You mean the part where most women I know get harassed or groped when they go clubbing, and bars letting only men do rounds to retrieve glasses since the women get groped to the point they cannot work?
Just to be pedantic: they have it easier now. They are allowed to vote for example. But we are obviously not “there” yet, as your example vividly shows.
That’s the big difference between the 1920s and 2020s. The 1920s had swing, but now that we’re in the future we have electro swing! It changes everything
The Y2K bug means we’re actually living in 1923 again. Which means that the BBC was just founded, silent films are still around, and the Ottoman Empire just collapsed. Also, color isn’t invented yet.
So how am I able to post this comment? Idk, use your imagination, I guess.
one of the Good subs was called 100YearsAgo, people post HQ scans of old newspapers and photos from today in 1923. it’s very fascinating seeing how language changed / didn’t change, the attitudes around politics, women, prohibition, the minimum wage, etc
I also like that they list Helen’s profession as "home girl ", which has since become a slang term itself, the original use being more or less extinct 😁
Curious what that profession actually is, is it a wife/“homemaker”? Or a paid profession that I couldn’t find on Google? I really tried to find that phrasing but in my defense I’m drunk and also Google sucks nowadays.
I think maybe a kind of servant that work around the house as in when a fancy lady would say “You must be exhausted from all that fox trotting! I’ll have the girl run you a bath” 🤷
I would guess she is simply a girl who hasn’t left home yet?
Today she would probably be a student, but she isn’t studying anything. Maybe she plans to become a housewife rather than train for a career, as that was a viable “career path” in those days.
Marx remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He did add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
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