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> And suffragettes put bombs in mailboxes and threw their bodies under horses And you think that had a positive effect on women's suffrage? > 2nd wave feminis
by FiberBundle 5y ago
> And suffragettes put bombs in mailboxes and threw their bodies under horses
And you think that had a positive effect on women's suffrage?
> 2nd wave feminists were far more "anti-man" than modern feminists
Well so what? Was suppressing men an actual tactic that contributed to progress?
- UncleMeat 5y agoThe bombs in the mailboxes? Absolutely.
- refurb 5y agoViolence rarely works politically unless you’re talking about revolution.
- UncleMeat 5y agoIn the UK, you can see a dramatic change in the response to suffrage activism after these sorts of things started. Decades of calm requests went nowhere.
- kortilla 5y agoNo, terrorism did not work
- UncleMeat 5y agoVotes for women. It wasn't obtained through asking politely.
- kortilla 5y agoThose bombings didn’t result in votes for women at all. > The campaign was halted at the outbreak of war in August 1914 without having brought about votes for women, as suffragettes pledged to pause their campaigning to aid the nation's war effort. > The extent to which suffragette militancy contributed to the eventual enfranchisement of women in 1918 has been debated by historians, although the consensus of historical opinion is that the militant campaign was not effective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette_bombing_and_arson_campaign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette_bombing_and_arson_...