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Hipster ca. 1900 (imgur.com)

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[–][deleted] 36 points37 points ago

This is a picture of Minnie Woolsey, who was believed to have suffered from microcephalic primordial dwarfism. She is best known for her table dance in Tod Browning's excellent Freaks.

[–]P_R_Deltoid 17 points18 points ago

ONE OF US, ONE OF US

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points ago

My family does this at holiday meals when someone is new at the table. I'm not kidding.

[–]KabelGuy 3 points4 points ago

Doesn't everyone's family do this? :D

[–]ethanwc 1 point2 points ago

I thought we were the only ones.

We watch it every Halloween.

[–]therealdohr 5 points6 points ago

gooble gobble!

[–]Linfinity8 2 points3 points ago

We accept her, we accept her!

[–]BreakingNecks 2 points3 points ago

And that brings us to the golden age of video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFM140rju4k

[–]buffettsgirl16 7 points8 points ago

That movie, while interesting, creates so many mixed emotions. I hate to see those people victimized like that, but at the same thing, you do learn a lot about how human rights and respect have changed.

[–]sicsemperTrex 2 points3 points ago

It is definitely the kind of movie you could not make today. The climate for ignorance and intolerance for physically and mentally disabled people was permissive enough for that kind of movie. Ironically, while they--the "Freaks"--are portrayed as a tight knit even familial group at the circus, they are also made menacing at the climax of the film too. Take a look at this analysis of the film here

[–]Wilwheatonfan87 12 points13 points ago

I don't believe the film was made to exploit the circus "freaks" but moreso to paint them as people who are still human in every way, despite how they look or what they do.

and to be fair on the climax, they were attacking two people who tried to murder their own in a plot to steal his money.

[–]Johnzsmith 1 point2 points ago

I have to agree with you. I think this film painted them in much better light than most people not familiar with the film think. I also think that perhaps that is the main reason this film was banned for so many years in so many places.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points ago

The climate wasn't actually that permissive. Freaks was banned for a long time, and was edited so much that parts of it are now lost. It was received so poorly that it essentially ended Tod Browning's career.

I don't see the film as ignorant or intolerant, though. The eponymous "freaks" are presented as good and honorable. The "normal" characters are totally cool with them. Only the antagonists treat them badly. I don't think this is ironic. Tod Browning traveled with a circus earlier in his life, and his experiences influenced the story and the characterizations.

[–]sicsemperTrex 0 points1 point ago

I meant that people were more inclined to ostracize the disabled back then, and Tod Browning seized on that sensibility and made a movie that depicts them in a good, human light. To his credit, it is a really inventing, engaging and profound premise. When I said you couldn't make a movie like that today, I meant because there is now such a widespread, mainstream acceptance and embrace of the disabled, that portraying them as "freaks" is, well, on par with a minstrel show I think.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

Okay, I guess I pretty much agree with you, then.

Freaks is certainly an artifact of its time. Not only have cultural norms changed substantially, there are laws against "freak shows" displaying actual human deformities in some states. Nowadays, that niche is instead filled by sideshow performers a la The Enigma.

[–]sicsemperTrex 1 point2 points ago

"Artifact" is probably the best way to describe it. I wonder what movies and things now would be looked upon with the same curiosity one hundred years from now.

[–]buffettsgirl16 0 points1 point ago

That is an excellent analysis. I think one of the most amazing scenes in there is Prince R (I can't recall how to spell his name) is rolling the cigarette with his tongue. It is definitely a scene where the person with the "disability" was given more focus than the "normal" person.

Acceptance is an interesting thing - I had never considered the chant in that way. It is definitely a film worthy of consideration.

[–]SasparillaTango 0 points1 point ago

I thought it was porgeria

[–]kevka 1 point2 points ago

No, progeria is rapid aging.

[–]Vintagejosh 0 points1 point ago

I cancelled my DVD subscription to Netflix and this was the next movie I would have recieved. I am still kicking myself that I could not wait a little longer.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points ago

You should do whatever you have to to see Freaks. It's a great film, and a fascinating piece of film history, too. There are quite a number of real "human oddities" featured in the movie, several with large roles. I suspect the film represents the only existing footage of many of them... certainly the only footage available to the general public, anyway.

[–]Vark675 2 points3 points ago

http://archive.org/details/freaks1932

Not great quality, but it seems to be the whole thing.

[–]Vintagejosh 1 point2 points ago

Thank you. You shall be remembered as procurer of happiness. May that one thing you wanted be yours.

[–]Vark675 0 points1 point ago

Just a heads up, Frozo the Clown is a pimp.

[–]lafayette0508 0 points1 point ago

Hey! She's in a postsecret from this week: here.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

Not to be a dick, but I'm pretty sure that's Betty Green, aka The Stork Woman. Betty Green did also use the moniker "Koo-Koo the Bird Girl," though, and also appeared in Freaks.

