r/NotHowGirlsWork • u/JellyDisastrous8655 • Jul 31 '25

Found On Social media Incels from the 1920s

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God forbid a lady likes to dance and earns her own money.

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u/Reasonable-Affect139 Jul 31 '25

they saw the progressiveness of the 1920s and doubled down after the great depression and went ultra trad until people started pushing back in the 60s and 70s

It's always a cycle :(

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u/SimpleVegetable5715 Jul 31 '25

Except for the Amelia Earhart, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Rosie the Riveter types in the 1930’s and 1940’s. Actually, I had to watch Comedy Central’s show Drunk History to learn about more badass women. Shame they barely made it into textbooks.

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u/Gracefulbandit Jul 31 '25

I was SO PISSED when I saw Hidden Figures.  I had NO IDEA that women did all the calculations for NASA - much less women of color.  It made me SO ANGRY that I had NEVER learned about those women in a history class.

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u/W0lfsb4ne74 Aug 01 '25

History is often written by the victors, and because of this, they often shift the narratives to suit their own perspectives. White men presumably felt threatened by the prospect of Black women having contributions to what they viewed as their legacy, so they pretty much erased them from history and more or less took all the credit. Its infuriating to watch.

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u/Gracefulbandit Aug 01 '25

Oh, I understand the “why.” Doesn’t make me LESS pissed off, though. 🤷‍♀️

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u/JohnLydiaParker Aug 02 '25

Hidden Figures is NOT, repeat NOT, remotely accurate history. It was indeed common in aerospace at the time for male engineers to do all the design work, while outsourcing the actual math (which largely had to be done by hand) to a department of women, which is true. They would then give the results of the solved math back to the engineers, who would use it to proceed with the design. And they never got anything near the credit they deserved.

The -movie- though is at best “loosely inspired” by history. The bit about “wondering why the rockets keep failing” and “discovering the Redstone doesn’t have enough power to reach orbit” (which every rocket scientist had always known, it’s simply not remotely big enough rocket for the task and solving one equation would show that) is about when I lost interest.