Thog's Sexist Masterclass
Jun. 14th, 2010 05:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
realthog"There is a certain type of girl, for example," said the Surveyor-General, dilating with a sense of his usefulness, "with a perfect passion for severe studies -- when they are not too difficult, you know."
-- H.G. Wells, The Sleeper Awakes (1911), p134
The women, in comparison with those Graham remembered, were as a class distinctly plain and flat-chested. Two hundred years of emancipation from the moral restraints of Puritanical religion, two hundred years of city life, had done their work in eliminating the strain of feminine beauty and vigour from the [workers].
-- H.G. Wells, The Sleeper Awakes (1911), p193
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Date: 2010-06-14 11:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-15 05:48 pm (UTC)Somebody didn't like women much!
Odd you should say that, because Wells's trouble in real life was that he liked them all too greatly.
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Date: 2010-06-15 02:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-15 05:51 pm (UTC)It's why the Pilgrim Fathers came to America, I fancy.
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Date: 2010-06-15 06:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-15 05:49 pm (UTC)BGut not the flat-chested ones who enjoyed severe studies, it'd seem. Well, not that sort of severe studies, anyway . . .
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Date: 2010-06-17 07:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-19 07:05 pm (UTC)Ah, yes, well . . . I had some explaining to do about that when Pam nnoticed.