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What those vintage vamps knew all too well was that smacking a man’s face is the best way to put him in his place–and not just on the big screen. Movie queens were legendary face slappers, but it wasn’t only the glam goddesses doing the slapping back when. Whether you were a movie queen or a shop girl, you didn’t take guff from the guys. And if a fellow tried to get fresh, you yanked off your glove, hauled off and stung him across the kisser. Face slapping was the proper lady’s first line of defense against ungentlemanly behavior.
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Unfortunately, face slapping will probably go the way of opera gloves, martini lunches and beefsteak without guilt. And that’s a damned shame, ladies. For if the masses of men knew that a slip of the tongue meant an abrupt comeuppance via one or another feminine, manicured hand, you better believe they’d keep their dirty thoughts, sarcastic asides and inopportune remarks to themselves. That goes double for your own man of the house.
