Unfortunately, it's not as simple as all that. Dependant on your culture, the idea of a lady was a woman who never broke a sweat, never had any bodily functions that would be considered gross and only concerned herself with such things as tea parties and luncheons.
The world from which the word lady stemmed from meant that while being able to play a musical instrument and hold a conversation was considered important, being educated was considered a minus.
This is the traditional view of the word 'lady'.
Things have changed, obviously, but words can still hold connotations that we might not want them to.
So this picture is not rejecting the idea of a woman of the world who has the intelligence and grace to move through a crowd and never put a foot wrong. It is rejecting the idea of women being somehow delicate and unable to fend for themselves or do anything beyond being a help hand to a man.
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regna
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Date: 2016-05-30 10:23 pm (UTC)The world from which the word lady stemmed from meant that while being able to play a musical instrument and hold a conversation was considered important, being educated was considered a minus.
This is the traditional view of the word 'lady'.
Things have changed, obviously, but words can still hold connotations that we might not want them to.
So this picture is not rejecting the idea of a woman of the world who has the intelligence and grace to move through a crowd and never put a foot wrong. It is rejecting the idea of women being somehow delicate and unable to fend for themselves or do anything beyond being a help hand to a man.