[–]lafayette0508 1 point2 points ago*

Oh ok. Sorry for the misinformation, folks! I'm not sure why you'd think this is being a dick. (unless you were trying to be.) They look very similar in these pictures and have the same name - it's not so far fetched that I'd think they were the same person, and correcting me isn't a big deal.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

No, I wasn't trying to be! I recognize that pedantry can be irritating and feel apologetic when I can't help but correct someone.

[–]lafayette0508 1 point2 points ago

Ok then :-) I think we're good!

[–]silent_p 0 points1 point ago

Is that Uncle Phil (from Fresh Prince of Bel Air)'s head on some sort of caterpillar body?

[–]rhoula 0 points1 point ago

It's a Girl, It's a Girl

[–]msingerman 1 point2 points ago

See? Obviously a total hipster.

That word has no meaning anymore.

[–]duke_lucas 18 points19 points ago

is that rachel dratch?!

[–]SolomonGomes 8 points9 points ago

Koo Koo the bird girl looks like a hot chick.

[–]aceoftrachs 5 points6 points ago

Just don't ruffle her feathers.

[–]JorgeCS 6 points7 points ago

Relevant.

[–]vinsite 3 points4 points ago

My long lost sister!!

[–]SillyWeaselfish 3 points4 points ago

One of us! One of us! Gooble-gobble, gooble-gobble!

[–]puce_pachyderm 2 points3 points ago

Is it just me or does it seem that the Looney Tunes 'the Dodo Bird' character was based off of this woman's costume? here's the best quality video i could find, sorry about the bad music over top of it.

[–]SpaceManDug 1 point2 points ago

I thought the music made it interesting.

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[–]bsonk 0 points1 point ago

I love the old-timey casual racism, or more like "othering" in Porky in Wackyland. He flies to "darkest Africa" where all the people are minstrel show caricatures, and everything is just plain wacky. It displays Africa as a different world full of craziness. I think it might have been an attempt to satirize those attitudes by playing them over the top, but it's been so long that Poe's Law has come into effect and the satire isn't as distinguishable.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

I had no idea "Dough for the Do-Do" was a remake..!

[–]Malhavik 2 points3 points ago

Going to have to enable adblock for imgur again. Regular ads are fine but the video shit and sounds can fuck off.

[–]kabukistar 2 points3 points ago

The meaning of "Hipster" on Reddit has changed to pretty much "anybody who looks different."

[–]missmkay 1 point2 points ago

She did the duckface before it was cool.

[–]goodtimekid 1 point2 points ago

I live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. If I saw her walk down the street this afternoon, I would not bat an eyelid.

[–]Resident-DJ 1 point2 points ago

Skrillex?

[–]tide88 1 point2 points ago

Rachel Dratch is immortal.

[–]clrs 1 point2 points ago

Christian Stadil..... is that you??

[–]air21uru 0 points1 point ago

the bird GIRL? i thought that was dwights geandfather or something.

[–]Mattistehwinnar 0 points1 point ago

Hipster ca. 2012

[–]sarpedonx 0 points1 point ago

Island of Dr. Moreau?

[–]marxychick1[!] 0 points1 point ago

"It's supposed to be a chicken... but it's also a kid. It's a chicken kid."

[–]mbannonb 0 points1 point ago

"Heavens to murgatroid!"

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GZVW3aDb9u4/TtQygBau-zI/AAAAAAAAB5k/pImcrpPXM6k/s1600/Return+3.jpg

Was that wrong to say/post that?

[–]NeoScout 0 points1 point ago

nice specimen

[–]warmpita 0 points1 point ago

Looks like a Kappa.

[–]mysecondaccount02 0 points1 point ago

Karasuma?

[–]meridiem 0 points1 point ago

Sonny Moore Senior

[–]boudy077 0 points1 point ago

relevant

[–]marketinequality 0 points1 point ago

r/WTF is leaking.

[–]Tearabite 0 points1 point ago

1900s Skrillex!!!!

[–]mustardjones 0 points1 point ago

I downloaded this picture and saved the file as "Ostrich Boy is Sad".

[–]Schroedingers_gif 1 point2 points ago

You'll find it months from now and be horribly confused.

[–]HappyDays7 1 point2 points ago

Koo Koo the bird girl. It's a chick.

[–]trololbaus[S] 0 points1 point ago

:notbad:

[–]muyrec 0 points1 point ago

Skrillex's great grandfather.

[–]ZePikachu 0 points1 point ago

My first thought was "That looks like that Skrillex kid...."

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[–]kevka 0 points1 point ago

Wheres?

[–]Skalmano -1 points0 points ago

Skrillex great-grandfather

[–]Tdhutchi -1 points0 points ago

Cannot believe those fucking Vibram shoes have been around this long.

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