Were knowledable women ever forced by social mores to keep quiet in formal dinner conversations? Uh, no. So where's the joke?
I see more and more of this strange historical revisionism. (e.g."Down With Love") Remaking the past so that the peculiar prejudices and bigotries of the present can seem more enlightened in contrast.
Were knowledable women ever forced by social mores to keep quiet in formal dinner conversations? Uh, no. So where's the joke?
ReplyDeleteI see more and more of this strange historical revisionism.
(e.g."Down With Love")
Remaking the past so that the peculiar prejudices and bigotries of the present can seem more enlightened in contrast.