“The masculine dress,” she repeated, as if not quite comprehending my meaning. “Do you mean my dress?”

“Why, yes; it is a man’s dress I suppose, is it not?”

“Why any more than a woman’s?” she answered rather blankly. “Ah, yes, I actually forgot for a moment whom I was talking to. I see; so it was considered a man’s dress in your day, when the women masqueraded as mermaids. You may think me stupid not to catch your idea more quickly, but I told you I was dull at history. It is now two full generations since women as well as men have worn this dress, and the idea of associating it with men more than women would occur to no one but a professor of history. It strikes us merely as the only natural and convenient solution of the dress necessity, which is essentially the same for both sexes, since their bodily conformation is on the same general lines.”

Edward Bellamy’s Equality (1897)

Gamers are more conservative than the fucking 19th century settler socialists 💀