Yeah, that’s the part people always gloss over women’s doctoring meant a very specific, limited slice of medicine back then, not modern practice. The bridge thing is funny though, like society apparently progressed unevenly and just stopped halfway for the joke.
i was about to post, this is the literal 100 year old version of the eat hot chip and lie meme. Not even "joking literally", the format and wording of the "modern" one is similar as well.
That is specialized labor just like you being an engineer(in theory no clue what type you are), the person making scarfs aren't making anywhere near that rate + wedding upcharge
They didn't mean "owning a farm" or "medical doctor".
It's "sewing clothes for the family", "make the food", "do chores", "tend to the family", "make other type of food", "make more clothes", "entertain us", etc.
It's the difference of lay down and lie down. Lie - lay - lain, lay - laid - laid. But colloquially, it's very commonly also used the other way around.
There may be a translation issue here. The instrument I'm thinking of is much simpler than that - it seems the Swedish word is more narrow than the English. "Chord zither" seems pretty close.
I'm saddened by the defeat of American women, but as you point out, they really brought this on themselves. I for one welcome our new zither playing overlords.
I would cheerfully accept all aspects of modern society if everyone routinely cracked wise. The decline of society is much less witty than it should be.
It’s almost ideal, isn’t it? She can shake you a cocktail, drive you home if you got one too many, and keep your spirit up with wisecracks if you’re hangovered
Left would not dress like that, if she can tend a farm and "doctor". She'd a broad shouldered, rough and tumble, dip spitting, scratch yourself in public, calloused hand woman. Not lady, but woman.
I grew up rural. It never occurred to me that when I was doing soul-sucking farm chores that I was actually performing dainty old-timey womanhood. And all those times we were mending the pig fences or cleaning out the rabbit hutches? Apparently I was supposed to have been all done up in a Disney princess-style hoop skirt like Dr Zitherfingers here.
Supervising others doing the real work is the essential birthright of humanity.
"I can't just watch a man working. I have to get up, and walk about with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do, and supervise. It is my energetic nature." - Jerome K Jerome
I mean that all used to be mens work because as a woman you would have been busy with washing, cleaning, cooking, mending clothes etc. Even making new clothing by hand. If you had time also brewing and making dairy products.
Im sure some women did repair fences but that wasnt the norm. I lived on a very traditional farm at some point and the women would do a lot of indoor work while we repaired and build outside.
I don't know about yours but in a lot of traditional farms, animal care and feeding falls on women. Which involves mucking out stalls and wrangling cows for milking. Not dainty work at all.
Yeah sure animal care would still also be done by women but milking and feeding animals is different from wood work.
I mean life in general was less dainty in the past. That whole persona is more 1950s housewife than 1850s - for the 90%.
Try washing a whole households clothes on a washboard by hand. Thats physically demanding work still.
Depending on the man being injured. That scene in Little House where Charles gets injured just shows that when the men are injured everyone else has to move up a chore slot: pioneer women have to do the men’s work and the children have to do the woman’s tasks.
"Suzanne has good material, but she’ll never be able to make use of it. Suzanne has no sense of the modern world. What a wonder—lace pantaloons and a morning bath of milk. It’s old hat—fit for provincial firemen. No, I swear by the mustard gas that scorched my back by the ferryman’s house on the Yser—a modern prostitute, if she wants to be chic, must install a radio in her bedroom, learn to box, become as barbed as concertina wire, as fit as an eighteen-year-old boy, and be able to walk on her hands and dive into water from twenty meters. She should attend fascist rallies, talk about poison gases, and change lovers every week so as not to let them get used to being pigs. But mine, if you please, lies in a milk bath like a Norwegian salmon and dreams of a four-hectare farm. Vulgar fool—she’s got a brothel behind her."
And some of them had double clutch transmissions where you have to press the clutch, shift to neutral, release the clutch, use the throttle, press the clutch again and then shift into gear. And there were no gauges to tell you your rpms, so you had to know when it was time to shift based on sound and feel.
My husband has a car from 1926. I have no interest in learning how to drive it.
