In researching the tradition of leap year marriage proposals, Parkin discovered a vast quantity of cartoonish postcards depicting proposing women as fugly harridans. Postcards? purpose in early-20th-century America fell somewhere between that of text messages and that of image macros?a way to convey practical information and share jokes back when mail was delivered twice a day. One of the most popular leap-year memes depicted proposing women as fat, unattractive, and domineering?sometimes even violent?and the men they proposed to as scrawny, weak, and emasculated. ?For example, one of the postcards shows a tiny man squeaking ?I surrender? as two gargantuan women, brandishing a total of four deadly weapons, pin him against the wall.
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