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I was halfway through reading an article about Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde doing it, and was like, “that’s quite a bit from so little to go on..”

But then I went looking for contemporary accounts of the meeting, and it looks like somebody then decided to write a little fanfic about it, so nevermind!

The Valley Spirit, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, January 25, 1882 

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The Canton Advocate, South Dakota, November 2, 1882

The question is raised if woman has not a better right to the trousers than has man. Indeed, the claim is made that they are hers by discovery and priority of use; that man is the usurper of an advantage her first perceived by imitation.

 It will be a crushing blow to the pride of the lords of creation to learn that they are parading in a cast-off fashion of despised woman..