I love how they wrote this and expected people to choose the woman who spends all day working a vegetable garden rather than the woman with a good sense of humor, interesting hobbies, and a second salary.
All day every day therapist, mother, maid, nymph then a virgin, nurse then a servant, just an appendage, live to attend him so that he never lifts a finger. 🎶
It was the norm for a significant population of women to not get married and have children. Because giving birth still yielded a good chance of death. Everything changed post baby-boom.
Before my eyes focused, I thought the person on the right was a dude. Like yeah the wife has to be productive and the dude gets leisure, what’s the meme?
Eat hot chip and lie
I can neither play the zither or nor do the charleston. I've failed as a woman!
Can you wise crack?
I can all the other stuff!
Assuming a 1926 definition of "women's doctoring". Not assuming a 1926 level of bridge-playing.
Yeah, that’s the part people always gloss over women’s doctoring meant a very specific, limited slice of medicine back then, not modern practice. The bridge thing is funny though, like society apparently progressed unevenly and just stopped halfway for the joke.
I believe the correct connotation is 'can you Crack wise'.
I dont know how I know this but I am completely confident I am correct.
I don’t know what word you meant to use there, but “connotation” is not it.
As a straight guy that cooks, sews, and makes preserves I hope to land a steady beau who can make an honest woman out of me.
I can play the zither very well so I guess I fail as a man.
Essential study material
i was about to post, this is the literal 100 year old version of the eat hot chip and lie meme. Not even "joking literally", the format and wording of the "modern" one is similar as well.
Charge phone
Be bisexual
Candlelight, wicketkeep, girl-proprietorship
Women born after 1926 can't cook. All they know is drive a car, earn they own living, charleston, and play bridge.
Don't forget the wise cracking!
*1910 to compare the jokes but here is the upvote anyway
If you can tend farm and doctor, I assure you, you also can make your own living
I mean, you need to study a solid few years to "Doctor", even in 1926.
You have ghosts in your blood. Take some cocaine about it. Or, she has hysteria. As the doctor I prescribe an orgasm.
To be totally fair, orgasms have amazing medical properties.
Also there are no ghosts in the blood. Meaning whatever they did worked.
They did cocaine, mixed with both cannabis and opium. It made the babies stop crying
I'm sure it made the adults stop crying too. :'D
Can you even feel an orgasm at this point???
Do you even need to?
Cocaine and cannabis together sounds like a resting heart rate of yikes per minute. That's why the opium is in there.
I hate that you have a point.
Last big orgasm I had, the banshee screams disappeared.
I suppose 1920s medicine can still be valid.
/s (just in case)
That was your wife.
This is the most 80s sentence ever. 1880s or 1980s, either works.
What a time. What a time.
No. Needs mouse bites
Doctor! Doctor! I think I'm also suffering from hysteria!
How did we go from orgasms to hammer & spike to the brain?
Shit, if this is all it takes to be a doctor, I'm already qualified.
Doctors should still be prescribing orgasms, and that is a hill I will die on.
Hey doctor, I'm feeling a little tired can you give me some meth to pick me up?
It just means they can take care of someone that's sick. Like how you might use the word nurse today.
Of course, but I am trying to be funny, and won't let reality get in the way of that.
The entire 1926 curriculum be like:
if it smells cut it off
whiskey usually helps
eat fruit
That checks out, my grandma was born in 1926 and that's how she cooked.
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People in 2076 be like
Time is a flat circle...
But not in 2026! Just prescrib some crystals or oils. Or blame a medical c ok mpnay you want to create a stock dip for!
Not if youre legally not allowed to
It's 1926 people can just do anything and the authorities will never catch them (especially 3 years later)
They used to dress up for the bank robbery!
“And if anybody asks tell them it was Golden Joe and the Suggins gang!”
Suggondeez gang more like
Don't ask why he's called "Golden" Joe.
she can sew too. there is a market that skill even today.
The woman who tailored my wife's wedding dress charged more per hour than I make as an engineer.
It was a wedding dress is why.
