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Prophet 451

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4. Whuh?

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Thu Mar 20, 2014, 08:22 AM

Mar 2014

The white flower/feather campaign had little to do with the sufferagettes. While there was some crossover at an individual level (i.e. some sufferagettes were also handing out white flowers/feathers), there was never any kind of coordinated action.

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Latest insanity I heard from a "Men's Rights" dude...feminists are to blame for conscription and war [View all] Ken Burch Mar 2014 OP

don't pay any attention to those juvenile creeps Skittles Mar 2014 #1

That is really good advice and statement pipoman Mar 2014 #2

K&R n/t Feral Child Mar 2014 #3

Whuh? Prophet 451 Mar 2014 #4

It didn't sound right to me, either. Ken Burch Mar 2014 #6

The woman who founded the Order of the White Feather... shaayecanaan May 2014 #11

The way that sort of suffragist worked is the way Lyndon Johnson expected the civil rights movement Ken Burch May 2014 #12

well, its complicated shaayecanaan May 2014 #13

Complete and utter balderdash. HubertHeaver Mar 2014 #5

I'm sorry but there's no reasoning with the willfully ignorant Gormy Cuss Mar 2014 #7

Umm, aren't men the ones who started most of the wars in history? Lunacee_2013 Mar 2014 #8

Yeah...we dudes pretty much do have the franchise on wars, n/t. Ken Burch Mar 2014 #9

You'll find the "white feather" tale used on DU thucythucy Apr 2014 #10