Meet The Anti-Suffragettes Most people are at least somewhat familiar with a few of the more famous suffragettes and their various actions in securing the vote for women. Susan B. Anthony, for instance, was famously arrested and fined for illegally voting in 1872. She helped found the National American Woman Suffrage Association in the U.S. with her friend Elizabeth Cady-Stanton. In England, Emmeline Pankhurst and her militant feminist friends, the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, participated in hunger strikes and committed property damage in the name of women’s rights. But did you know that not only were the pro-suffrage activist groups in the minority, but that there were also prominent anti-suffragist women who formed activist groups in response to the suffragettes? You probably don’t, because this is another part of the history of women’s liberation that is intentionally hidden. In fact, some of the most vehement opposition to women voting came from women themselves. I find their reasoning to be prescient and compelling, which is why I believe it is intentionally obscured from history.
The decrease in number of children being born is probably iin itself a good thing, not a bad one. In this day and age the less of a population the better for the environment.
Also giving women the right to vote doesn't mean that they would have to participate in government or politics. Majority of women voters don't. So it's an erroneous conclusion to conclude that it would prevent women from attending to their families if needed.
The prejudiced notion against women voting is based on the belief that women are emotionally biased as opposed to being level headed and will vote based on their emotions and not their intellect.
In other words women don't have the same mental capacity for logical thought as men.
I've watched your interview on Jerm Warfare twice. I am in a college course (you should immediately hear that I am in an indoctrination camp for the New World Order). I have an assignment to review the movie, "Iron Jawed Angels."
The movie is a one sided depiction of the women's sufferage movement in the US. There is absolutely no indication that there were any funders who were not average women who desperately wanted free from the patriarchy. Of course most of my professors are outspoken about their support for more government in every corner of our lives and of course we must have UBI, which is described as free money that just pays our bills at the standard of living that we now hold, with no strings attached.
My assignment is to praise the advantages of "macro" social work, where governmental changes save the day over mezzo social work efforts that cannot do the heavy lifting of macro work.
Assignment - "In the film, the methods of the National Women’s Party (NWP) and the National American Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA) are contrasted. What does the film suggest about big (macro) change versus incremental (mezzo or micro) change? When might one type of change be better than the other?
2-3 pages, double spaced, no references."
Do you have any suggestions about smaller local changes that may have done more to help women who were not protected by their fathers, husbands, and brothers? I'm looking for a practical argument against stepping into the macro solution trap, where lobbiests change the structure of society to meet their corporate goals. I don't know enough about the time period or structure of the family and community to think like an anti-sufferagist who did not have the protection of the men in her world.
Thanks to Carmell for catching an error in this post which I have corrected :)
So good. Thank you for this article and can’t wait to read the next one!
The decrease in number of children being born is probably iin itself a good thing, not a bad one. In this day and age the less of a population the better for the environment.
Also giving women the right to vote doesn't mean that they would have to participate in government or politics. Majority of women voters don't. So it's an erroneous conclusion to conclude that it would prevent women from attending to their families if needed.
The prejudiced notion against women voting is based on the belief that women are emotionally biased as opposed to being level headed and will vote based on their emotions and not their intellect.
In other words women don't have the same mental capacity for logical thought as men.
Which I find questionable.
Hi Rachel,
I've watched your interview on Jerm Warfare twice. I am in a college course (you should immediately hear that I am in an indoctrination camp for the New World Order). I have an assignment to review the movie, "Iron Jawed Angels."
The movie is a one sided depiction of the women's sufferage movement in the US. There is absolutely no indication that there were any funders who were not average women who desperately wanted free from the patriarchy. Of course most of my professors are outspoken about their support for more government in every corner of our lives and of course we must have UBI, which is described as free money that just pays our bills at the standard of living that we now hold, with no strings attached.
My assignment is to praise the advantages of "macro" social work, where governmental changes save the day over mezzo social work efforts that cannot do the heavy lifting of macro work.
Assignment - "In the film, the methods of the National Women’s Party (NWP) and the National American Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA) are contrasted. What does the film suggest about big (macro) change versus incremental (mezzo or micro) change? When might one type of change be better than the other?
2-3 pages, double spaced, no references."
Do you have any suggestions about smaller local changes that may have done more to help women who were not protected by their fathers, husbands, and brothers? I'm looking for a practical argument against stepping into the macro solution trap, where lobbiests change the structure of society to meet their corporate goals. I don't know enough about the time period or structure of the family and community to think like an anti-sufferagist who did not have the protection of the men in her world.
So pleased to come across your work, just purchased the book today, cant wait!