Sister blog of Physicists of the Caribbean in which I babble about non-astronomy stuff, because everyone needs a hobby

Sunday, 29 April 2018

The bizarre excuses given to forbid women from voting

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE : WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE HATS ?!?!?

"There are obvious disadvantages about having women in Parliament. I do not know what is going to be done about their hats. How is a poor little man to get on with a couple of women wearing enormous hats in front of him?" – Rowland Hunt, MP for Ludlow, 1917.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43740033
at
Labels: ,

2 comments:

  1. Dan Weese29 April 2018 at 16:06

    Eeee-normous hats.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Catherine Braiding30 April 2018 at 14:39

    This is, of course, just making me want to buy another hat. An enormous one to wear to conferences and upset the men sitting behind me.

    ReplyDelete

Due to a small but consistent influx of spam, comments will now be checked before publishing. Only egregious spam/illegal/racist crap will be disapproved, everything else will be published.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Whose cloud is it anyway ?

I really don't understand the most militant climate activists who are also opposed to geoengineering . Or rather, I think I understand t...

  • Circles of bigotry
    "To claim that you are being discriminated against because you have lost your right to discriminate against others shows a gross lack o...
  • Crossing the quantum street
    For all that I know the Universe is under no obligation to make intuitive sense, I still don't like quantum mechanics. Just because some...
  • A war on science or just people being unscientific ?
    Hmmm. [The comments below include a prime example of someone claiming they're interested in truth but just want higher standard, where...