Back to B.C. by Johnny Hart for November 05, 2018

Beat the daylights out of their clothes ?

I think that’s the early version of a fabric softener?

All that practice clobbering snakes would have come in handy.

Ah! The hidden agenda

Wait, why can’t she hit the men again? I, uhhhh…I’m asking for a friend.

Who said you can’t hit men? Men??

Being serious for a minute, I watched rural women in Korea in the 1970s washing clothing exactly that way. Very labor intensive, difficult, takes many hours and was very hard on the clothing. And saw rural women in IndoChina(I was there in 1969 and 1970. Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos. All the same but at the same time, very different do the same thing, abet in a much warmer climate and in what appeared to be a much dirtier river

#MeToo

She’s a misandrist. (Yeah, I looked it up).

and thus ironing started

Behold! The world’s first fabric softener…

The washing machine and dryers were good for women and later men too.