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from February 28, 1923, titled "10 Girls Start War on Auto Invitation", laid out the problem: "Too many motorists are taking advantage of the precedent established during the war by offering to take young lady pedestrians in their cars, Miss Helen Brown, 639 Longfellow Street, declared yesterday."
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Brown, the secretary of the nascent Anti-Flirt club, warned that these men "don't all tender their invitations to save the girls a walk", and while there were "other varieties of flirts", motorists were the absolute worst.
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Other Anti-Flirt Clubs were started in New York, Chicago and other cities, but their focus was apparently on the "mashers" who went after women on the streets, succeeding in getting police to arrest some.
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Brown, along with the president—a Miss Alice Reighly of 1400 Harvard Street—made their plan of action known. On March 4, 1923, the first-ever Anti-Flirt Week (and only since) would commence.
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Don't let elderly men with an eye to a flirtation pat you on the shoulder and take a fatherly interest in you. Those are usually the kind who want to forget they are fathers.
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Don't ignore the man you are sure of while you flirt with another. When you return to the first one you may find him gone.
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and on street corners. The Anti-Flirt Club launched an "Anti-Flirt" week, which began on March 4, 1923.
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The club had a series of rules, which were intended as sound and serious advice. These were:
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Don't annex all the men you can get—by flirting with many, you may lose out on the one.
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Don't accept rides from flirting motorists—they don't invite you in to save you a walk.
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The Anti-Flirt Club. President Alice Reighly is posed at the head of the staircase.
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Don't go out with men you don't know—they may be married, and you may be in for a
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cake eater—the unpolished gold of a real man is worth more than the gloss of a
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Don't use your eyes for ogling—they were made for worthier purposes.
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Don't smile at flirtatious strangers—save them for people you know.
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Don't wink—a flutter of one eye may cause a tear in the other.
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Kramarae, Cheris; Treichler, Paula A.; Russo, Ann (1992).
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Amazons, Bluestockings and Crones: A Feminist Dictionary
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club
Washington, D.C.
received unwelcome attention
automobiles
flirt
hair-pulling match
dandified
lounge lizard
The Washington Post
Cat-calling
Male gaze
Wolf-whistling
"Catcalls and Military Strategy"
ISBN
9042015624
doi
10.2307/4019732
JSTOR
4019732
Amazons, Bluestockings and Crones: A Feminist Dictionary
ISBN
0044408633
"Washington girls have organized to protect selves from unwelcome advances"
"10 Girls Start War's on Auto Invitation"
the original
"Stop That Skirt-Chaser! The Movement to Outlaw Flirting in the 1920s"
The Atlantic
"'Anti-Flirt' Movement Once Put Street Harassers in the Clink"

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