Mr. Powers says:
In arguing with a bigot i became a little stumped by this comment. And so far i haven't been able to find anything on the issue.
And the issue is this: What was the reality for women who wished to vote ? For example for those women who had some rights in voting in local election but were barred from governmental elections - in what form did this barring take. Or to put another way what form did their lack of right to voting take ?
And the question extends to the point that Mr. Powers makes, that lower class men were also denied voting rights. But in what form did this take. Was physical force used to prevent admittance ? Or is there any base to Mr.Powers claim of cultural consensus.
http://dpsinfo.com/women/history/timeline.html
For, starters I don't think anyone should have the right to vote but that's another conversation. Men never kept their women chained up and pregnant tied to a bed and told them 'You can't vote you whore!' it was based on a cultural consensus. It was a better a time and one unknown and mysterious to feminists. most men could not vote during most of those same years in which women could not vote. Electoral politics didn't even exist before the french revolution ...the time window in which women couldn't vote was historically very brief, and for most of that same stretch most men were similarly deprived. Women didn't get to vote before the 1920's because the thought had never occurred to them.
In arguing with a bigot i became a little stumped by this comment. And so far i haven't been able to find anything on the issue.
And the issue is this: What was the reality for women who wished to vote ? For example for those women who had some rights in voting in local election but were barred from governmental elections - in what form did this barring take. Or to put another way what form did their lack of right to voting take ?
And the question extends to the point that Mr. Powers makes, that lower class men were also denied voting rights. But in what form did this take. Was physical force used to prevent admittance ? Or is there any base to Mr.Powers claim of cultural consensus.
http://dpsinfo.com/women/history/timeline.html
I've tried looked up these incidences, but so far to no success.1776 Abigail Adams writes to her husband, John Adams, asking him to "remember the ladies" in the new code of laws. Adams replies the men will fight the "despotism of the petticoat."
1777 Women lose the right to vote in New York.
1780 Women lose the right to vote in Massachusetts.
1784 Women lose the right to vote in New Hampshire.