Judge — October 23, 1920 — page 3: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page (October 23, 1920) This illustration by William Keep Starrett depicts a domestic scene with a humorous caption about marital conflict. A woman sits calmly in a chair while a man lies on the floor in apparent distress. The dialogue reads: "You mean to say he kissed you in spite of your threatening to scream? What did you do then?" "Oh, I just kept on threatening to scream." The satire targets early 20th-century attitudes about courtship and consent. The joke plays on the era's social convention where women were expected to resist male advances, while the cartoon suggests this woman continued "threatening" despite the man persisting—implying her protests were performative rather than genuine. It reflects period anxieties about changing gender dynamics and dating rituals in the 1920s.