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shaayecanaan

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13. well, its complicated

Fri May 2, 2014, 02:54 AM

May 2014

there was certainly a socialist, Jacobin tendency within the suffragists, but predominantly it tended to be quite conservative. There was a strong link between suffragists and the temperance movement, for example.

When women did obtain the franchise it was quite a setback for the left initially with even working class women feeling much less affinity for the trade union movement and working class politics than men. But this has reversed since 1980 or so as left of Centre parties have abandoned their working class base.

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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