TIL that some languages apparently have words inherently differentiating one's status as a citizen or resident of the entity versus a member of a particular ethnic or cultural group? I don't quite grasp the whole thing, although I heard the point being made. What's interesting to me is a) that there is such a thing, which seems very revealing of something about a culture that would need such concepts built into the language, and b) that there seem to be people who think it's inaccurate to interpret the word choice as meaningful. Firstly, since languages have all sorts of concepts built into them, many very specific to their primary culture of use, it seems reasonable that such a thing could exist. Not that I would have thought of it before, since I'm not from a culture where that sort of subtlety functions. Secondly, if that is, indeed, the subtlety of the word choices, where one essentially and inherently includes people, and the other excludes, then I'd kind o...
The theme there seems to be stark terror that the lives of men might start to become as bad as the lives of women. And no one will have even noticed that theme at the time!
ReplyDeleteIow, they knew domestic bliss was a propaganda lie, but didn't have a clue what to do now that it was exposed.
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting to look at the postcards in a few ways:
ReplyDelete1) It's not that much different than some of the BS that's used today about feminism/equality.
2) They definitely used a male model as one of the women in one of the few postcards that had photographs instead of drawings on them.
3) The trope of making the suffragette women looking masculine in appearance.
4) And a final, possibly only interesting to me: One of the postcards was date stamped 1/21/1909. I'd forgotten that libraries were date stamping collection materials that far back.