That is specialized labor just like you being an engineer(in theory no clue what type you are), the person making scarfs aren't making anywhere near that rate + wedding upcharge
They didn't mean "owning a farm" or "medical doctor".
It's "sewing clothes for the family", "make the food", "do chores", "tend to the family", "make other type of food", "make more clothes", "entertain us", etc.
By 1929 those farm skills are gonna be very worthwhile, after all.
The point of the caricature is that they shouldn't
Unless you can't have a bank account
Women do not play the Zither anymore.
It's over...
What even is a zither???
You see, this is how far we have fallen from being based and trad.
It’s true. I fear I (a woman) do not know how to play a zither 😔
That's because all you do is dance Charlton, shake cocktail and drive car!
Looks like we need a r/drivecarandcharleston
Look at you, cracking wise
To be fair, it’s a tricky instrument to learn, especially those fancy concert ones with multiple registers, usually one fretted.
For shame!
Men dont know either though so you can just make something up and theres no way for them to know...
checkmatezithermate trad-life dorks.The west has been falling ever since greek philosophers invented the west in the year 2000 B.C.
It's a kind of instrument that's like a harp but smaller and lain flat on the ground.
Wait is it lain or laid? I truly don’t know
It's the difference of lay down and lie down. Lie - lay - lain, lay - laid - laid. But colloquially, it's very commonly also used the other way around.
zither played
Yes, it's from a slapstick movie but good for getting am idea
Not always, at least the baltic zither ("kannel") is often held. And the size can also vary a lot. The biggest difference is that zither usually has a soundbox and harps often don't.
It's arranged in chords, so even the dumbest person can play along in hymns. You are instantly proficient, but it's impossible to be a virtuoso.
Oh that’s pretty cool, actually
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAeYt-swWG0
There may be a translation issue here. The instrument I'm thinking of is much simpler than that - it seems the Swedish word is more narrow than the English. "Chord zither" seems pretty close.
This type of instrument
They’re quite nice actually https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B3Z9XBAw4cU&list=RDB3Z9XBAw4cU&start_radio=1&pp=ygUXU291bmQgb2Ygc2lsZW5jZSB6aXRoZXKgBwE%3D
Zither balls! Gotem
This is a video of ot being played from a comedic German movie about Winnetou.
Very lovely sound:
Zither Schuh des Manitou
This is a zither. It appears to be some kind of unholy mix between a guitar, a harp, and a washboard.
Honestly? Any woman who can play an instrument is a win in my book (even though I’d the girl on the right.)
its a table harp seen in xanxia often times
Millions of Chinese women still play the zither
I play the zither
Actually we have more than one kind of zither
This is the real reason China is on the route to world domination
If only you silly American women hadn’t handed our victory to us on a platter
We're doomed I say! Dooooooomed!!!
Chinese zither is so much cooler than European zither, too. We're cooked.
I'm saddened by the defeat of American women, but as you point out, they really brought this on themselves. I for one welcome our new zither playing overlords.
*overladies
Though historically men played the zither just as much as women, nowadays the most popular zither variety is played overwhelmingly by women
I actually considered using that word lol.
All hot girls do these days is shake cocktail, not play the Zither, and wisecrack
The west has truly fallen 😞
I would cheerfully accept all aspects of modern society if everyone routinely cracked wise. The decline of society is much less witty than it should be.
Can you Charleston to the zither?
With a fat enough beat
God, both of them are so cool
That's why they're being introduced to one another. They're going to get married.
A 1920s rural tradwife x urbanite flapper girl yuri manga when?
on that: https://www.reddit.com/r/GatekeepingYuri/comments/144z4wm/finally\_got\_around\_to\_do\_this\_one/ https://www.reddit.com/r/GatekeepingYuri/comments/10kmo2m/its\_probably\_been\_done\_already\_but\_i\_found\_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/GatekeepingYuri/comments/1gbe80k/teaching\_ms\_zither\_the\_charleston/
Holy based.
I knew in my heart r/GatekeepingYuri had already done that.
I'm gonna be writing a fanfic on ts
Thank you.
thank you
Dude, yes!
