Suffragists Fought for the Female Sex

[AspieAndProud]

Haven't started a thread here so I hope I'm doing this right. Anyway, apparently even Down Under has gone topsy turvey. From Quillette: quillette.com/2018/09/24/suffragists-fought-for-the-female-sex/

This bit sounds familiar: Ironically, publishing these quotes about silencing women would lead me to once again be blacklisted for promoting women’s issues. I had hired Phantom Billstickers, a nationwide postering company, to display the posters through the streets of Wellington and for two weeks I happily spotted them on pillars and buildings around the city. This month marks 125 years since women won the vote in New Zealand, so to simultaneously promote current women’s issues and pay tribute to this important anniversary, I sent them another set of homemade posters specifically commemorating women’s suffrage.

Rather than accepting my order as normal, the postering company phoned to interrogate me about what sort of dangerous figure I was, why my posters had been torn and if I could explain my politics to them in light of the complaints they received alleging that I was transphobic. They told me they were nervous about taking my order and in the end, refused to handle it.

Huh? But BUT women weren't allowed to vote because of cunts. Feminine men were allowed to vote. They may have had a shit time in other ways and certainly hanging aorund in dresses wouldn't have been a great idea, however, the laws around voting were around sex, age, property ownership IIRC. Sex meaning cunt/dick. To suggest that it was feminine poeple who were not allowed to vote whether they were dicky or cunty, and masculine people who were allowed to vote whether they were dicky or cunty is just mind blowingly bonkersly nutso. They expect people to go along with this? I suppose it is only women's history after all, which has often been suppressed / changed / rewritten by men.

It's fascinating how global this 'revolution' has been. At MN we talk mainly about the UK and we are familiar with what's happening in the US and Canada but the same is happening across Europe and Australia and New Zealand. No other political movement has had this success this quickly. Comminism, fascism, Islamism; they all had successes in large geographical areas but they weren't global, and they took decades.

The silencing of women (for women's rights) is an old patriarchy tactic - it is to make individual women think they are alone in having these thoughts. The suffragettes got as much hate directed at them as we experience now - there is an entire line of anti-suffragette postcards from the time. We live in a society that barely tolerates women, and will silence dissent at any cost. The upside, I hope it wakes up more women to what is going on, and a new uprising like the Second Wave takes place.

No other political movement has had this success this quickly. Absolutely true Aspie. I said this years ago - where were the hundreds and thousands of trans taking to the streets in protest marches for their rights? (Pride Parades don't count) Women had to, the Suffragettes, and the Second Wave. Trans didn't even break a nail to get to where they are now. Women's rights are not static, they are under constant threat, and we can have those 'rights' taken away at any time.