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missfolly: ‘If men can take it, so can we’: Young GOP women take up cigars, spittoons, and endless rounds of poker to enjoy low-key ‘smoker’ on threshold of WWII’ “The Good Old Party in earlier times elicits images of a boys’ club, with men in suits spending their time shuffling cards and swapping the latest political stories in rooms engulfed in smoke and tobacco. But one young group of Republican women in Milford, Connecticut asked why the casual get-together – called a smoker – was exclusively for menfolk. And so, the Young Women’s Republican Club of Milford set to have a night like no other in May of 1941, indulging in traditionally male pastimes like cigar smoking, poker playing, and wrestling. The night confused the majority of Milford’s male population.”

missfolly:

‘If men can take it, so can we’: Young GOP women take up cigars, spittoons, and endless rounds of poker to enjoy low-key ‘smoker’ on threshold of WWII’

“The Good Old Party in earlier times elicits images of a boys’ club, with men in suits spending their time shuffling cards and swapping the latest political stories in rooms engulfed in smoke and tobacco.

But one young group of Republican women in Milford, Connecticut asked why the casual get-together – called a smoker – was exclusively for menfolk.

And so, the Young Women’s Republican Club of Milford set to have a night like no other in May of 1941, indulging in traditionally male pastimes like cigar smoking, poker playing, and wrestling. The night confused the majority of Milford’s male population.”