This news story on Slate a few days ago caught my eye. I tend to read any headline with postcard in the title! Its about a tradition of women proposing during leap year. At first I wasn't sure if it was just on Feb. 29th, but it seems to be about the whole year. Sure made me glad I was a woman of these times, I just found some of the Slate cartoons to be sad and infuriating in the way they made women appear to be trapping and tricking unsuspecting men into marriage. What do you think?
Oh! I dont know how I feel about these postcards. So interesting, but some of these are actually pretty horrid and demeaning for both genders. I suppose they were great reminders for people to stick to social norms...
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