Judge — March 4, 1922 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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# "The Outgoing Male" - Judge Magazine, March 4, 1922 This cartoon satirizes changing gender dynamics in the early 1920s. The illustration shows a woman in fashionable attire examining or discarding a man's hat and clothing, suggesting the literal and figurative disposal of traditional male authority. The title "The Outgoing Male" plays on the phrase "outgoing" (departing/leaving) to mock the perceived decline of masculine dominance during this era. This reflects post-WWI anxieties about women's expanding rights—women had just gained voting rights (19th Amendment, 1920)—and their increasing economic and social independence. The woman's confident posture and the man's absent or diminished presence symbolize Judge magazine's satirical commentary on the "New Woman" and male anxiety about shifting power dynamics in American society.