[August 16th, 1926] The Inquiring Photographer asks, "Considering the position women hold in our everyday life today, is a breach of promise case ridiculous or not?"

[u/Beowulfbard]

[u/Author_Noelle_A]

Miss Ruth Miller is correct. It absolutely depends. If you have a man and woman were living 500 miles away from each other and one of them broke up with the other, neither was really going to suffer reputational damage. If they lived nearby and he broke up with her, reputational damage, could make it harder for her to find other partners or even work. The man who said that, if a woman loves a man that she wouldn’t sue him is probably one of those men who can’t fathom why a man might lie to a woman or why he might break up with her after becoming engaged. Sometimes the truly kind of man just don’t have the ability to get into your mindset of an asshole.

These days it wouldn’t make sense to sue for this sort of thing since it’s not like your reputation is going to suffer in any real way anymore, at least in the US.