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in george soper’s 1907 account of tracing a small but perplexing typhoid outbreak back to one person, a cook named mary mallon (later dubbed “typhoid mary” by the press), he pauses to note that she was blond, blue-eyed and “had a good figure, and might have been called athletic had she not been a little too heavy”
christ, dude
is there literally nothing a woman can do where she won’t be reduced to her appearance
you’d think we could at the very least be a vector for deadly diseases without some dude turning it into a public referendum of how bangable we are
“her story is a fascinating look at a key moment in the history of medical science, as well as the intersection of classism, sexism, and xenophobia in turn-of-the-century american society. also she was like, a 6.”
(idiopathicsmile)
christ, dude
is there literally nothing a woman can do where she won’t be reduced to her appearance
you’d think we could at the very least be a vector for deadly diseases without some dude turning it into a public referendum of how bangable we are
“her story is a fascinating look at a key moment in the history of medical science, as well as the intersection of classism, sexism, and xenophobia in turn-of-the-century american society. also she was like, a 6.”
(idiopathicsmile)