Canadian Bacon Barbie

Today I went to the Club Nova thrift store on my way home from the coffee shop and, for once, actually found something cool:

I also put my little Christmas tree up:

I came across this recently and thought it was kind of cool… I never pictured Aristotle hanging out in cut off jean shorts, jumping into a pool of water. Kind of changes my image of him.

Or, a reason why women aren’t properly equipped for standing.

Quoted from Louis Dembitz Brandeis’ opinion supporting the constitutionality of a 10 hour workday for women, circa 1908, quoting a Dr. Ely Van Der Warker:

“Woman is badly constructed for the purposes of standing eight or ten hours upon her feet. I do not intend to bring into evidence the peculiar position and nature of the organs contained in the pelvis, but to call attention to the peculiar construction of the knee and the shallowness of the pelvis, and the delicate nature of the foot as part of a sustaining column. The knee joint of woman is a sexual characteristic. Viewed in front and extended, the joint in but a slight degree interrupts the gradual taper of the thigh into the leg. Viewed in a semi-flexed position, the joint forms a smooth ovate spheroid. The reason of this lies in the smallness of the patella in front, and the narrowness of the articular surface of the tibia and femur, and which in man form the lateral prominences, and thus is much more perfect as a sustaining column than that of woman. The muscles which keep the body fixed upon the thighs in the erect position labor under the disadvantage of shortness of purchase, owing to short distance, compared to that of men, between the crest of the ilium and the greater trochanter of the femur, thus giving to man a much larger purchase in the leverage existing between the trunk and the extremities. Comparatively, the foot is less able to sustain weight than that of man, owing to its shortness and the more delicate formation of the tarsus and metatarsus.”

Who knew that knees were a sexual characteristic? No wonder people had to wear long skirts. It wasn’t just about the ankles, people!!!