does), and it’s turning not grey but bright silvery white, just like his did.
This was precisely my thought as well.
(Of course, that was already a pretty safe bet, seeing as I don’t own a bikini, a micro-miniskirt, or a see-through blouse.)
I own a few see-through shirts but I only wear them to clubs or concerts, and I get the feeling that Owly would stick out a bit in that environment. Like, you know this album cover?
http://paulroland.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/jtull2.jpg
I’m picturing something like that, sitting in the corner of a bar or club, glaring furiously at all the pretty women.
Also, much as I love long hair on men, and curls, I have to say that metal dudes with curly hair should probably keep it short, because they take such bad care of it that it’s always a frizzy, tangled mess. Conditioner is your friend, guys!
I know what you mean about colour, though by your description, mine might be lighter. My hair looks black until either sunlight hits it, or when it’s compared to actual black. There’s an undertone of red in it, so I’ve taken to calling the colour “auburn black”. Silvery white sounds cool! I have no idea when mine’ll start turning, but I hope I get silver streaks. 😀
Hey, it’s Alex!
Aqualung: My sister loved Jethro Tull. She went through a phase (or multiple phases) where she adopted the musical taste of whoever she was dating, and this was one of them. Weird to see them here.
Anyhoo, I am jealous of people whose hair turns white. Blond hair tends to turn a weird, yellow-tinged gray. That hasn’t started with me yet, but I’m of an age when it probably will.
I have a bunch of see-through blouses that I wear over top of my corsets, but I don’t leave my apartment very often now that I’m laid off, and I sure as hell didn’t wear such things to work. Overly Christian boss would likely not have approved. Plus, I worked as a painter, and you sort of have to kiss certain clothes goodbye with that type of work.
Under strong light my hair actually has red tones in it too, but in dim light yeah, it looks black. This has provided hours of entertainment for friends. I suspect that plus the curls is part of why a lot of people have problems placing my ethnicity, too.
Your hair probably will go more white than grey, really dark hair tends to.
Isn’t the Aqualung cover perfect, though? It’s like Oliver Twist gone evil.
“I suspect that plus the curls is part of why a lot of people have problems placing my ethnicity, too.”
YUP. I’ve been assumed to be many ethnicities I’m not. Afghan, Mulatto, Turkish, Greek, and others. Some guesses are partly correct; most aren’t though.
If I touch the ends of hair to the base, the red really shows. The curls themselves have provided entertainment for…everyone. Especially small animals. lol On the other hand, I have had hours of entertainment with my best friend’s hair. It’s exactly the same colour as mine, but pin-straight (she’s Aboriginal). I love to play with it!
And, oh goodie! My hair will look like moonlight! 😀 I don’t know why that makes me so happy. lol
cloudiah – you might be pleasantly surprised with how your hair goes white. My mum was blonde, too, though her hair darkened a bit in adulthood, and she expected it to go a sort of blah off-white like her more red-headed sister’s did. It didn’t, it’s a really nice pure silvery-white.
My hair did the Not Taking The Colour thing a month ago. It faded on top about a week after being done. Wishy-washy bronze is not a good colour. My hairdresser ramped up the colour a bit yesterday to bring the top in line with the rest of it. I am not ready to stop colouring it yet, it’d be too damn aging. Plus I need my hair its current colour to use for photo pastiches of Mr K. Neither of is ready to be all grey, lol.
People often assume that I’m Persian, Turkish, or Hispanic, and it’s usually people who belong to those groups themselves doing the assuming. As far as I know I’m a Celt/Pict mix, though I do have a mystery grandfather who was a foundling. Everyone seems to think he was Eastern European or Magyar, though. I think the confusion is that nobody outside of the UK knows what the dark-haired Celts or the Picts look like (my dad’s family are Welsh if you go back a bit). I kind of like the ambiguity, honestly.
I’m totally letting my hair be its natural color when it’s all silver. There’s an older woman who I see around sometimes whose hair is that color and I love it, it looks so pretty on her.
Things not seen at the EA concert: see through skirts (not really that sort of style, corsets aplenty though) Things seen: a guy with jester neck and wrist bands and *drum roll* a jester clown thing attached to his crotch. I’m talking a 2′ long extension from his genitals, in the shape of a clown looking up at him.
In comparison the drunk girl dancing by herself and all the people who had to have frozen outside, they all looked perfectly normal! (Serious, it was like 20°F, how the fuck do you wear a mini-skirt and stockings in that? Go get longer skirts! Victorian corsets and mini-skirts don’t mix anyways!)
Yeah, Owly would’ve been glaring, and probably lecturing Veronica’s father about what a slut his daughter is and how dare she kiss random girls on stage. And what is she doing wearing a corset, underwear and little else?! (Her father was there, it was awesome)
Invisible to Owly? I don’t even exist! Androgyny isn’t a thing! …in practice biology hates… but yeah, my hair refuses to behave and thus I’m invisible to Owly. As for color, it’s from a box! (My natural color is the dullest brown you can imagine)
I once got asked if I was Hungarian Jewish, because of my facial structure, I think. Um, no, sorry, that’s Irish Celtic cheekbones you’re lookin’ at. Most odd.
I broke the page with Mr. Jester Crotch, awesome! >.<
Argenti – ha, sounds like your hair colour is about the same as mine. Er, at least as far as I remember. 😛
That jester sounds … bizarre. Though I’d probably fall around laughing seeing his looking-back-up-at-himself willy extension. It reminds me of the Roman bells with a gladiator fighting his own penis that’s turned into a bear (saw it in an exhibition on Pompeii many years ago).
Maybe not quite as weird, though.
Mr Jester Crotch is definitely a band name.