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# 2025-03-21 - Flappers, Flippers, Masculine Women, and Feminine Men |
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From an article about flappers in the Smithsonian Magazine: |
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> Unlike their mothers and grandmothers, flappers tended to go to |
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> high school and even college, and they devoured new books featuring |
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> confident, fun-loving adolescent heroines who hiked and camped and |
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> solved mysteries. Flappers biked, played golf and tennis, and |
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> strove to emulate the flat-chested and hipless physiques of the |
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> adolescent boys whose freedom and lack of domestic responsibilities |
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> they envied. |
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> ... a number of impressively talented women were flappers, |
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> including the novelist and screenwriter Anita Loos, the satirist |
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> Dorothy Parker and the entertainer Josephine Baker, who went on to |
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> become a leading civil rights activist. |
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From: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/flappers-took-country-storm-ever-g… |
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Fascinating! I read the wikipedia article on flappers, and queried |
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mainstream search engines. I found zilch, nothing, nada about |
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flapper reading habits, reading lists, authors, etc. I love finding |
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whole new categories of literature that the Internet doesn't seem to |
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know about yet. Expanding my search to "Jazz Age", "tomboy", and |
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1920s, i got a few hits, listed below. |
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Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos |
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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The Plastic Age by Percy Marks |
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Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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The same article had an excerpt from a song about gender. |
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## Masculine Women, Feminine Men (1926) |
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by Edgar Leslie & James V. Monaco |
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Hey Hey women are going mad, today |
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Hey Hey fellers are just as bad, I'll say |
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Go anywhere, just stand and stare |
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You'll say they're bugs when you look at the clothes they wear |
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Masculine Women Feminine Men |
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which is the rooster which is the hen |
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It's hard to tell 'em apart today |
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And SAY... |
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Sister is busy learning to shave |
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Brother just loves his permanent wave |
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It's hard to tell 'em apart today |
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HEY HEY |
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Girls were girls and boys were boys when i was a tot, |
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Now we don't know who is who or even what's what |
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Knickers and trousers baggy and wide, |
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Nobody knows who's walking inside |
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Those Masculine Women Feminine Men |
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Masculine Women Feminine Men |
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Which is the rooster which is the hen |
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It's hard to tell 'em apart today |
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And SAY... |
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Auntie is smoking, rolling her own, |
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Uncle is always buying cologne |
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It's hard to tell 'em apart today |
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HEY HEY |
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You go and give your girl a kiss in the hall |
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But instead you find you're kissing her brother Paul |
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Mama's got a sweater up to her chin, |
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Papa's got a girtle holding him in |
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Those Masculine Women Feminine Men |
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Stop, Look, Listen and you'll agree... with me |
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Things are not what they used to be... you'll see |
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You say hello to Uncle Joe, |
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Then look again and you find it's your Aunti Flo |
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Masculine Women Feminine Men |
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Which is the rooster which is the hen |
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It's hard to tell 'em apart today |
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And SAY... |
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Wifey is playing billiards and pool, |
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Hubby is dressing kiddies for school |
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It's hard to tell 'em apart today |
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HEY HEY |
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Ever since the Prince of Wales in dresses was seen, |
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What does he intend to be the King or the Queen |
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Grandmother buys those tailor-made clothes |
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Grandfather tries to smell like a rose |
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Those Masculine Women Feminine Men |
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Listen on archive.org |
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Queer Music Heritage has sheet music and other recordings |
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See also: |
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Lost Girls: The Invention of the Flapper by Linda Simon |
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Where All Good Flappers Go: Essential Stories of the Jazz Age |
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