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Should men be allowed to vote?

alicemiller1915

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).

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hellkell
hellkell
11 years ago

Whoo, rock those Dockers, baby! EDGY.

Aw, look at him trying to concern troll. Fuck off, child.

cloudiah
11 years ago

I’m sitting around waiting for a repairperson, who is late of course, and there aren’t even any amusing trolls to bat around. 🙁

Also, I didn’t think anyone other than my mother said “slacks.”

hellkell
hellkell
11 years ago

Like I should WANT to be liked by someone like him? He really does think all women have to be sunshine and kittens to him, doesn’t he?

CassandraSays
CassandraSays
11 years ago

If my dad called them slacks I’d be embarrassed for him. He’s 63.

cloudiah
11 years ago

I don’t think I really know what colors look good on me, and I am pretty boring fashion-wise. Also, I am an adult, but I still get my hair cut at Supercuts. It’s kind of embarrassing…

cloudiah
11 years ago

My mother’s 82 so I cut her some (wait for it) slack.

hellkell
hellkell
11 years ago

cloudiah: no shame in the Supercuts game. I’d get my hair cut there if my hair wasn’t so difficult.

CassandraSays
CassandraSays
11 years ago

That is officially funnier than anything Diogenes has ever said.

hellkell
hellkell
11 years ago

LOL at cloudiah’s slack.

cloudiah
11 years ago

I know puns are the lowest form of humor, but it’s all I got.

Supercuts: Whenever I go, the only other clients are young kids, teenage boys, and adult men with really simple hair cuts. Seriously, I have never seen another adult woman in there as a client. And when they ask me how I want it cut, I just say “Can you make it shorter please?”

CassandraSays
CassandraSays
11 years ago

If you have curly hair saying that can result in a haircut about 5 inches shorter than you intended, which is why I pay the fancy salon prices.

cloudiah
11 years ago

My last apartment was next door to a restaurant called El Texate, whose owners are from Oaxaca. Good moles. When people visited and wanted to eat Mexican food, I would always recommend it. And the best part for me? It was right within (wait for it) Oaxacan* distance.

Thank you, I’ll be here all week.

*This joke doesn’t work at all if you don’t know how to pronounce Oaxacan.

LBT
LBT
11 years ago

I call them slacks. I didn’t know that was an old-fashioned word, my family always used it. Regional thing? (In my mind, pants can be divided into roughly two categories, jeans and slacks. They’re the only ones I wear, really, and if I could, I’d live entirely in denim.)

I actually went through a period of a year or two cutting my own hair, because I lived in a town where barbers gave me crap wanting a buzz when I had the audacity to have boobs at the same time. After the second time I was told that they didn’t know how to buzz a girl’s hair, but for $30, $40 they’d be willing to try, I said fuck it and just did it myself. It was uncomfortable and awkward and ugly, but easier than dealing with the service.

CassandraSays
CassandraSays
11 years ago

How is buzzing someone’s hair different depending on their plumbing? I mean, unless it’s the hair down below that you’re buzzing I’m just not seeing it.

Diogenes The Cynic
Diogenes The Cynic
11 years ago

kell

Its such a thin veneer. You acting out the way you do isn’t because of me. Its you projecting you.

Something happened that made you an angry little person.

“Like I should WANT to be liked by someone like him? He really does think all women have to be sunshine and kittens to him, doesn’t he?”

What made you even think in those terms?

pecunium
11 years ago

Na¨f:

Argenti, long black skirts are part of the uniform. They were probably staring at you, but I doubt it was with scorn.

Its just a thing we do.

Depends. If they thought she was jewish, and insufficiently frum, it was with scorn.

cloudiah
11 years ago

Maybe slacks is a regional thing, LBT. Good point.

Look how bitter and angry I am.

pecunium
11 years ago

Cloudiah: I love Oaxacan for my food. 🙂

hellkell
hellkell
11 years ago

Uh-huh, sure Diogenes. You are so right about me and my life from my comments to you. It couldn’t be because I don’t like you, and think you’re a complete and utter jackass. Nope, the problem is clearly me.

I know you don’t understand sarcasm, so just so you know, the above was sarcasm.

ANYWAY…

LBT: that barber was full of fail. A head of hair is a head of hair.

pecunium
11 years ago

I think of slacks, trousers, jeans, and pants. Pants is sort of generic,and includes my usual cargo-pocketed lightweight duck trousers.

I’d say that of them, only jeans is specific to a type.

Diogenes The Cynic
Diogenes The Cynic
11 years ago

hellkell

Why do I bother you?

I mean, I make a pretty crappy bad guy. I’m too level-headed to get others into a rage, and not all that provocative.

hellkell
hellkell
11 years ago

There, there. Someday you’ll be interesting. Today is not that day.

pecunium
11 years ago

Why do I bother you?

Because you are clueless, pointless, mindless, and lacking in any sense of self-respect.

Other than that, there’s not a thing wrong with you, apart from your lack of respect for others, dismissal of women, just because, an undeserved arrogance and the tendency to babble on subjects you know less about than you think, as if you were the expert of the world on the subject.

So yeah, there’s no reason anyone here would think you a pissant.

cloudiah
11 years ago

There’s definitely better Oaxacan in LA, but El Texate is respectable.

Diogenes The Cynic
Diogenes The Cynic
11 years ago

Not so uninteresting that you would refrain from your vile bile.

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