94 years ago this week the 19th Amend was ratified. These were some arguments against it.

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94 yrs ago this week the 19th Amend was ratified. These were some arguments against it #Womenvote

1:24 PM - 30 Aug 2014

http://theobamadiary.com/2014/08/30/first-family/

[treestar]

10. There's something not working out mathematically there

Like if a woman agrees with her husband it doubles the votes for that person, but if she does not agree with her husband, his vote doesn't count. Or something. It can't go both ways. 2x = 2x. 1x + 1y is another couple. X gets three votes. Y only gets one vote. So it would have an effect on elections. Or something.

[frazzled]

2. That wasn't so long ago when I think ...

that my father was alive then. Just a little boy of nearly 4 years old, but still. I know someone who lived before women had the right to vote. Neither of my grandmothers were able to vote (if they were even then citizens yet).

We got the vote, but we still have a long way to go.

[Itchinjim]

3. My maternal grandmother turned 21 in Feb 1920..

Perfect timing.

[Warpy]

4. My grandmother and great grandmother were Suffragettes in NY

and I can recall seeing stuff similar to this in the scrapbooks my grandmother kept. I was able to salvage only one of her books from the Florida mildew. Unfortunately, it was from the 1930s and contains none of the Sufragette and opposition material.

Stupid arguments like this one were easy to dismiss. The real scare tactics to men were illustrative, showing a woman in an easy chair, smoking a cigar, while the man of the house was on his knees in the kitchen, scrubbing the floor. To men. any step toward equality was deeply threatening, as it still is today. It's why they oppose reproducitve health care for us so vehemently.

[Fred Sanders]

5. "Petticoat rule" still scares the man pants off of Republicans.

Yet equally insane justifications for suppressing the minority vote are treated this very day as not being insane....wonder if there will be a similar look back at the insane justifications of 2014 in 2114.

[treestar]

11. Yeah what the hell is petticoat rule?

Elizabeth I? How was that era bad?

[logosoco]

6. I bet there are plenty of repubs who agree with what this pamplet says. nt

[Laelth]

7. Nothing new.

Conservatives tend to be wrong about most things, as history often proves. The 19th Amendment is no exception to that rule.

-Laelth

[cui bono]

8. Interesting that one of them is the complete opposite reason the RW could use now

for suppressing the vote:

"It is unwise to risk the good we already have for the evil which may occur."

could read:

"It is unwise to risk the evil we already have for the good which may occur."

[StevieM]

9. I seem to remember hearing that women actually voted in the very first presidential election.

But then it was decided that they needed to be protected from the trauma of such intense decision-making.

[Kingofalldems]

12. Did the Koch family have anything to do with that flyer?