The History of Victorian Women in Sports | plus, cycling in a corset!

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  @asstrid_ · 4 years ago

  ... I'm intrigued by the working class women beating the shit out of each other in bar fights

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• TE

  @teawiththegoblins · 4 years ago

  &quot;Once again, bigoted art trying to take a dig at masc women and gender nonconforming people backfires and ends up making them look fucking badass...&quot; &nbsp;<br><br>I adore you, Kaz.

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• SI

  @silversamantha · 4 years ago

  I support a woman&apos;s right to be the &apos;angry, macho angel of the house.&apos;<br><br>But actually yes, it&apos;s pretty amazing that you made that in two days. Kaz got mad skills 😎

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• AG

  @AGothNamedWednessday · 4 years ago

  &quot;we can&apos;t let men know you have a torso and limbs under there&quot; has the same energy as &quot; <b>If the men find out we can shape shift, they&apos;re going to tell the church</b> &quot;

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• LE

  @lenaeospeixinhos · 4 years ago

  Guy: &quot;Ladies belong to a sex which for centuries has not been accustomed to exercise in the open air&quot;<br>Women who&apos;ve been working in agriculture for generations: &quot;Am I a joke to you?&quot;

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• FR

  @frankenstein_and_myrrh · 4 years ago

  &quot;Don&apos;t say feel my muscles, don&apos;t criticize peoples legs.&quot;<br><br>A small muscled man suggested these

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• IN

  @Infinite_voyager · 4 years ago (edited)

  It’s insane that this historical context for the XIX century was never explained and detailed on ANY of the many clases I took &nbsp;at uni for psychoanalysis. We spend plenty of time talking about the therapy (torture) used / inflicted by men like Breuer and Freud to their female patients that were “hysteric”, but not one second talking about how gender speciations and patriarchy can destroy your life.

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• FL

  @flamingoqueen281 · 4 years ago

  Worrying about the effects of bicycle seats on women&apos;s anatomy is funny to me, because of the two sexes I&apos;m pretty sure men&apos;s anatomy is far more likely to be damaged.

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• NE

  @neroyuffie · 4 years ago

  It&apos;s so nice to hear about the history of women in fencing. When I fenced in college they never talked about this, only about how fencing came about when fancy men didn&apos;t know how to use their rapiers do during drunken duels, no one won and both participants died of infection lol

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• YO

  @yonkapala · 4 years ago

  That story about receiving a porcelain bowl instead of a gold medal reminds me of a childhood insult: <br><br>Our basketball team participated in the boys&apos; tournament in the early 2000s, because we were far ahead of teams in our own division at the time. We ended up winning all but the final match, but instead of receiving the silver medal we were awarded gold medals for &quot;the best girls&apos; team in the tournament&quot;. We were the only girls&apos; team in the tournament... <br><br>Sure, the intentions were probably good, perhaps they had an idea of having this ready in case we lost to the Obviously Superior Boys and would thus have our Feminine Feelings hurt (I mean, what if a girl began crying? Utter chaos!), and wanted to have a consolation prize ready or something: But it would&apos;ve served them- &nbsp;and us - better to just pretend it didn&apos;t exist once we fought our way to the finals. <br><br>I remember being upset despite not really understanding why (oh, the naivety of youth!), but even more clearly I remember my mom being absolutely livid which was a rare occurence indeed. <br><br> I still go back to that (at least in my head) when people like to pretend that there&apos;s no room for improvement in the sports + I&apos;d be very pleasantly surprised if I learned this stuff no longer happens.

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• LU

  @lucbbb5464 · 4 years ago

  You have single-handedly convinced my great big queer self to get back to fencing. I miss it so much sometimes, but I&apos;ve always worried how people will see me since transitioning and that has held me back.

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• IR

  @irinakermong1217 · 4 years ago

  Me whenever I see a 1890s woman in a novel bemoaning the fact she can&apos;t go on adventures because of her corset and skirts: &quot;CYCLING OUTFITS EXIST, AND THEY LOOK SO CUTE 😭&quot;

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