The book, Unbecoming a lady : the forgotten sluts and shrews who shaped America by Therese Oneill is a whirlwind read! I finished it in two days and found it a page-turner, a can’t-put-downer (although I had to for one night) read that had me laughing at the casual and humorous style of the author but still providing nuggets of new information and topics to think about after I finished the book. The author provides a list of further reading on the topic as well as a generous “works consulted” section at the end of the book.
The women highlighted in this book lived during the turn of the 20th century. You know, when women were ladies that knew their place and were happy in it, not like the modern women lamented by many of the current manosphere podcast or YouTube creators. The women that want rights (including to vote), the ones that choose to have tattoos and facial piercings while making up their own minds and not being “led” by the men (hopefully only the one man she will be smart enough to snatch up and marry while in her late teens) in her life. The crazy ones, the ones that don’t know a good thing when he’s standing there right in front of her next to his restored 1977 Pontiac Firebird Grand Am (nicknamed “Good Girl”) with the “screaming chicken” hood art and his faithful dog, Sweetie. Continue reading “Well, that’s not very lady-like of you!”