I had to look up the history of the Chicago Tribune to fully understand the malarky behind this article. After a quick wikipedia search, one finds that the paper was run with a distinctly Republican, misogynist viewpoint that was firmly in the camp of being against women's voting rights, so of course they ran these crazy, fear-mongering articles that are akin to rape victim blaming.
Pity the woman whose only weapon on hand against a assailant was a just book or a slipper.
It's interesting to study how this and similar papers were the Republican propaganda vehicles of the 19th and 20th century, and were as equally phony and hypocritical as FOX News is today.
E.R, When I first saw the graphics in that article, I assumed it was framed toward “what women need to protect themselves from domestic abusers.” But when I got into the OCR of text - I realized it was just the opposite.
Thanks for that extra research. Provides some historical context to see the roots of anti-female slant. Fox News certainly echos the Tribune.
I suspect this is pushback against the Women's Temperance Movement, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Battle Axe herself, Carrie Nation. These women put domestic violence and women's rights on the national agenda even if it meant taking up their "witches brooms."
PS: Didn't William Randolph Hearst build his newspaper empire in Chicago and ultimately bought the Trib?
I had to look up the history of the Chicago Tribune to fully understand the malarky behind this article. After a quick wikipedia search, one finds that the paper was run with a distinctly Republican, misogynist viewpoint that was firmly in the camp of being against women's voting rights, so of course they ran these crazy, fear-mongering articles that are akin to rape victim blaming.
Pity the woman whose only weapon on hand against a assailant was a just book or a slipper.
It's interesting to study how this and similar papers were the Republican propaganda vehicles of the 19th and 20th century, and were as equally phony and hypocritical as FOX News is today.
E.R, When I first saw the graphics in that article, I assumed it was framed toward “what women need to protect themselves from domestic abusers.” But when I got into the OCR of text - I realized it was just the opposite.
Thanks for that extra research. Provides some historical context to see the roots of anti-female slant. Fox News certainly echos the Tribune.
The truly disturbing "journalism" aside, thanks for giving Lori some new ideas, Peter. A really dirty Swiffer just zoomed to the top of her list!
You could come back at her dressed as Mr Clean
Bad move. Then she hits me with the slippers.
I know better than to get in a quip smack down with you.
Smart. I am the broom handle of quipsters.
And someone that likes to have the last word
I suspect this is pushback against the Women's Temperance Movement, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Battle Axe herself, Carrie Nation. These women put domestic violence and women's rights on the national agenda even if it meant taking up their "witches brooms."
PS: Didn't William Randolph Hearst build his newspaper empire in Chicago and ultimately bought the Trib?
Clearly the battle lines had been drawn. Here's an older post on the subject of the sexes. https://forgottenfiles.substack.com/p/union-against-union-1900
Word!