When women fought for the vote, did old white men call them UNGOVERNABLE and VIOLENT?

[Grasswire2]

[link:https://mith.umd.edu/womensstudies/ReadingRoom/History/Vote/enduring-significance.htmlhttp://|


Some interesting history


]https://blog.education.nationalgeographic.org/2014/08/21/tbt-how-a-riot-helped-to-ratify-the-19th-amendment/

[elleng]

1. The 'old white men' themselves became violent.

'And within only a few blocks it was clear that things were quickly getting out of control. Many of the male spectators, who had been drinking, began to jeer and taunt the women. The abuse escalated, and before long throngs of onlookers overran the barriers, and began pushing and shoving the marchers, knocking some to the ground and burning others with lighted cigars. Police waded in, wielding their clubs, but they were hopelessly outnumbered. The parade came nearly to a standstill and complete chaos broke out.

As men swarmed the car Elsie May was riding in, all she could do was attempt to shield her children from the violence around them.'

[FarPoint]

2. Exactly....

Horrible abuse....

[Kajun Gal]

3. Uh, yes! They did horrific things to the women. Horrific.

[Grasswire2]

4. and the women were not violent (here in the US although they were in UK)

Women simply wouldn't have their shit.

[Wounded Bear]

5. Well, yeah they did. Wasn't true...

but when has that ever stopped them?

[thinkingagain]

6. It was after watching the movie Iron Jawed Women

that I made the decision not to ever miss a vote if I can help it. What those women suffered to get us the ability to make choices. It makes me sad that so many throw it away.

VOTE!!!

[lunatica]

7. Yes, and they'll gladly get violent again if they can

Trump sure won’t stop them.

[anarch]

8. yep... and I'd bet a bunch of the current crop of pasty old white fuckers would rather women didn't

have the right to vote.