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Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

Flying Off the Handle

Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

History, Society & Culture

4.58.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

There's a lot to get upset about in life, but these two stories are perfect proof that sometimes one era's complaint is another's curiosity.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to AirNManky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

0:08.7

and Mild.

0:13.0

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

0:16.3

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

0:22.2

just waiting for us to explore.

0:25.4

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

0:36.8

The invention caused outrage.

0:39.3

People regarded the new technology as the moral downfall of society, and as you might

0:43.8

imagine, made it a hot topic for conversation.

0:46.9

Doctors warned the apparatus had catastrophic events for women and girls.

0:51.8

Everything you see were thought to be frail, referred to as the angel of the household,

0:56.6

their jobs were to keep house and raise children, and nothing more.

1:01.7

The new device was too hard on their dainty feminine skeletons.

1:05.6

Their feet would become deformed, forcing them to walk in an odd non-feminine plunging

1:10.4

motion.

1:11.4

The bones in their fingers would curl into a claw.

1:14.8

Even their facial features weren't immune.

1:17.1

Their mouths would contort into a grimace, and their eyes would bulge from their sockets.

1:21.8

With continued use, a woman's body would become more masculine, that is, if she even survived

1:26.9

it all.

1:28.4

Doctors told the public that a woman's reproductive system severely limited her from doing anything

1:33.1

more manly, and this contraption might cause her finite femininity and energy to become

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