Flappers are killing the whaling industry
May 5, 2023 2:48 PM Subscribe
"One of the recent factors to affect agriculture has been the decree of fashion that all women who matter must have slender figures [...] This has made a definite reduction in the demand for potatoes, starchy vegetables and fattening foods"
posted by Gorgik at 3:09 PM on May 5, 2023 [7 favorites]
posted by Gorgik at 3:09 PM on May 5, 2023 [7 favorites]
This explains so much about the last few weeks. I don't want to alarm anyone but:
When is Ron DeSantis going to crack down on flappers? He hasn't said one word about them. He's really dropping the ball here.
I lost my job and I'm pretty sure my boss said "Vo-do-do-dee-oh" at the very end of the Zoom call.
I always try to warn the youth when I see them wearing strings of pearls and Charlestoning for TikTok. I don't like the way they move their arms to the jungle rhythms of jazz...
One time my friend drank a whiskey sour at a speakeasy right after bobbing her hair and then she died.
OK it was a friend of a friend, but you get the point.
I am only concerned about the sanctity of marriage and the purity of women. That's why I bring these things up. /S
posted by Freecola at 3:33 PM on May 5, 2023 [27 favorites]
When is Ron DeSantis going to crack down on flappers? He hasn't said one word about them. He's really dropping the ball here.
I lost my job and I'm pretty sure my boss said "Vo-do-do-dee-oh" at the very end of the Zoom call.
I always try to warn the youth when I see them wearing strings of pearls and Charlestoning for TikTok. I don't like the way they move their arms to the jungle rhythms of jazz...
One time my friend drank a whiskey sour at a speakeasy right after bobbing her hair and then she died.
OK it was a friend of a friend, but you get the point.
I am only concerned about the sanctity of marriage and the purity of women. That's why I bring these things up. /S
posted by Freecola at 3:33 PM on May 5, 2023 [27 favorites]
Why on earth were barbers against bobbed hair?
These are pretty hilarious, but what’s sad is the misogynist politician blaming Prohibition on women—because he was right. Prohibition was a feminist cause at the time. I’ve often wondered about the damage it did to American feminism, which more or less vanished as a cause after suffrage was won until the second wave.
posted by Countess Elena at 3:35 PM on May 5, 2023 [5 favorites]
These are pretty hilarious, but what’s sad is the misogynist politician blaming Prohibition on women—because he was right. Prohibition was a feminist cause at the time. I’ve often wondered about the damage it did to American feminism, which more or less vanished as a cause after suffrage was won until the second wave.
posted by Countess Elena at 3:35 PM on May 5, 2023 [5 favorites]
Whaling! Overshoes! Ocular loop de loop! Physics misfits!
Now I know how this country went so wrong.
posted by jeremias at 3:38 PM on May 5, 2023 [1 favorite]
Now I know how this country went so wrong.
posted by jeremias at 3:38 PM on May 5, 2023 [1 favorite]
my grandmother was a flapper. Or so I was told by my mom not long before she (my mom) died.
"What were flappers?" I had to ask.
"They liked to dance and have fun, that sort of thing."
Full reveal. My grandmother did hail from Halifax, Nova Scotia, a major port city with an active fishery. So there's every possibility she did her bit to undermine the whaling industry.
posted by philip-random at 3:42 PM on May 5, 2023 [36 favorites]
"What were flappers?" I had to ask.
"They liked to dance and have fun, that sort of thing."
Full reveal. My grandmother did hail from Halifax, Nova Scotia, a major port city with an active fishery. So there's every possibility she did her bit to undermine the whaling industry.
posted by philip-random at 3:42 PM on May 5, 2023 [36 favorites]
Any will take any opportunity to point out the fact that until the US introduced the Endangered Species Act in 1972, whale oil was still a component in automobile transmission fluid.
posted by brachiopod at 3:57 PM on May 5, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by brachiopod at 3:57 PM on May 5, 2023 [1 favorite]
FLAPPER'S FANNIES BLAMED FOR ECHOES IN RADIO RECEPTION. I can believe that. I have caressed some asses that were a force of Nature / blessing from God. All hail Flapper's fannies!
posted by Silvery Fish at 4:11 PM on May 5, 2023 [5 favorites]
posted by Silvery Fish at 4:11 PM on May 5, 2023 [5 favorites]
This can be laid squarely at the feet of Flappers, Beatniks, Hippies, Hipsters, Millenials, Gen Z.
posted by BrotherCaine at 4:11 PM on May 5, 2023 [9 favorites]
posted by BrotherCaine at 4:11 PM on May 5, 2023 [9 favorites]
OK, flapper
posted by chavenet at 4:28 PM on May 5, 2023 [25 favorites]
posted by chavenet at 4:28 PM on May 5, 2023 [25 favorites]
"Lisa, stay away from that jazz man"
-Marge Simpson.
posted by clavdivs at 4:45 PM on May 5, 2023 [16 favorites]
-Marge Simpson.
posted by clavdivs at 4:45 PM on May 5, 2023 [16 favorites]
Just think, all of this was before avocados or toast were invented.
posted by mhoye at 6:11 PM on May 5, 2023 [12 favorites]
posted by mhoye at 6:11 PM on May 5, 2023 [12 favorites]
"Lisa, stay away from that jazz man"
-Marge Simpson.
posted by Stu-Pendous at 7:09 PM on May 5, 2023 [1 favorite]
-Marge Simpson.
posted by Stu-Pendous at 7:09 PM on May 5, 2023 [1 favorite]
When is Ron DeSantis going to crack down on flappers?
