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.