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Everett True teaches a rude man to respect women [Outbursts of Everett True, 1914] (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Broads and dames.
To boost attendance at games in Ebbets Field back in the 1940s, the Brooklyn Dodgers started with the "Ladies Night" concept, and supposedly things got rowdier and louder - by a long shot - on those occasions than on any other, regular ol' night.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

People really used to brawl back in the day, fr fr.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Did he just assault Conan O'Brien?!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Haha yes! Its gotta be that long nose and smirky expression

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

The lesson I've learned is keep out True's reach

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Anyone have a link to a compilation?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Here's a website that appears to have all of them:

https://www.barnaclepress.com/comic/Outbursts%20of%20Everett%20True/

And here's an old book with the collection from Michigan State University:

https://d.lib.msu.edu/gnn/1562

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Thank you!

Edit: well, after a quick Look through of Mr. Everett True it appears the OP comic is one of the few supporting a more legit view. Otherwise he’s just a selfish and violent jerk with no tact or desire to be publicly tolerant of things everyone does to get along in society. He doesn’t mind cracking skulls over irritations. All couched in the premise of “that’s how we all really feel” to make it OK. He’s into shaming and beating kids, throwing women into prison for whatever irritation their kid generates, etc.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Yeah, this was indeed one of the only good ones.

The rest is just complaining about anything.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

yeah, chicks hate that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

If I've told them once, I've told them a thousand times.

Never call chicks broads.

[+] [email protected] -17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

Good start.

Now learn that there are people who don't even like the word "lady" because of its etymological origin.

The "l" and "a" are effectively those of the word "loaf", and the "-dy" comes from a word meaning "dough-worker". That is, "lady" is the title for someone who makes the bread. The one who does the cooking. The one whose place is in the kitchen.

The person who taught me this was fine with the descriptor "woman" on account of "man" being the species first. They considered later male-specific interpretations to be irrelevant.

Edit: Now are the downvotes because they don't agree with this argument, or because I chose this place and time to bring this up. Hmm.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Etymology isn't relevant to how a word is used now. I can guarantee you that nobody hears the word "lady" and thinks "They just called me a bread-maker! How rude!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

What I've learned from this comment is that there is an extremely small percentage of gals who may dislike the term ladies based on a very obscure reason, so until they tell me their personal objections the reasonable thing is to go with the common societal usage of the word.

You're probably getting down voted because it'd be the same as if I got on my high horse and replied, "well you oughta learn that some people don't even like the word 'person' because it reminded them of existing".

Like sure, that happened to you and it's great that you can now refer to your friend the way they prefer. But that's such a niche situation that I don't think it should be conveyed in a manner as if people were inadequate for not knowing. Makes a good story to tell though.

If you'd just said "fun fact, some people blah blah blah" it carries a very different tone then "good start, now learn that blah blah blah"

One implies it is an experience you had, the other implies it is an experience that all others should've known.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You know, taking a 30 second look at the wiktionary page for 'lady' would have given you the proper etymological evolution of 'lady' and you still would have been correct about the meaning of the word that it originally evolved from. Either way, language grows and evolves. Meanings change. To judge a modern word off of its archaic origins is asinine.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

At no point did I say I held the opinion myself. The specific person I knew who held it would have been equally charitable about yours.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Hmm

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

Objecting to a word because of its origins 800 years ago is ridiculous. If people want to object to words based on possibly offensive origins, they'll have to throw out an awful lot of them!

As a side note, "lord" originates from the Old English words for "loaf ward", or keeper of the bread. Interesting!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

it used to be woman and werman and then the wer got dropped in modern English

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

wif(e)man and wer(e)man technically, but yeah.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

THERE man

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

thank you. I should've looked it up, I was just going off top of head

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ooooh there's a bunch from this series. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

There really is so much. According to wikipedia, it ran for 20 years until 1927, then was basically forgotten until some paper started reprinting them in the 1980s.

I'm trying to spread them out as best as I can.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I've seen restreams for Bloom County and Calvin and Hobbes, I wonder if anyone's doing Pogo yet. I wonder if I could set that up with minimum required maintenance...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I see there's a few books. Both older, scanned, archived online and new from Amazon.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Woke feminist marxist time travellers strike again!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Marxist?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The right likes to refer to "wokeness" as "cultural Marxism" now.

The word Marxism has historically been demonized by Red Scare propaganda, so the right likes to use the word to refer to anything that they don't like, like a Boogeyman of sorts.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

"Cultural Marxism" is a specific reference to the Nazi term "Cultural Bolshevism" btw

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Some one should turn this whole thing into the skeletor meme format

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago

Such an educator.