I think Minnie Mouse might count as a flapper. I mean, she's no Betty Boop but I'm pretty sure she never wears a corset.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 7:59 PM on May 5, 2023 [3 favorites]
I think Minnie Mouse might count as a flapper. I mean, she's no Betty Boop but I'm pretty sure she never wears a corset.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 7:59 PM on May 5, 2023 [3 favorites]
Oh, you'd be surprised at what you can find on the internet.
posted by zengargoyle at 8:15 PM on May 5, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by zengargoyle at 8:15 PM on May 5, 2023 [2 favorites]
Ms. Windo's grandmother was a flapper back in the day. She was probably 80 when I met her, so I was unaware of her destructive years. But, looking back, I can see how she would have done all these terrible things to society...
She was a badass
posted by Windopaene at 8:19 PM on May 5, 2023 [6 favorites]
She was a badass
posted by Windopaene at 8:19 PM on May 5, 2023 [6 favorites]
This is the guy who said that flappers were making American women ugly. Albert E. Wiggam: eugenicist, misogynist, white Nordic supremacist, chiseled Adonis.
No relation to the Springfield chief of police...probably.
posted by PlusDistance at 9:05 PM on May 5, 2023 [5 favorites]
No relation to the Springfield chief of police...probably.
posted by PlusDistance at 9:05 PM on May 5, 2023 [5 favorites]
The radio reception one sent me over. Misogyny just never gets old!
posted by latkes at 11:57 PM on May 5, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by latkes at 11:57 PM on May 5, 2023 [1 favorite]
One thing is, newspapers were a lot more fun in those days.
"coke jugglers" "feminine preponderance" "the Viking declared" &c...
posted by chavenet at 2:32 AM on May 6, 2023 [4 favorites]
"coke jugglers" "feminine preponderance" "the Viking declared" &c...
posted by chavenet at 2:32 AM on May 6, 2023 [4 favorites]
User names! Get your user names!
posted by GenjiandProust at 2:40 AM on May 6, 2023 [8 favorites]
posted by GenjiandProust at 2:40 AM on May 6, 2023 [8 favorites]
> One time my friend drank a whiskey sour at a speakeasy right after bobbing her hair and then she died..
i'm pretty sure that's a picture of clara bow
posted by bombastic lowercase pronouncements at 7:53 AM on May 6, 2023
i'm pretty sure that's a picture of clara bow
posted by bombastic lowercase pronouncements at 7:53 AM on May 6, 2023
I'm fairly sure sheiks *) killed a lot more than that.
*) I had to look up what a male flapper is called
posted by flamewise at 9:39 AM on May 6, 2023 [2 favorites]
*) I had to look up what a male flapper is called
posted by flamewise at 9:39 AM on May 6, 2023 [2 favorites]
Read the last one carefully. The judge was upset that a sixteen year old was asking for a divorce. A child was trying to get out of her marriage. And the flappers were to blame.
posted by Hactar at 12:43 PM on May 6, 2023 [10 favorites]
posted by Hactar at 12:43 PM on May 6, 2023 [10 favorites]
"Oh this generation is worse than the hippies, the flappers and the Nazis combined!"
"The hippies gave us those fat watch bands, and the flappers could dance, and the Nazis had that song 'Eight Days a Week'"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY8YIn5okX8
posted by symbioid at 9:23 AM on May 7, 2023
"The hippies gave us those fat watch bands, and the flappers could dance, and the Nazis had that song 'Eight Days a Week'"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY8YIn5okX8
posted by symbioid at 9:23 AM on May 7, 2023
Proud granddaughter and great-niece here of the first girls in their neighborhood to bob their hair. Lively, witty set of four sisters (they also wrote a terrific group journal about a New York to California round trip in a Model A Ford) and I miss them all very much.
posted by tangerine at 12:02 PM on May 7, 2023 [5 favorites]
posted by tangerine at 12:02 PM on May 7, 2023 [5 favorites]
Is the journal online, tangerine? I'd love to read it?
posted by tavella at 5:34 PM on May 7, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by tavella at 5:34 PM on May 7, 2023 [2 favorites]
No, but that would be a great project to take on. I should absolutely do that. Thanks for the idea, tavella!
posted by tangerine at 9:49 AM on May 8, 2023 [5 favorites]
posted by tangerine at 9:49 AM on May 8, 2023 [5 favorites]
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