Judge, 1919-06-28 · page 7 of 37
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# "The Mystery of Femininity" - Judge Magazine This page satirizes the unpredictability of women through rural, working-class male perspectives. The main story by Tom P. Morgan presents a backwoods Arkansas man recounting how a cow ate his hair while he slept—yet he assumed it was his wife getting revenge for an argument. The joke relies on the era's stereotype that women are inherently vengeful and illogical, so even a cow's actions seemed plausibly attributable to a wife's spite. The accompanying cartoons mock male anxieties about women's incomprehensibility: one depicts a timid chauffeur who quit because his boss "got nervous every time the car turned over"; another shows a pedestrian flattering an automobilist by claiming he enjoys the man's company. The overall theme treats women—and by extension, anyone perceived as "other"—as mysterious, unpredictable, and fundamentally unknowable. This reflects early 20th-century gender attitudes dismissing women as illogical or emotionally unstable.
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