History of Feminism

Exhibit A

(318 posts) Fri Feb 27, 2015, 06:29 AM Feb 2015

16 Shocking Vintage Posters That Warned Men About The Dangers Of Women Having Rights

(They're still using this one!)

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16 Shocking Vintage Posters That Warned Men About The Dangers Of Women Having Rights (Original Post) Exhibit A Feb 2015 OP

Heed my words! Men and children will start suffering from feminism any minute now! DetlefK Feb 2015 #1

LOL, n/t Exhibit A Feb 2015 #2

Whatever the issue, the forces of regression trot out the same old rurallib Feb 2015 #3

WTF? Why 56 pounds? Orrex Feb 2015 #4

Most likely came from this... Lochloosa Feb 2015 #6

Maybe because the Senate voted 56 to 25 Sweet Freedom Feb 2015 #7

Because it's a British cartoon. Spider Jerusalem Mar 2015 #8

And before ya know it BAM..a woman in the White House misterhighwasted Feb 2015 #5

Forgot one: ...and then an atheist. CrispyQ Mar 2015 #10

Weird how many attitudes are still prevalent ismnotwasm Mar 2015 #9

DetlefK

(16,518 posts)

1. Heed my words! Men and children will start suffering from feminism any minute now!

Reply to Exhibit A (Original post)

Fri Feb 27, 2015, 06:43 AM

Feb 2015

Any minute now!

Any minute now!

EDIT:I'm better gonna add a sarcasm-tag.

Exhibit A

(318 posts)

2. LOL, n/t

Reply to DetlefK (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 27, 2015, 06:45 AM

Feb 2015

rurallib

(63,324 posts)

3. Whatever the issue, the forces of regression trot out the same old

Reply to Exhibit A (Original post)

Fri Feb 27, 2015, 08:49 AM

Feb 2015

fear tactics - fear, fear, fear

Orrex

(64,431 posts)

4. WTF? Why 56 pounds?

Reply to Exhibit A (Original post)

Fri Feb 27, 2015, 08:57 AM

Feb 2015

Lochloosa

(16,462 posts)

6. Most likely came from this...

Reply to Orrex (Reply #4)

Fri Feb 27, 2015, 09:52 AM

Feb 2015

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight_throw

Weight throw for distance[edit]

The 56-pound weight throw was conducted twice at the Olympic Games, in 1904 and in 1920.

Sweet Freedom

(4,008 posts)

7. Maybe because the Senate voted 56 to 25

Reply to Orrex (Reply #4)

Fri Feb 27, 2015, 09:53 AM

Feb 2015

to adopt the Susan Anthony amendment to the Constitution?

Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)

8. Because it's a British cartoon.

Reply to Orrex (Reply #4)

Sat Mar 7, 2015, 06:51 AM

Mar 2015

56 pounds is four stone (a stone is 14 pounds). 56 pound weights (and 14, 28, and 112 pound weights) were common at the time; Google Books has references to "a 56 pound weight" in the writing of Robert Boyle (in the 1600's), in a number of the "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" from 1829, and Seamus Heaney (in a poem called "Weighing In&quot mentions a scale on his family's farm and a 56-pound weight used as a counterbalance.