Monday: Anything Goes

Flappers took us further than Suffragettes.

The marches, the protests, the demands for change were all a part of the fabric of the re-birth of the female of the species but it was the flapper portrayed in all her freedom in movies and other media that created an image for women of renewed possibilities. The women like Dorothy Parker, Anit Loos, and even Betty Boop became as powerful an icon for the modern woman as the Virgin Mary was to Catholics for centuries. Freedom came when a few brave women cut their hair, showed their legs, and created chaos of the mind.

Bless the women who chose to have fun on their own terms!

Anything Goes by Cole Porter where he refers to Dorothy Parker:

Good authors too who once knew better words,

Now only use four letter words

Writing prose, Anything Goes.

The world has gone mad today

And good's bad today,

And black's white today,

And day's night today,

When most guys today

That women prize today

Are just silly gigolos

And though I'm not a great romancer

I know that I'm bound to answer

When you propose,

Anything goes