@PugJesusM to HistoryPornEnglish • 1 year agoLe Monocle, French lesbian bar, Paris, 1932imagemessage-square8arrow-up1140arrow-down13
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minus-squarePugJesusMlinkfedilink19•edit-21 year agoIt was called ‘Le Monocle’ because it was the fashion, at the time, for lesbians to wear a monocle to subtly signal their sexual preferences when more overt displays would have been inadvisable in public. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Monocle
minus-square@WhiteOakBayoulinkEnglish14•1 year agoI like that wearing a monocle isn’t considered overt then
minus-squareRayspektlinkfedilink7•edit-21 year ago“Quick! I need to look unsuspicious! Better put on my normie-monocle!” Addendum: Maybe BI-noculars were too sexually implying.
minus-squareChariotwheellinkfedilink5•1 year ago“Hey you! Are you a lesbian?” “N-no.” [puts on second monocle]
It was called ‘Le Monocle’ because it was the fashion, at the time, for lesbians to wear a monocle to subtly signal their sexual preferences when more overt displays would have been inadvisable in public.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Monocle
I like that wearing a monocle isn’t considered overt then
“Quick! I need to look unsuspicious! Better put on my normie-monocle!”
Addendum: Maybe BI-noculars were too sexually implying.
lmao
“Hey you! Are you a lesbian?”
“N-no.” [puts on second monocle]