I found this amazing pic of “Husband Libber” Harry Britton posted to the Blue Pill subreddit; it was taken in 1972 by the father of Blue Piller smileybird.
According to Cape Girardeau History and Photos, which has another pic of him,
New York Magazine wrote that he was a fixture who had been supporting himself wearing placards, carrying signs and selling his leaflets for 25 cents each for several years. “Harry makes only $2,000 a year [roughly $12,000 today –DF]. He’s not in this for the money, though; he says his only goal is reconciliation with his wife, from whom he is, not surprisingly, separated.”
Another account said he was the “president (and probably sole member) of the National Association of Dissatisfied Husbands subsisting on sales of publications extolling ‘Husband Lib.(‘It’s not men’s lib,it’s Husband Lib. The Bachelors are not oppressed yet’).”
Here’s that pic, and a couple of others; thanks to SquashedBananas in the Blue Pill for tracking all this down. (And thanks to the reader who emailed me about all this.)
Desertion, you say? Well, hoodathunk.
But she was a Slutty McSlut-Slut hoo-er! And PTAs are misaaaaandry!!!
Nor, for that matter, can I. So glad she got it!
Oh my god, I love how one part of his sign just says “BIBLE”. xD
And what’s with the oddly placed quotes on his signs? Husband’s “Lib”, and Be Kind to Your Husband “Day”. O.o
The first thing I thought of when I saw this image was this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhad_Khoiee-Abbasi
Although the guy above is certainly more articulate.
In all fairness, his campaign to save the male species did work. Although they were nearly extinct in 1972, today they make up almost half the population!
For non Chicagans:
The guy above has been protesting in the Loop pretty much every day since 2006 at least. His signs are even more incomprehensible than above, but he claims to be protesting his divorce/lack of visitation. He blames the FBI and just about every other political figure.
Goddamn it! Now my keyboard has coffee on it!
Did anybody notice the guy standing next to Harry Britton in that third picture, with his arm around Harry and a big goofy grin on his face, to get his picture taken as though Harry is one of those wandering cartoon characters in a theme park?
@Sarah – I did! That guy is great. And he’s drinking Tab. I haven’t had that stuff since I was wee. Good times.
Just wait until the incels find out they’re not oppressed because they aren’t married. It will be a big surprise!
Although since this guy is no longer married in the pics posted, is he still oppressed? More research needed.
I wonder if our former troll Undies was related to him. He said he didn’t want a wife because women are shallow and want a furnished house.
Just for my own preferences, I’d rather have gotten my photo taken with Emperor Norton. There was a man who knew how to make impossible demands on the street-corner with style.
hahahaha…I love all of the random quotation marks in these. *sigh*
Thanks, Lea. For SlutWalk Toronto this year I decided to dress up in my Batgirl costume that I got in the kid’s section at Toys R Us. Costumes are not consent!
Because sitting and sleeping on anything other than bare floors is misandry, no doubt.
Okay
True story
I left my abusive husband 23 years ago.
He went to the police, and got a lawyer. He wanted me charged with abondment as he had to cook his own meals, do his own laundry and no one to set his clothes out the night before.
I’m not making this up.
Here in Canada in this “modern” age.
He said in the end he decided not to have me brought back in handcuffs as it would traumatize our young son.
My point is, as funny as this man is, his views truly are not behind us.
I’m laughing, horrified and mad all at the same time.
And here we are, 40 years later, and they still aren’t able to catch on that they aren’t going to turn time back. So much for superior intelligence and logic. I just think it sucks that the poor women only kicked him to the curb so late in her life.
Sad Cat,
That awful. I’m so glad you got free of that nightmare.
Interesting addendum: In the decision their is reference to spousal support: For him.
Oh, the misandry in the system!
carp! there, not their.
Unfortunately it’s very likely that is the best she was able to do. No-fault divorce didn’t come into favor until around the time this guy was marching around with his signs (and there are some efforts to do away with no-fault divorce; see the “covenant marriage” thing in Louisiana). Prior to no-fault divorce a complaining spouse had to prove misbehavior to obtain a divorce, and often times women couldn’t make their case even in the event of cruelty.
I am glad that she was able to get a few years of peace before passing beyond this mortal coil. (And all of that is also to say, I need feminism because I don’t want to get stuck depending on a shitbag like this guy Harry Britton for my next meal!)
Hmm. I’m not sure what happened to the link for the page I was trying to cite when I said that women couldn’t make their case for divorce even in the event of cruelty, but here it is:
https://la.utexas.edu/users/jmciver/357L/59NC322.html
I like to think the random scare quotes are a subconscious indicator that deep down he knows he’s wrong. That’s why they’re so common in the weirdest crackpot manifestos.
“Teach a man to fish, and clean the fish, and cook the fish, and maybe he won’t spend all day covered in signs complaining about no one making him dinner.
Yeah, but the poor slob stands out on the hard pavement all day, plastered in hot signs in the middle of a cold, cold world. Just think how many leaflets he has to sell at 25¢ apiece if he wants to raise $2000 a year. Neither snow nor rain nor sleet deters him. He works so hard.
He hasn’t got time to cook his own fish. Haven’t you got any heart?
Robin Thicke would probably want to be BFFs with this guy.