Dude
r/GatekeepingYuri
These types of polar opposite characters are perfect for yuri material
the needs of the many are less than the needs of the yuri
Oh, good on them.
Maybe this is controversial, but I think any woman should be able to crack wise
That genuinely is a trait I look for in a woman.
I have yet to regret seeking it out.
"Holy shit two cakes"
Gee willikers she can play the zither how swell!
If you wanted to listen to music at home, you needed to live with someone who could play music.
Ah unless you possess one of those fancy phonograph machines! A marvelous innovation!
I misread "sew" as "jew" and got really confused for a sec
What, have you never spent a pleasant evening jewing with your friends?
Same
Most women I've met don't know how to make cocktails. One on the right is far more appealing already.
Technically it doesn't say "make a cocktail" it says "shake a cocktail"
Which would imply she doesn't know recipes, but damn can she shake that shaker.
Still worth it though. Some wisecracking also does not go unappreciated.
It’s almost ideal, isn’t it? She can shake you a cocktail, drive you home if you got one too many, and keep your spirit up with wisecracks if you’re hangovered
They don't tend to crack as wise as I'd like either.
Left would not dress like that, if she can tend a farm and "doctor". She'd a broad shouldered, rough and tumble, dip spitting, scratch yourself in public, calloused hand woman. Not lady, but woman.
I grew up rural. It never occurred to me that when I was doing soul-sucking farm chores that I was actually performing dainty old-timey womanhood. And all those times we were mending the pig fences or cleaning out the rabbit hutches? Apparently I was supposed to have been all done up in a Disney princess-style hoop skirt like Dr Zitherfingers here.
It is always funny when "rural women" are portrayed as those Southern Belle semi-aristocrats who have not done a day of rural labor in their lives.
Ugh, plantation princesses 🤮
Now I realize that Goody-two-shoes Mirek Dušín should instead of his patented mince oath "You plantationer!" say "You fucker!", it would be less rude.
It's like with Roman aristocrats waxing about "doing farmwork is so noble" when they meant "overseeing the slave gangs who till the soil".
Supervising others doing the real work is the essential birthright of humanity.
"I can't just watch a man working. I have to get up, and walk about with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do, and supervise. It is my energetic nature." - Jerome K Jerome
Could you imagine mucking out horse stalls in a hoop skirt? Disney doesn't even force Mulan to do chores in a frilly dress, why should we have to?!
I mean that all used to be mens work because as a woman you would have been busy with washing, cleaning, cooking, mending clothes etc. Even making new clothing by hand. If you had time also brewing and making dairy products. Im sure some women did repair fences but that wasnt the norm. I lived on a very traditional farm at some point and the women would do a lot of indoor work while we repaired and build outside.
I don't know about yours but in a lot of traditional farms, animal care and feeding falls on women. Which involves mucking out stalls and wrangling cows for milking. Not dainty work at all.
Yeah sure animal care would still also be done by women but milking and feeding animals is different from wood work. I mean life in general was less dainty in the past. That whole persona is more 1950s housewife than 1850s - for the 90%. Try washing a whole households clothes on a washboard by hand. Thats physically demanding work still.
Not to mention, churning milk to get butter. That is some labor intensive work.
Depending on the man being injured. That scene in Little House where Charles gets injured just shows that when the men are injured everyone else has to move up a chore slot: pioneer women have to do the men’s work and the children have to do the woman’s tasks.
I wonder if we’re meant to understand “tend farm” as farm management, like hiring farmhands and keeping the books, rather than farm labor?
Not woman, but wife.
You got past the farmer before the daughter... though a roll in the hay aint something to shake your head at.
Why would anyone want to date a girl who couldn't wisecrack
And earn their own living
Both. Both is good.
No, playing the Zither is non-negotiable
As is shake a cocktail and wisecrack. It’s an impossible choice.
