“a Man” v. The Tender Sex: A Gender Bending Voyage In The Typewriter's Collage Time Machine

The Typewriter's Collage travels to 1903 via real stories from the era’s Chicago Tribune. A world where men aren’t men, women aren’t women—and only an eminent French sociologist can explain it to us.

Once again, let us step into The Typewriter’s Collage Time Machine. Our erstwhile Time Machine Commander (i.e., me) will take us through an electrifing excursion of etiquette, fraught with formidable faux pas (pronounced here in its plural form with “pas” concluding aurally with the sound of Zed rather than Ess), and infused with indelicate idiosyncrasi…