Looking through some papers I came across this speech by Lady Hale from 2018 which refers to the astonishing threats and violence which were directed at women campaigning for their right to vote and to access an education. It's a great lecture and follows on from another thread which was discussing the similarities of past and present struggles for women's rights
https://supremecourt.uk/uploads/speech_181213_43022fec3c.pdf
Unfortunately she subsequently hasn't been able to perceive the parallels with history and the present struggles around gender ideology and women's rights. But it is still worth a read.
A few notable quotes:
We tend to think that the brave members of the women’s suffrage movement were the suffragettes of the Women’s Social and Political Union, who were eventually prepared to break the law and suffer the appalling consequences of doing so for the sake of the cause. But the lawabiding suffragists of the National Association of Women’s Suffrage Societies were the targets of quite astonishing hostility and violence from their opponents.
" ‘Between two and three hundred undergraduates rushed up to Newnham dragging an effigy of a woman on a bicycle’ . . . ‘They began to hurl themselves against our precious gates . . . some of the men began to climb in at the windows but the gardeners threw them out’ . . . ‘then they tore the effigy to pieces in front of the gates and threw the pieces through’. . . . ‘The gardeners were so indignant about it – they said that they had never seen men mob women before, and a craftsman was heard to say “Well, I thought the toffs was fonder of the females than that”.
"It takes courage to stand up to such bullies. Even in an advanced liberal democracy such as ours, there are still battles to be fought, and we must still have the moral courage to fight them – for Millicent’s sake. But just as she pronounced that ‘courage calls to courage everywhere’, we must not forget that there are many other women in the world who are far worse placed than we are and we must reach out to and support them too"
Although I can't wrap my head around how Hale can write up this history essay on women's rights and be so wilfully blind about women's present day struggles with genderism.