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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

“Mill’s logic’ (Punch cartoon) The cartoon mocks John Stuart Mill’s attempt to replace the term ‘man’ with ‘person’, ie give women the right to vote, in the second Reform Bill of 1867. PRO LIBRARY Punch, p.129 (30 March 1867). Caption: MILL’S LOGIC; OR, FRANCHISE FOR FEMALES. “PRAY CLEAR THE WAY, THERE, FOR THESE - A - PERSONS.”

“Mill’s logic’ (Punch cartoon) The cartoon mocks John Stuart Mill’s attempt to replace the term ‘man’ with ‘person’, ie give women the right to vote, in the second Reform Bill of 1867. PRO LIBRARY Punch, p.129 (30 March 1867). Caption: MILL’S LOGIC; OR, FRANCHISE FOR FEMALES. “PRAY CLEAR THE WAY, THERE, FOR THESE - A - PERSONS.”

Female Suffrage, Male Suffering (Fun, June 12, 1875) via Patriactionary | Humour Interlude: Offend a Suffragette Edition

Female Suffrage, Male Suffering (Fun, June 12, 1875)

via Patriactionary | Humour Interlude: Offend a Suffragette Edition

questionableadvice: ~ Robt. H. Ingersoll & Bro., The Great Mail-Order Bargain House, ca. 1898“Have you some friend who is “bossy” or thinks she ought to vote?” “I’d like to order three dozen please.”

questionableadvice:

~ Robt. H. Ingersoll & Bro., The Great Mail-Order Bargain House, ca. 1898

“Have you some friend who is “bossy” or thinks she ought to vote?”

“I’d like to order three dozen please.”

gracetace: (thehumorlessfeminist) “Anti-suffragists drew heavily on the Victorian ideology of ‘separate spheres’… Their use of it led to the claim that female enfranchisement would sexualize politics and unsex women, confusing the proper boundaries of masculine and feminine, public and private, domestic and political, by which the natural complementarity of a harmonious social order was maintained.”

gracetace:

(thehumorlessfeminist)

“Anti-suffragists drew heavily on the Victorian ideology of ‘separate spheres’… Their use of it led to the claim that female enfranchisement would sexualize politics and unsex women, confusing the proper boundaries of masculine and feminine, public and private, domestic and political, by which the natural complementarity of a harmonious social order was maintained.”