Gaston Duck-Nose used to say:
"Suzanne has good material, but she’ll never be able to make use of it. Suzanne has no sense of the modern world. What a wonder—lace pantaloons and a morning bath of milk. It’s old hat—fit for provincial firemen. No, I swear by the mustard gas that scorched my back by the ferryman’s house on the Yser—a modern prostitute, if she wants to be chic, must install a radio in her bedroom, learn to box, become as barbed as concertina wire, as fit as an eighteen-year-old boy, and be able to walk on her hands and dive into water from twenty meters. She should attend fascist rallies, talk about poison gases, and change lovers every week so as not to let them get used to being pigs. But mine, if you please, lies in a milk bath like a Norwegian salmon and dreams of a four-hectare farm. Vulgar fool—she’s got a brothel behind her."
(С) Hyperboloid of engineer Garin
That must be the first time I've seen The Hyperboloid referenced "in the wild".
Any female born after 1906 Cant sew, all they know is Charlston, Wise Crack, Drive a Car, Play Bridge And Lie
Baby, you can drive my car
Yes I’m gonna be a star
I want yuri of them
MAKE THEM KISS!!!!!!
https://imgur.com/a/xMMvBXy got inspired by this comment lol
I was just thinking that someone should draw them kissing so I'm glad someone already did it!
peak af
YURIII YAAAYYYYYYY!!!!! THANK UUUU!!!!
If she can drive a car from 1926 she already has one skill I don't have
Especially given the positions of the accelerator, brake and clutch weren't standardised yet...
And some of them had double clutch transmissions where you have to press the clutch, shift to neutral, release the clutch, use the throttle, press the clutch again and then shift into gear. And there were no gauges to tell you your rpms, so you had to know when it was time to shift based on sound and feel.
My husband has a car from 1926. I have no interest in learning how to drive it.
Idk but this post makes me like flappers even more
"Earn my own living" damn girl, thats all you had to say. Im in
Get you a girl that can be both.
Every generation panics when norms start shifting
Those two should date
I love how they wrote this and expected people to choose the woman who spends all day working a vegetable garden rather than the woman with a good sense of humor, interesting hobbies, and a second salary.
r/gatekeepingyuri
on that: https://www.reddit.com/r/GatekeepingYuri/comments/144z4wm/finally\_got\_around\_to\_do\_this\_one/ https://www.reddit.com/r/GatekeepingYuri/comments/10kmo2m/its\_probably\_been\_done\_already\_but\_i\_found\_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/GatekeepingYuri/comments/1gbe80k/teaching\_ms\_zither\_the\_charleston/
women born after 1893:
Considering that the great depression and WWII followed shortly after, you could argue that the West had indeed fallen.
If you don't play the zither, don't come hither.
If she can’t wise crack then I don’t want her 😤
Both are equally valid as long as it's by their own volition.
The one on the right looks a lot more happier.
I do like they say doctor but would never let a woman actually be a doctor.
I'll take door number two please.
'Earn my own living.'
Oh no, she is not completely submissive and you can't abuse her as much as you want because she has nowehre else ot go now.
off topic but late 20s women fashion is so peak
Need me a girl who can Charleston
where is the yuri
There is nothing hotter than a gal that can play bridge.
And they're both way out of my league
They are girlfriends.
The more things change the more they stay the same
Upgrades, people, upgrades!
All day every day therapist, mother, maid, nymph then a virgin, nurse then a servant, just an appendage, live to attend him so that he never lifts a finger. 🎶
It was the norm for a significant population of women to not get married and have children. Because giving birth still yielded a good chance of death. Everything changed post baby-boom.
I can’t figure out the watermark. Frank bahley? Hank behlay?
Who up playing they zither?
Your girl doesn't even play the zither
Im headcannoning these two as a lesbian couple
I do not believe for a second that a woman who can afford a dress with that much volume has the skills to tend a farm
If my girl can’t wise crack I don’t even want her
Now kiss
Shut up Elon!
Which one certainly can can-can
O it says sew not jew
I thought the one on the left said she could jew at first glance
Before my eyes focused, I thought the person on the right was a dude. Like yeah the wife has to be productive and the dude gets leisure, what’s the meme?
Nothing ever changes.