Mar 29, 2011
Anti-Flirt Club, 1923
From the original caption:
The club is composed of young women and girls who have been embarrassed by men in automobiles and on street corners.
(via Shorpy, Black and WTF)
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I’m curious, what sort of club do you join if you are embarrassed by seeing men in automobiles picking their noses? Because that should be a club.
This one.
Be careful what you wish for, ma’am….
I may be wrong but isn’t that a hint of a flirty smile on her face?
I wouldn’t think flirting would have been a problem for her…
At first glance I thought it was “Anti-Flirting” like “the opposite of flirting.” Kind of like, “Anti-Christ” and she was the president!
The holder makes the sign redundant.
Ha! Bravo! My thought exactly.
Replace “embarrassed” with “ignored” and I think you’ll have a more accurate description of the club’s membership.
So, wait, the women in the anti-flirt club are only against flirting because it never happens to them? Somehow that logic doesn’t wash to me. Few things feel quite as demeaning as getting leered at and hollered at, completely uninvited, regarding one’s body. Saying that women–even homely ones–really secretly like this if only it would happen to them more is pretty callously dismissing what is truly a frustrating, and even frightening, problem for many, many women.
Being objectified by some random dude in a taxi is not a compliment, even to someone who is not conventionally beautiful.
It was meant to be funny. First of all, does anyone actually think that flirting consists of leering and making lewd comments? Secondly, am I really supposed to take someone waving an “Anti-Flirt Club” banner seriously?
First of all, define Flirt… – “to court triflingly or act amorously without serious intentions; play at love; coquet.”
Nowhere will you find a proper definition of flirt that involves what you speak of, that my dear is HARASSMENT. Flirting is giving subtle hints of enjoyment in regards to the company of an individual. You flirt with someone you like, it’s a way of slowly letting them know you are attracted. Yelling out is the opposite of flirting in regards to letting one know of attraction.
This is fantastic! It’s always so crazy when guys make fools of themselves at corners! ha! :)
The first rule of anti-flirt club is you talk about anti-flirt club.
It seems like the word “flirt” in 1923 is what we would recognize today as “sexual harassment”
I’m also guessing “club” was a serious thing adults could join, as opposed to evoking images of kids in a treehouse with slingshots