Context: the Anti-suffragism movement was actually quite popular among women. And for a long time a majority of women agreed that they shouldn’t be given the right to vote.
It’s actually quite interesting to see this and compare it to the “tradwives” that are currently so popular. A few of their arguments are pretty similar to those of 110 years ago.
Angel_OfSolitude on
The main reason they didn’t want the vote was because it came with two big responsibilities, the draft and the bucket brigade. Neither of which were too appealing to them.
Nowadays we have proper fire departments so the bucket brigade isn’t an issue, nor were women ever compelled to the draft so in the end they got their votes free of duties.
Woden-Wod on
this is because voting came with a lot of responsibilities like the draft, jury duty, and other shit I’m sure.
most women looked at the whole thing and went, “what? no I don’t want to do all that.”
traditionally voting came with a lot of responsibility to other things, it wasn’t a right, it was a duty that came with responsibility to service of some sort.
in Britain for a good time to vote you had to actively be contributing to the country in some way, so this would be owning land and businesses, serving the army, etc.]
or at minimum that was a lot of the anti-suffrage stuff I know of don’t know if it was similar everywhere tho.
Diabolical_potplant on
“Why should we give people who don’t own land the vote? They don’t have a proper stake in the game?”
6869ButterNotFly on
I would like to argue that we get the vote, but also vibrators AND some cocaine for the harder times
Difficult-Craft-8539 on
Expanding the franchise across genders (at the time anyway) solves nothing if you still need to own property.
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Context: the Anti-suffragism movement was actually quite popular among women. And for a long time a majority of women agreed that they shouldn’t be given the right to vote.
The [Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-suffragism#Modern_era) about this is pretty interesting
It’s actually quite interesting to see this and compare it to the “tradwives” that are currently so popular. A few of their arguments are pretty similar to those of 110 years ago.
The main reason they didn’t want the vote was because it came with two big responsibilities, the draft and the bucket brigade. Neither of which were too appealing to them.
Nowadays we have proper fire departments so the bucket brigade isn’t an issue, nor were women ever compelled to the draft so in the end they got their votes free of duties.
this is because voting came with a lot of responsibilities like the draft, jury duty, and other shit I’m sure.
most women looked at the whole thing and went, “what? no I don’t want to do all that.”
traditionally voting came with a lot of responsibility to other things, it wasn’t a right, it was a duty that came with responsibility to service of some sort.
in Britain for a good time to vote you had to actively be contributing to the country in some way, so this would be owning land and businesses, serving the army, etc.]
or at minimum that was a lot of the anti-suffrage stuff I know of don’t know if it was similar everywhere tho.
“Why should we give people who don’t own land the vote? They don’t have a proper stake in the game?”
I would like to argue that we get the vote, but also vibrators AND some cocaine for the harder times
Expanding the franchise across genders (at the time anyway) solves nothing if you still need to own property.