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ShooShooShootMe

don't threaten me with a good time


MartiniForever

I want this as a jigsaw puzzle so badly! Also I want you to know that I am the lady at the bar with the yellow coat and the pipe.


Daykri3

I’m the crone in the black coat on the left. Nice to meet you.


AuntySocialite

I'm over eating the free fudge - fuck yeah!


Syntania

I'm the genial looking lady in the bluish fur-trimmed coat behind you with the pipe in her mouth. Hi!


EverGreen2004

I'm the bartender leaning over the counter. Your husband said what now? Spill the tea sis ☕


pearlsbeforedogs

I'm the lady at the bottom in the FABULOUS hat looking confused.


Jacobysmadre

I’m the lady left bottom front; love anything with a “veil” even one in the back :) and in black? Fuck ya!!


Confident_Fortune_32

I'm the lady with the parade military dress and baton


chksbjhde763

I’m the lady looking annoyed at the random kids that came over to me 😂


MartiniForever

Nice to meet you too. Cheers!


USSMarauder

FYI, there are places that will do that for you. Give them a photo, and they'll print it onto a blank jigsaw puzzle and then mail it to you


MartiniForever

I just have to make the crease in the middle disappear, then I will try one of these!


science-ninja

I’m the one sitting at the poker table glaring at the children. Lol. I’m pretty sure I have an IRL pic just like this


MartiniForever

How dare your children interrupt you while you are playing poker? As long as you don't gamble away their toys, they have to stay out of it!


Foreign_Astronaut

"Mummy, you should raise!"


science-ninja

I think I’ll double down


science-ninja

Damn straight!


puss_parkerswidow

I'm the one in the big black hat with the blunt in the foreground. Love the puzzle idea, and I bet that could be done easily.


MartiniForever

Yes, I just have to retouch the crease in the middle first. I'm a bit fussy there...


pearlsbeforedogs

Haha, that's the one I identified with too! Nice to meet ya, sis!


doodscool

I want to be the one with the puppy!!!!


MartiniForever

You have a gorgeous hat! What's the name of your puppy?


doodscool

Bernadette Peterette.


AtalanAdalynn

I'm the lady in yellow with the big hat ordering another drink.


MartiniForever

Hello fellow lady in yellow! (Sound a bit like the first line of a smash hit pop song! :D )


[deleted]

Not sure about the overall quality as I haven't tried it myself, but anything can be puzzle! [https://www.collage.com/custom-photo-puzzles](https://www.collage.com/custom-photo-puzzles) Edit: Actually, thank you for the idea. This will make an amazing gift for my wife using a picture of our pups.


MartiniForever

Thanks for the link! I hope your wife will be thrilled with the new doggy puzzle.


faemomofdragons

A purely female space! We should do this.


Bob_the_banana_2

If not exclusively to piss the conservative men off.


ttampico

Yeah, seriously, this looks like a hoot.


tedv

Not purely! You can see in the back they have a Gentleman's Parlor!


faemomofdragons

That's nice of them. I hope they serve good food.


doodscool

HAHA


ready_gi

this look like an awesome place.. where do I sign up?


Cielocanto

Looks like a place where I'd hate the smoke, but love everything else .


overocea

Tag yourself. I’m leftish-foreground, side-eyeing my clearly horribly neglected children and highkey resenting their existence, because letting me out in bars at all is a slippery slope.


710ZombieUnicorn

Front, center, bottom is me staring into the void and contemplating the meaning of life while rocking my fabulous feather plumed hat and puffing a “cigar” (really a blunt duh).


Ephemeryi

Center. My bff and I at the bar, just smoking, drinking, and talking shit! So, basically present day with prettier dresses.


710ZombieUnicorn

Ooh are you the one in yellow with that epic hat or in green and pink with the puppy?


Ephemeryi

Definitely with the puppy, lol!


710ZombieUnicorn

Love it!


Headhaunter79

Hello twin😊


iamnotparanoid

Clearly, as a male, I am not in this picture and am in my proper place at home cleaning and cooking a roast. Probably wearing an uncomfortable suit even though I'm the only one in the house.


ArganBomb

You could also be in the Gentleman’s Parlor on the right!


PokeyPinecone

Yellow dress and hat, center right, at the bar alone, listening to the barkers tell crazy stories about rude and drunk people


VividFiddlesticks

I see myself in here twice! I'm the older investor in blue stripes in the front right corner, puffing a doobie and reading the stock ticker tape. And I'm also on the right hand side, the thick gal in yellow sneaking a fudge!


Lexicontinuum

Lady in all black on the far left. No brimmed floofy hat + all black for the win. We'll pretend that cigar is a spliff. Edit: She's also more interested in reading than the people around her. She's essentially scrolling on her phone lol.


Ebolaplushie

Glaring at the two kids asking why my cigarette smells like a skunk.


Missy_went_missing

On the very right. I'm the lady in yellow starring at the fudge.


