Is he going to ride that Penny Farthing all the way to the artisinal pencil shop in Manhattan, or just to the nearest Wes Andersen diorama-rama?

So, it’s essentially an extremely dedicated cosplay?

At least she isn’t allowed to vote.

This is one of many reasons I roll my eyes at women who have raging ladyboners over Pride and Prejudice. Slightly earlier era, similar kinds of social, medical, and political issues that seem to get glossed over.

yeah like in the victorian days i would probably have been illiterate and living in a shack farming strawberries in the pacific northwest after a long boat journey that would have cost me my unborn child

No, I think you’re just, you know, in touch with reality. There is no other time period that would be better to live in, for women at least. It’s like that Louis CK joke - white men can go to ANY time period and be like “Woo fun!” but it will suck tremendously for literally everyone else.

Maybe I’m just not a romantic, but there’s no time period I’d rather live in than this one. Or maybe the future. But right now we have disposable tampons, birth control, antibiotics, air conditioning, divorce laws, safe abortions (where available) and surviveable c-sections. I’m a cynic and I bitch a lot about what…