"Every one has been put in an embarrassing position by ignorance of the status of some woman." -the Springfield (Mass.) Sunday Republican of November 10, 1901.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
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Phew, thank God for Facebook.
(Also I use "Ms." obvs.)
"The chief and primary cause of this development and very rapid increase of nervousness is modern civilization, which is distinguished from the ancient by these five characteristics: steampower, the periodical press, the telegraph, the sciences, and the mental activity of women." - George Beard, American Nervousness: Its Causes and Consequences (1881)
The mental activity of women has been a primary concern of Mr. Beard and his descendants since at least the Sixties.
Mary Wollstonecraft got your number long before that. All a' yez. Just so's like ya fuckin' know.