It imperils eye, and one single human eye is worth more than all the dagger hat pins in the world. The hat pin risk is stupid, needless and reckless. People take greater risks every day of their lives from other things than hat pins. A Chicago Record Herald editorial that also ran in a 1910 copy of the Savannah Tribune (GA) argued: The magazine spotlights one newspaper’s sarcastic response to women thinking they can defend themselves: “We look for the new and imported Colt’s hatpin or the Smith and Wesson Quick-action Pin.” When I searched for the term in the newspaper archives online, I found plenty of other articles that could have come from today’s anti-gun op-eds. Members of the press helped push a panic on the matter. The story highlights that the Chicago Vice Commission earned the ire of women when they turned the blame for assaults on the victims and argued “that unchaperoned women should dress as modestly as possible—no painted cheeks or glimpse of ankle—in order to avoid unwanted attention.” When women objected to being told that they were to blame for attacks and promoted the idea of using self-defense by hatpin, that’s when the men decided that they had enough. The piece highlights that the press went wild with stories around of women using hatpins for self-defense, and men in government did not react well. If New York women will tolerate mashing, Kansas girls will not.” So, she pulled out her hatpin and “plunged it into the meat of the man’s arm.” He withdrew his arm, suddenly found plenty of space to move away before he jumped off at the next stop.īlaker apparently told the local paper, “I’ve heard about Broadway mashers and ‘L’ mashers, but I didn’t know Fifth Avenue had a particular brand of its own…. Needless to say, this was beyond inappropriate for the time, and the grab was not welcomed at all. Finally, he ended up squeezed next to her and then suddenly moved his arm to wrap around her lower back. She noticed that at every bump, he seemed to move closer.
When Leoti Blaker boarded a stage coach in NYC in 1903, an older man was next to her. Smithsonian ran a feature in April about the menace of women armed with hatpins. Before women got on board with the right to defend themselves with firearms, they turned to another tool which was widely available to them and could be easily concealed while still easily accessible – the hatpin.
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