Domesticating women: feminism via jokes

from Darwin Bell's flickr

An Onion article from yesterday gives a fake and funny history of the “domestication of the common woman” that exploits historic male dominance/female subjugation by likening it to the brutalities of how we raise animals. Click that link if you want to laugh (or at least smile a little). A highlight:

However, by the mid-20th century, a number of strange occurrences were reported: Spooked by the growing civil rights movement and loud protests taking place across the country, hundreds of women suddenly broke free from their restraints and, for the first time in millennia, ran wild, joining four-year colleges and professional workplaces along the way.

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