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Last year, we brought the world's attention to a "Naughty Leopard" costume for toddler girls at Walmart, and the product was eventually pulled from shelves. (To be honest, we were more concerned th...
They're starting early this year with the Unnecessarily Sexualized Halloween Costumes for 11 year old girls.
Indian Woman Forced To Marry Stray Dog After Family Claims She Has An Evil Spirit http://elitedaily.com/news/world/indian-woman-forced-marry-stray-dog/738858/ World • Emily Arata • Sep 3, 2014 - 3:43pm At 18-year-old Mangli Munda’s recent wedding, the bride wore red and the groom wore his own fur. Mangli was told by her elders that she had an evil spirit living within her. She married a stray dog called Sheru as a way to transfer the spirit to him. The ceremony was religious and legally non-binding, leaving Mangli free to meet an eligible bachelor. Villagers believe that Mangli will have a long and happy life, curse-free. Sheru, only briefly Mangli’s husband, has now become her pet. She will watch over him, ensuring that the evil spirit doesn’t harm him.
At least this one wasn't legally binding like they have been in the past.
Abolitionists Pre-Civil War, (1845) Who were these guys? Both praised and vilified by the press and public-now forgotten footnotes to our American History.
America’s first group of social protest folk singers performed throughout the country for more than fifty years.
The original members of the Hutchinson Family Singers were thirteen of the sixteen children of Jesse and Mary Hutchinson of Milford, New Hampshire. The eleven sons and two daughters made their singing debut in the late 1830s and at first sang sentimental, patriotic tunes celebrating the virtues of rural life. In 1842, however, they began to associate closely with the abolitionists, and soon their repertory of songs championed such reformist causes as temperance, women’s rights, and above all, the abolition of slavery.
Hutchinson Family Singers, 1845 Unknown Artist, American School Daguerreotype
In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Just a little fun fact ;P
The Debutante (1807) by Henry Fuseli; The woman, victim of male social conventions, is tied to the wall, made to sew and guarded by governesses.
The picture reflects Mary Wollstonecraft’s views in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, published in 1792.
