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[ass_guardian]

*there's a pair of boys lounging in one of camp's Convenient Clearings with a few textbooks. Even if it's summer camp, it's study time for certain fanboy superheroes!*

Woah, did you know corsets actually broke people's ribs? No wonder a lot of clothes are so baggy these days.

((Please not that despite any icons, Billy and Teddy are currently in

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[runningmouth]

Doesn't that make it hard to, you know, breathe?

[skrullfking]

And hard to eat too. Corsets constricted the digestive tract so much that women who wore them for years ended up with horrible problems.

[runningmouth]

Why do you know so much about the bathroom habits of old dead women?

[skrullfking]

*showing you the book he's reading, which happens to be about the history of women in medicine. and the... "interesting" medical treatments for womanhood*

It was in among my textbooks. It's actually pretty interesting to read, for a history book.

[runningmouth]

At least the world is getting slightly less stupid?

[skrullfking]

One step at a time. At least they aren't burning people as witches anymore just because they practiced herbal medicine or something.

[runningmouth]

No, now they're sending actual witches ... nevermind.

[skrullfking]

*moving ever so slightly closer to Billy at that statement* I don't think the stigma ever entirely faded but I'm so glad we're alive now and not centuries ago.

[runningmouth]

I guess it could always be worse. Let me see. *hand out for the book*

[skrullfking]

*hands over the book. all sorts of weird and/or horrible things inside*

[runningmouth]

*skimming*

...Tapeworms? Seriously?

[skrullfking]

Yeah. Gross, isn't it?

Or the daily doses of arsenic for a porcelain complexion.

[runningmouth]

Do those work? I mean, if the tapeworms get fat and they're inside you, wouldn't you still get fat? Although I guess if arsenic made you sick, you'd get pale.

[skrullfking]

I have no idea; the book doesn't say. Neither option is very healthy though.

[runningmouth]

Yeah, but it's doubly stupid if it doesn't work.

[skrullfking]

They used to do a lot of things that didn't work. Like bleeding people to remove infections. That usually made the illnesses worse.