While the story of female suffrage is taught at school from a young age, few people today know the long and gruesome history of how men won the right to vote

ChaosOpen · 2015-10-08T13:28:24+00:00

Does the story of female suffrage include the bombings suffragettes carried out?

FrigOffCyrus · 2015-10-08T15:36:01+00:00

And people forget how the ERA wasn't passed due to the efforts of one woman, Phyllis Schlafly, not some patriarchy seeking to keep women down.

2015-10-08T18:32:36+00:00

So basically rich white women had the right to vote before most men, and men today are still subject to military slavery.

fuck_sjws13 · 2015-10-08T10:09:41+00:00

Because god forbid people celebrate the achievements of men for once. Fucking feminist education system. The worst part is that women wouldn't have even gotten the vote if it weren't for the men who handed it to them.

Spoonwood · 2015-10-08T14:48:43+00:00

Men (and women) in prison in the U. K. still can't vote.

equiposeur · 2015-10-08T15:23:35+00:00

In the US, also, voting was initially restricted to property owning white men. It was extended to all white men in 1842.

DillipFayKick · 2015-10-08T16:05:29+00:00

The really sad thing is that men in the U.S. still have to pay for the right to vote and drive all the while being told we're the ones with privilege.

baserace · 2015-10-08T10:24:24+00:00

Bookmark this for the coming social media onslaught of anger about women getting the vote, re: the new suffragettes movie.

goodfoobar · 2015-10-08T14:03:48+00:00

Does anyone know of a decent time line for the progression of voting rights? I've seen lot of disjointed information covering only one country or one gender or limited time periods. Would be good to have a link that I can just refer to when needed.

2015-10-08T19:20:14+00:00

Is there an equivalent article about the history surrounding all men fighting for the rights to vote in the US? This article is about the UK

SilencingNarrative · 2015-10-08T22:57:32+00:00

That was a great piece. Thanks for submitting it.

Imnotmrabut · 2015-10-08T16:21:22+00:00

But didn't all men have the vote for thousands of years before the womens?

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