Paul FairieA List of Things People Blamed on Flappers
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Jean Weber@paulisci My grandmother was a flapper, and later involved in the sly grog trade during prohibition. I am proud of her contributions to the decline of civilisation, as evidenced by this thread. I shall seek out some of your other work.
Charles ☭ is now tooting from queer.partyWith both whaling and forest fores, I think we can declare flappers ecologically neutral.
localzuk@paulisci wow, I never realised how busy flappers were!
Amelia Bellamy-Royds 
@paulisci Thanks to reverse-chronological timelines & mstdn.ca's "collapse replies" option, I get to scroll through the list of ruined things & guess what modern social ill might be the cause.
I, uh, didn't guess this time!
Rozzychan
Disco Sexual@Rozzychan @AmeliasBrain @paulisci I'm sensing a pattern. Making a note here not to blame the problems in my dotage on the stupid sexy youths and their kooky dances
@AmeliasBrain Hah, yes. I do think Mastodon adds an element of mystery to these threads :)
Shane@paulisci damned flappers!
thefathippy
AT Hayes@paulisci I KNEW it!
Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0@paulisci the poor, innocent driver...
lopta@paulisci I think this one's my favourite. I'm going to check the date against local tram service.
@paulisci They officially shut down here in 1931, though it seems they'd been in decline since the early 1920s. #Streetcar
jonny (good kind)@paulisci
hahahahaha this is the best one of these yet
hahahahaha this is the best one of these yet
Nate Gaylinn@paulisci I love that this implies that the engineer's noise damping solution was frilly dresses on an evenly dispersed crowd of women. The flappers are shirking an important responsibility! They should be playing their critical role in the radio system's design.
Kate Watson@paulisci The skin and tissue of flappers must reflect sound waves. Huh. There’s more to this story than meets the eye ☺️
Mrs Cloudy@paulisci quite the headline. 🤣
Andrew Benedict-Nelson@paulisci I did research from 1920s newspapers for a project in grad school and they were filled with stories like this. Ill health effects of jazz, etc. Crazy
Richie Enameller@paulisci OMG this is my favorite. 🤣🤣🤣💀
Artemis@paulisci
Special glasses to prevent men from ogling women while driving perhaps?
Special glasses to prevent men from ogling women while driving perhaps?
Eva Chanda
Dana@paulisci
Flappers: making women ugly
Also Flappers: causing car accidents because male drivers ogle them too much
PensionDan@paulisci May be related to the number of neck braces required by male patients in South Florida caused by breast augmentation.
Greg Stolze@paulisci "biologist and publicist"
Killa Koala@GregStolze I know, that's not a career path you see much anymore!
Major Denis Bloodnok@paulisci That one's particularly fine given trains were nearly all steam-powered at the time, which has been known to give off a spark or two. ;-)
Colorblind Cowboy@paulisci And the whales are under the sea being like, "our plans to influence movies and fashion magazines of the hooomans are working just as planned."
Fardels Bear
Red_Shirt_no2@paulisci
I misread that as “whale-caching industry” and my mind wobbled
I misread that as “whale-caching industry” and my mind wobbled
David Crispin@paulisci this may seem like a silly question, and I'm sure I could google it, but in your words, what is friggin 'flapper'?
ulrikkold@david_crispin @paulisci I went and did a web search for "Flapper" since I didn't know the term.
This is what Wikipedia told me: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flapper
"Flappers were a subculture of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts (knee height was considered short during that period), bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.... "
Mark Shane Hayden
@paulisci Oh hell yes.
Tom von Alten@paulisci impressive
Matt Palmer@paulisci this is a mighty ride.
toxtethogrady@paulisci You've got to be careful of flappers. They're the Number One Reason toilets leak...
Shannon Kay@paulisci I love these so much. I preordered your book!
Years ago(on Tumblr?), I read an old clipping complaining that students were relying too much on paper and didn't know how to use slates properly.
@paulisci It's obvious — today the US supreme court must be infested with Flappers!
Mr Lawrence 🇪🇺🇷🇼@paulisci Flappers sound awesome! I want to meet some!
Keith Bohanna
AnneTheWriterThat #thread🧵 reads like what people would have seen on #FoxNews in the #1920s. 😄
That's a great #thread🧵 on #flappers!
It's also a great reminder how women dressed was often blamed for the actions of men, how older generations have always fought against change, and how many small battles we have always been fighting for #feminism.
#History #Historical #Histodon #Histodons #WomensRights #Sufferage #Fashion #WomensMovement #WomensFashion #HistoryofFashion