“THIRD SEX”
MODERN GIRL’S EVOLUTION. •CIVILISATION AND CANCER ~~ LONDON. Dr. Hastings Gilford, addressing the Royal Instilulte of Public Health, said that civilisation was one of the 'causes of cancer. They should get back to Nature. The Australian, African and American aboriginals, despite brutal mismangaement at birth, and exposure to the sun, and the excessive use of alcohol and tobacco, remained almost free from cancer. Modern man’s 'failure to exercise his digestive organs was responsible for many diseases. Modern conditions, he continued, had evolved a third sex, namely the active, game-loving, short-haired girl, with narrow lips and wearing skirts like kilts. She was altogether a capable type, being smaller and lither, while her more ornamental figure had helped her to oust men from their occupations. He deplored the fact of women dreading childbirth more than a surgical operation. This women’s 'strike against reproductions was more disastrous than any man’s strike
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2314, 5 December 1925, Page 15
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