{"id":104368,"date":"2016-04-21T13:08:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T13:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/21\/thedevilspanties-spart117mc-viridieanfey\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T11:37:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T11:37:20","slug":"thedevilspanties-spart117mc-viridieanfey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/21\/thedevilspanties-spart117mc-viridieanfey\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-104368 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/21\/thedevilspanties-spart117mc-viridieanfey\/attachment\/104369\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_njhiq2jrok1rab8xmo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_njhiq2jrok1rab8xmo1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_njhiq2jrok1rab8xmo1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thedevilspanties.tumblr.com\/post\/111443873798\" target=\"_blank\">thedevilspanties<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/spart117mc.tumblr.com\/post\/111245867193\" target=\"_blank\">spart117mc<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/viridieanfey.tumblr.com\/post\/111099167419\" target=\"_blank\">viridieanfey<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/romanimp.tumblr.com\/post\/110563973825\" target=\"_blank\">romanimp<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/beatnikdaddio.tumblr.com\/post\/110515741033\" target=\"_blank\">beatnikdaddio<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>admiring the stockings. 1940\u2019s.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>#<a href=\"http:\/\/miss-nerdgasmz.tumblr.com\/tagged\/%5B40s%20commercial%20announcer%20voice%5D%20what's%20better%20than%20this?%20gals%20being%20pals\" target=\"_blank\">[40S COMMERCIAL ANNOUNCER VOICE] WHAT\u2019S BETTER THAN THIS? GALS BEING PALS<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fun fact: Though being gay in the 40s sucked, being gay in the military was easier, and pretty common. There were apparently, at one point in time time so many lesbians in the military that when they tried to crack down on it, the girls wrote back and said \u201cLook I can give you the names, but you\u2019ll lose some of your best officers, and half your nurses and secretaries.\u201d And they pretty much shut up about it unless you were especially bad at subtlety. (Source: Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers. A good source for gay history from 1900s onwards.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Sergeant Phelps worked for General Eisenhower. Four decades after Eisenhower had defeated the Axis powers, Phelps recalled an extraordinary event. One day the general told her, \u201cI\u2019m giving you an order to ferret those lesbians out.\u2019 We\u2019re going to get rid of them.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cI looked at him and then I looked at his secretary. who was standing next to me, and I said, \u2018Well, sir, if the general pleases, sir, I\u2019ll be happy to do this investigation for you. But you have to know that the first name on the list will be mine.\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cAnd he kind of was taken aback a bit. And then this woman standing next to me said, \u2018Sir, if the general pleases, you must be aware that Sergeant Phelps\u2019s name may be second, but mine will be first.\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThen I looked at him, and I said, \u2018Sir, you\u2019re right. They\u2019re lesbians in the WAC battalion. And if the general is prepared to replace all the file clerks, all the section commanders, all of the drivers\u2014every woman in the WAC detachment\u2014and there were about nine hundred and eighty something of us\u2014then I\u2019ll be happy to make the list. But I think the general should be aware that among those women are the most highly decorated women in the war. There have been no cases of illegal pregnancies. There have been no cases of AWOL. There have been no cases of misconduct. And as a matter of fact, every six months since we\u2019ve been here, sir, the general has awarded us a commendation for meritorious service.\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cAnd he said, \u2018Forget the order.\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><b>&#8211; The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019ve reblogged this before but it didn\u2019t have these comments and HOLY HOT DAMN DID IT NEED THEM.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>thedevilspanties: spart117mc: viridieanfey: romanimp: beatnikdaddio: admiring the stockings. 1940\u2019s. #[40S COMMERCIAL ANNOUNCER VOICE] WHAT\u2019S BETTER THAN THIS? GALS BEING PALS Fun fact: Though being gay in the 40s sucked, being gay in the military was easier, and pretty common. There were apparently, at one point in time time so many lesbians in the military that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/21\/thedevilspanties-spart117mc-viridieanfey\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[44,261,262,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104370,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104368\/revisions\/104370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}