somethings are maybe better left unsaid
Nov. 23rd, 2009 12:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unknownfateSo, somebody said something and I concocted a whole counterargument in my brain and later wondered if I should’ve said it out loud. You be the judge.
“Everybody is so aggressive these days!” complained the person. “Remember when something bad would happen and people reacted with horror instead of contempt? Like women! Women used to faint! Why don’t women faint anymore?”
I wasn’t finished with my eye-rolling by the time the person walked away, but I did supply an answer, if only in my brain.
In olden times, a woman could faint at something horrible, I thought huffily, and stood a decent chance of waking up on a couch being fanned or something, whilst the nearby gentlemen put the horrible thing right. Nowadays, we’re more likely to wake up robbed, raped, and maybe dead in a dumpster while the horrible thing was manfully ignored by the local menfolk. Simple evolution at work. Those who didn’t faint lived to pass on the ‘don’t faint’ genes.
To be fair, waking up RR&D was probably common in olden times too. But it seemed an appropriate reply to someone who thought incapacitating fear was a desirable and proper quality for a woman. We could also blame it on a lack of corsets, I suppose.
“Everybody is so aggressive these days!” complained the person. “Remember when something bad would happen and people reacted with horror instead of contempt? Like women! Women used to faint! Why don’t women faint anymore?”
I wasn’t finished with my eye-rolling by the time the person walked away, but I did supply an answer, if only in my brain.
In olden times, a woman could faint at something horrible, I thought huffily, and stood a decent chance of waking up on a couch being fanned or something, whilst the nearby gentlemen put the horrible thing right. Nowadays, we’re more likely to wake up robbed, raped, and maybe dead in a dumpster while the horrible thing was manfully ignored by the local menfolk. Simple evolution at work. Those who didn’t faint lived to pass on the ‘don’t faint’ genes.
To be fair, waking up RR&D was probably common in olden times too. But it seemed an appropriate reply to someone who thought incapacitating fear was a desirable and proper quality for a woman. We could also blame it on a lack of corsets, I suppose.
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Date: 2009-11-23 06:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-23 07:27 am (UTC)Yeah....
Date: 2009-11-23 11:08 pm (UTC)Men, in victorian times, were not judged by how strong they were, but by how well they treated women.
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Date: 2009-11-23 11:30 pm (UTC)Re: Yeah....
Date: 2009-11-24 05:00 am (UTC)Re: Yeah....
Date: 2009-11-24 06:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-24 06:45 am (UTC)