JMarkOckerbloom, 2 months ago

@miriamrobern You can find this one and a lot more like it in Alice Duer Miller's 1915 book Are Women People?, online at https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11689/pg11689-images.html. She originally published many of them in the New York Tribune (though I don't know offhand if her "Why We Oppose Pockets for Women" had been published there first.)

thepoliticalcat, 2 months ago

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hosford42, 2 months ago

@thepoliticalcat @miriamrobern It is satire, thankfully. The fact that it's hard to tell, though, drives home the point.

danbz, 2 months ago

@miriamrobern this is great - do you have a source for it or newspaper / book reference ?

sarajw, 2 months ago

@miriamrobern I was getting kind of angry at this until the last point 😄

humanhorseshoes, 2 months ago

@miriamrobern I was in work one day taking a break when two women had a SERIOUS argument about pockets. It almost came to blows.

wonka, 2 months ago

@humanhorseshoes Did they have names?

#BechdelPocketTest

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revk, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

@miriamrobern I just (like half an hour ago) got some new shirts, nice short sleeved oxford cotton, and they arrived, and the bloody pocket is fake. All going back. How did you know?

My bad for not reading all the details I guess. But (being sexist, in line with your post) why the hell would any man want a "decorative blind pocket"?

(why would anyone want a decorative blind pocket not a real one?)

mishi, 2 months ago

@miriamrobern

We are still fighting for pockets. The front pockets in my levis are only 3” deep. They are ridiculously shallow. You’d think levis would get it right.

wonka, 2 months ago

@mishi Engelbert-Strauss gets it right.

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Zahlenzauberin, 2 months ago

@wonka @mishi @miriamrobern not in all women's trousers. The more "stylish" ones have those shallow mini pockets in front.