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Tuesday, 21 August 2018

Bullshit has always been with us

The first link in the list below is a prime example of historical bullshitting.

Via Michael J. Coffey.

Originally shared by Anne-Marie Clark

Suffragette satire, 1915

"It’s a response to pamphlet entitled Some Reasons Why We Oppose Votes for Women [link below] put out by the anti-suffrage group the National Association Opposed to Women’s Suffrage–the same group that created this gem [link below] we’ve highlighted before warning that giving women the vote would put the government under “petticoat rule.”

See "Some Reasons Why We Oppose Votes for Women" (1894):
https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.1300130c

See the pamphlet talking up fear of "petticoat rule" (ca 1910s):
http://assets.feministing.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/antisuffrage.jpg
More on it:
https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2012/11/vote-no-on-womens-suffrage-bizarre-reasons-for-not-letting-women-vote/264639/

From:
http://feministing.com/2014/11/03/vintage-feminism-why-we-oppose-votes-for-men/
https://twitter.com/LouisatheLast/status/1026882725909852160

1 comment:

  1. Since Army is mentioned twice:

    Men in the USA even today have to sign up for selective service in order to vote. When in 2016 congress wanted to extend selected service to women there was a outcry from feminists.

    And when in 2013 Switzerland had a referendum on abolishing conscription of men that was rejected. And helf the voters where women.

    This might be a satire pice but there is a truth here: Mens place still is in the army and women and/or society want it that way.

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