Monday, July 12, 2010

copy + paste from my notes


A direct copy/paste because I am busy writing up a GRPP report for my adviser while in a fairly awesome mood (thank you, The Weekend). And my personal notes I add in when reading/documenting texts are LOL-able.

“Gossip of the Cyclers.” “Century Wheelmen of New York, Ball and Women Debarred from Century Runs.”New York Times. March 13, 1898. 4

"'A modest woman, it is urged, loses none of the finer points of femininity by wheeling under the proper conditions, but few men will be found who respect the dusty, perspiring, disheveled woman seen at the finish of the 100 miles of continuous exertion.' Fuck off"

Monday, July 5, 2010

disgrace!


Hello.

Editor's note: I wrote this post via Blooger, and while uploading today's image, something went wrong. An error page came up that said "Aw snap!" So fitting, considering my post today, which you will now read:

I have not been working too hard on Le GRPP due to a job that took me out of the Midwest and some activism that almost consumes me. I am reaching general burn out mode. But I have discovered that hiding behind headphones and reading 189s0 newspaper articles is scarily therapeutic.

I have a new award for today, titled "Awww Snap!"

Today's award goes to a quote from Mrs. Hopkins. Hopkins was *the* elite female cyclist in NYC and also ran The Wheelwoman, a publication about women and biking (no doh-yeeee). Hopkins did NOT like pants, bloomers, or any bottoms that were not skirts.
If you are wearing pants ladies, this is what she thinks of ya:

"She can’t be a man, and she is a disgrace as a woman. If a woman wants to dress like a Turk, she should put on the veil as well, so that no one will know who she is.”

Hopkins, Mary S. “Woman’s Wheeling Dress.” New York Times. Dec. 23, 1894. 21

AWWW SNAP!


I had a paragraph about Eclipse that I am too lazy to retype. Hence the reason for this image.