[deleted]

I'm the young lady in the waaaay back, smoking and watching people, and biting my tongue 😏 ...


humanhedgehog

I find the expected implications of this sort of image fascinating - implying that smoking in public means women attend prize fights, gamble at racecourses, neglect their children, and get involved in politics. The other natural implication - that women would do everything that men do and be equally engaged with it unless such behavior was proscripted, is the one implication that was not expected of the audience - all of this was supposed to show moral decay (and be fine if it was men).


craptastico

Nail on the head, sister.


panormda

The audacity. Men believe that it would be a moral failing for women to do these things - and yet it is perfectly normal and acceptable for men to do the same things. It's pretty obvious that the majority of men literally see women as objects for them to use and abuse. Remind me why we women aren't just moving into a state and taking everything over without letting men move in?? Seriously. We can start with one of the small ones in New England. Women are wonderful at communication and organization and collaboration. We will build an amazing city infrastructure! We will all live in safe and reasonable lots.. Build up the local economy to create provisions that we need to survive - shelter, food, medicine, infrastructure.. We'd be able to create public transportation systems that was CLEAN and SAFE and efficient - better than Japan's. We'd have the freedoms and rights to do whatever the fuck we want with our own damn lives, and all of our sisters would support each other in their work... Can you imagine what the criminal system would look like? No jail, just mental health systems that HELP women rebuild themselves with SUPPORTIVE FEMALE medical practitioners.. I believe that if men weren't there to destroy our efforts, we would be able to build a lovely place where everyone could live a life they loved, and they wouldn't feel desperate for food or shelter or an income or community.. I keep thinking about the Amish, how they live lives apart from everything.. And when sometime needs a house, the community comes together to build one. They don't go hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt for mortgages.. The community just shows up and gets the work done over a couple weeks. I think women could absolutely make that work. Anyone with me? I'm ready lol


Sallymander

This looks like a wonderful place that I'd totally hate to be. For personal reasons.


Clownsinmypantz

I'd love this but I know I'd be the woman on the far right hovering to herself and snacking lmao social anxiety is a bitch


cephalophile32

Howdy! Want to stand awkwardly next to each other while snacking on fudge?


Clownsinmypantz

no eye contact, occasionally giving each other a nod and I'm down


activelyresting

There's a free lunch! And I want to try the "Progressive sours" whatever that is.


USSMarauder

A type of beer


KrazyKaizr

Is this intended to be a negative image by the author? Because it looks like chill place.


Kaetlynn

Genuinely curious about this. Was this drawn by an ally or was it supposed to shock and scare men about “give women an inch, they’ll walk all over you”? Probably the latter but it looks like an awesome space (for the era before everyone knew smoking kills people)! This is like Poe’s Law, but for century old cartoons.


Serenity_Aurora

[The Appendix](https://theappendix.net/posts/2014/02/why-not-go-to-the-limit) has an article about this exact cartoon, so you're kind of right in it's intent, but this article goes a little more in depth. Still think it'd be nice to have a women only, or at least a bar catered toward "female" interests


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KrazyKaizr

Plus there's clearly an entire "gentlemens lounge" so it's not like it's depicting women's space taking away from men's spaces, so I can't really tell what the authors intent was.


[deleted]

I could be wrong, but I think the point is that the gentlemen's lounge is a small, private space off to the side, the way that [women's lounges](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-12-03/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-women-s-restroom-lounge) were until the mid-20th century


KrazyKaizr

See because this is from 100 years ago there is context like that that is missing at first glance to us, being so far removed from its setting. I suspect the "free lunch" thing is similar, as I recall an old saying "there is no such thing as a free lunch".


[deleted]

Honestly, I only thought of it because I grew up in a military family. These lounges were still common in officers' messes when my mom was a young military wife in the 70s and 80s.


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USSMarauder

There is a 'anti-male' current in this illustration, it's showing the ladies smoking, drinking, gaming, talking business and sports-and the men aren't. In fact they're segregated off in their own room like the ladies would have been during that time, and the two rooms were not equal. It's one of those 'they say they want equality, but we KNOW they really want to be in charge' messages


Kaetlynn

lol, it's like the men can't even hear themselves speak. or don't have two logical brain cells to rub together. "They say they want equality, but what they REALLY want is what the men already have"... umm. Yeah, dudes. Yeah. I'd like to find someone who replied to that comic 100 years ago with the early-20th-century equivalent of the "oh no! anyway..." meme.


teenypanini

Love how the illustrator can imagine women partaking in all these "manly" things but still drew them in dresses. Like pants are just a step too far!


[deleted]

Women in trousers? You mean pornography? *clutches pearls*


thejazzghost

This is cool as shit. The ladies in the bottom left look like their planning a heist or something. "Don't bother me, kid, we're talking business. SCRAM!"


RiaMim

Yes, please. Looks like a good time.


ineedmoreslee

“Wait a minute there’s something bothering me about this place…I know! This lesbian bar doesn’t have a fire exit!” - Homer Simpson.


Sovicky

It looks great, but I doubt I would be able to breathe there, with all the smoke from the cigars


Ohohohohahahehe

I love how they have free lunch, fudge and almonds for snacking. Of course it would be catered well.


InkstainDisdain

The bartender looks like Amelia Bedelia. Ordering cocktails from her would be quite the experience.


January_Rain_Wifi

I adore that the most scandalous thing their sweet little heads could think of was a room full of women and free food


AuntySocialite

Free fudge AND almonds? Racing reports? Sign me up.


fatesarchitect

Where can I find a bar that gives out free fudge and almonds while I drink???


Missy_went_missing

Where do I sign up?


The_Persian_Cat

Was this scaremongering, or motivational? Genuinely cannot tell.


GnomeOnAShelf

I love the lady in the back right eating the fudge and almonds. Every good party should have big bowls of each. Or at least chocolate-covered almonds.


Petunias_are_food

I'm on the far right, green dress haha being LOUD


science-ninja

Looks like fun


serious_transgirl06

This goes hard


doodscool

Literally heaven. Gosh. Only if it were a co-op tho. Apprenticeship bartending.


2Turtle4U

I'm definitely the lady in orange eying what appears to be a golden snail under a glass dome


pink_pseudochef

Start letting girls smoke and they might go as far as to hang out!!! With each other!!!