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).
I got some really funny looks from some traditional Orthodox Jews one day (ladies in long sleeve white shirts and long black skirts). I asked my best friend, a Jewish dude, if he had a damned clue why I had a bunch of Orthodox women staring at me — apparently I look Jewish and in my long black skirt, with short sleeves, was probably getting a look of scorn.
Seeing how everyone seems to think I’m Jewish, he’s probably right. (Italian, some East European, a mix of UK options, Native American, but no Jewish that I know of…got some mix of East European and Mediterranean features I guess?)
Oh yeah, same. Greeks think I’m Greek, and Turks think I’m Turkish. My grandfather gets mistaken for Pakistani-Indian by Pakistanis and Indians all the time, but he’s Italian. I’m sort of a melting pot of Europe, with a little Native American in there too.
I have no intention of dying my hair when it changes. lol My stepgrandmother has hip-length silver-grey hair. It’s gorgeous! 😀 I guess the only thing that would be weird would be the shade. I’ve been dark-haired all my life, so to suddenly have light hair might be strange.
Methinks I should have refreshed the page…lol
It was definitely very weird. Which is saying something at a concert that looks like this — http://twitter.com/FrenchFryTech/status/305215825881726977/photo/1
Left is the lovely Veronica, right is the lucky lady being corrupted by her that evening
If I were naturally dark I might let the grey grow out – there’s plenty there and it looks like a decent sort of grey, plus I think salt-and-pepper hair looks great. But as things are, I’d have to go through the whole bleaching process, and I’m in no hurry to do that.
Speaking of grey hair, there’s a guy I see on the tram sometimes who looks like an Indian George Clooney. Seriously good-looking with grey hair and a tidy moustache-beard (the whatsname, circle variety?).
The one thing I’m keeping in mind for when I eventually let my hair go silver is that the same colors might not suit me any more. Black should still work great, though.
I think if your beard and stache is grey then you have to let the rest of your hair be too, or it just looks silly.
Okaay, Ms Stripy Tights looks like Rocky Horror meets Cirque du Soleil in that combination …
It’s much like that just lightening a shade, or as the skin ages and the texture/colour changes. I can’t do the blue-black hair I had twenty years ago, it’s just way too harsh against my skin, and ditto to wearing all black. Luckily my taste in colours changed too, now I wear lots of sage/olive/mossy greens and variations of rose pink, with purples or dark browns.
I’m gonna be SO fashionable this season, the shops are filling up with every variation of olive/khaki you can imagine. 😛
Kitteh — yeah I’m not quite sure what she was going for there, at a guess she figured funky skirt + stripes = the theme. And totally missed that funky Victorian-esque or goth/punk/etc skirt + neutral, or ideally black & white stripes = the goal. (I can explain that if you want, but it’s kind of long and fandom filled)
I can’t do khaki, it washes me out. Charcoal grey is my best non-black neutral, or bright white.
Admittedly part of it is that my inner teenage goth refuses to wear anything that could be described as an earth tone.
I’ll take your word for it, Argenti! 😀
Khaki I’m not fond of, it’s a bit too muddy. Needless to say the clothes shops are being a trifle vague about their colouring; I’d never think khaki describes most of the greens they have on show.
What really makes me laugh is seeing this colour called “shaded spruce.” WTF?
LOL I felt exactly that way about earth tones when I was in my belated teen goth phase!
I was not aware that spruces were turquoise.
I love green, but it has to be a true green with no brown or yellow in it at all. Also teal – every time teal is in style I buy tons of it because it’s one of the best colors for me, especially the really bright, saturated version.
This is the shade of teal that I mean, more of less. A lot of the traditional Thai silk colors are right in my sweet spot in terms of shade/saturation level.
http://www.lulus.com/products/qupid-marquise-10-teal-thai-silk-knotty-bow-platform-pumps/52591.html?gclid=CJOB9_CzzrUCFQhxQgodez4ATQ
This version too.
http://img0.etsystatic.com/005/0/7016681/il_fullxfull.364150376_o333.jpg
Yeah, the turquoise spruce tree was a new one for me, too.
I like the slightly blue green of some conifers. I don’t wear it, but Mr K has a couple of jumpers in that shade and they suit him very well. About the only greens I don’t like at all are the fluoro ones, but I don’t like any fluoro colours. I can’t wear plain pale greens, they wash me out, but I don’t mind them mixed with other colours. Most of my green stuff does have a hint of brown in it.
I’m tossing up whether to get those sneakers. I’ve a pair in a pale dun sort of colour and they are the most comfortable things ever, plus they accommodate the orthotics. The turquoise ones are terribly bright but have a sort of “this doesn’t go with anything” charm.
Oh lor’, Mum’s just dropped the lasagne on the floor …
That second one is very close to the back of the waistcoat I made for Mr K on Valentine’s. 🙂
I think shoes and bags are a great way to do brights that you might not otherwise be quite comfortable with.
Recently I’ve tamed my inner teenager to the point where I can admit that chocolate brown leather is a. very practical and b. actually quite flattering on me. Took a while, though, and it’s still limited to leather jackets/coats only.
I had a hatefest for brown for years (“These boots would be so gorgeous if they were only in black! Why is everything brown?”) then switched over and started wearing lots of it, particularly when I was into wearing a mixture of men’s and women’s clothes for a few years. It works better for me than black, now, at least for tops.
There’s one general rule, though: whatever the colour you want, it’s probably going to be the one that’s really hard to get. 😛
I’m half-Indian and half-white, so I have a mixed appearance as well. I do have white skin, but I have a Persian/Indian/Afghani-ish appearance. And my thick black hair makes me look rather Middle Eastern.
Ooops, I’m a bit late. >_>
No such thing as too late here. Apart from trolls trying to necro threads, of course. 🙂
I have a sister who’s naturally blonde, but also has naturally really dark-brown eyes, black lashes and tans very easily (yeah, it’s a really unusual combination of colours, I know). When she had her natural hair colour EVERYONE thought she bleached it, and lots of people also thought she was from somewhere in Southern Europe. Nowadays she dyes her hair dark, and everyone thinks that’s her natural colour. People still think she’s from Southern Europe though.