http://www.cooltools4men.com/TheVote.htm

By Darren Blacksmith & Julian (julian{at}shopit.net)


Enter into an argument with anyone sympathetic to feminism and you'll soon
hear them fall-back onto the oldest feminist complaint in the book: the
issue of women being given the vote.

This is usually their refuge argument. The line-of-attack they use when all
else has failed. The topic that they guarantee you will never be able to
refute, and therefore will allow them to win.

Not any more.

For example, how long do you think it took women in Britain to get voting
rights equal to men? A thousand years? Five hundred? Or maybe only 250
years?

Ten.

It took ten years.

Does that surprise you? It did me, but it really shouldn't do. You see, we
are so spoon-fed a feminist line of thinking in the media that we are
brainwashed into swallowing their lies. It's all a distortion of the truth,
which only works because most of us get all our information from
television - indoctrinated by feminist propaganda - and we don't know all
the details of history.

For example, consider these facts about women and the vote that you won't
have heard about on daytime TV:

Women encouraged a male-bloodbath genocide to get the vote.
Far from standing for 'equality' between the sexes, the early feminists
formed organizations in order to shame men into being conscripted for war -
even when women can't be.
It actually only took 10 years for women to get equal voting rights as men.
During the time women got equal voting rights to men, men were still
shouldering the responsibility for society's most dangerous jobs, paying the
most taxes, and fighting the wars to protect the country.
The issue of women not having the vote is always held up as proof that men
jealously hoarded all the power in society and it took the selfless effort
of the almost saint-like suffragettes to win this fundamental right for
women. But the whole argument doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

For one thing, it neglects the fact that 'the hand that rocks the cradle is
the hand that rules the world': women's position in control of the household
and family unit gave them enormous power. As Warren Farrell documents in his
book "The myth of male power", for all the talk of a man's home being his
castle, its always been very much a woman's sphere of power.

And were the suffragettes really the all-important, saint-like people that
made the difference? Read the real story, not the crap they feed you in the
media. This is the real story behind how all Ordinary people had to wait for
the right to vote, and not just women.

1430-1832

From about 1430 until 1832 the first of the political reform Acts some four
hundred years, very few people indeed were able to vote. If my instinct is
correct, in today's terms you would need to have been something like a cash
millionaire to be able to vote, or, which is more likely an extremely high
standing in society. We are talking lord of the manor here. Catholics
weren't able to vote and neither were Jews. Parliament which is nothing like
it is today was mainly made up of land owners and Vast swathes of the
country had no representation at all. But as the industrial revolution
kicked in and word of the French revolution, people were becoming very
unrestful and wanted change and a voice.

To try and give some perspective imagine trying to bring up a family pre
industrial revolution. You were more than likely tied to a landowner who
paid you an amount which barely covered the weekly bills. You were starving!
Cold! Your teeth would be rotting! You would be covered in lice and all
sorts of boils and bunions! And if you dared to protest you were likely to
be hung drawn and quartered.

There isn't really any mention that a woman of great standing was not
allowed to vote but in the year 1831 and census was conducted and it was
determined that in 1832 with passing of the first reform act, roughly 2% of
the whole of the UK population was eligible to vote. The whole system was
still as corrupt as f*ck and a system where the elite and their womenfolk
held most people in slavery from the cradle to the grave.

There are many many accounts of mainly men being executed, or transported,
or killed in riots but eventually after many hundreds of years struggle the
1832 Act was passed in Parliament.

1844-1866

In 1844 women and children under 18, working hours, were limited to 12
hours.

No such restriction on men.

So which groups of people rights were considered first, Men or women and
children ?

So much for female oppression eh ?

1847 and yet another reduction in working hours for women and children, this
time to 10 hours.

No such restriction on men.

So which groups of people rights were considered second, Men or women and
children ?

So much for female oppression eh ?

1867-1914

The 1867 Reform Act gave the vote to about 1,500,000. Roughly 6%.

The 1884 Reform Act added about 6,000,000 voters. Roughly 24%.

I recently went on a date with a woman who announced that for 2 thousand
years men have oppressed women, to which I retorted, no, for 2 thousand
years man and women have oppressed men and women and oppressed men have
fought and sacrificed to liberate women and children first. As an aside -
why is it that women take as their base-line for the length of time 'men
have oppressed women' to be 2 thousand years? Did the moment of the birth of
Christ mark a turning point after which all men went around bashing and
oppressing women??

1914-1918

I'm going to skip on now to 1914 and the Great War. To coerce men into the
war a great idea was thought up by Admiral Charles Fitzgerald (perhaps it
was his missus who thought it up and should go down as one of those female
inventions that are sorely lacking). The idea involved women handing out
white feathers to any man who was able to fight but didn't for whatever
reason. Women were also encouraged to not form relationships with such
cowardly men.

With the support of leading writers such as Mary Ward and Emma Orczy, the
organisation encouraged women to give out white feathers to young men who
had not joined the British Army.

Baroness Emma Orczy founded the Active Service League, an organisation that
urged women to sign the pledge to never to be seen in public with any man
who, being in every way fit and free for service, has refused to respond to
his country's call.

Some of the leading feminists at the time such as Emmeline Pankhurst,
Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney played a leading role as speakers at
meetings to shame young men into the army.

When this war had finally ended there were some 10,000,000 men dead,
21,000,000 wounded and 7,000,000 prisoners or missing.

And look who were some of the main activists in forcing men to die.

1918-1928

As a reward for there sacrifices, had they lived to 1918 all men over the
age of 21 were allowed to vote.

And as a reward for the efforts the feminist and women's movement in sending
so many of our men to their death women over 30 were given the vote.

A typical feminist type response with regard voting rights that if it wasn't
for Emily Wilding Davison who threw herself under the King's horse, Anmer,
as it rounded Tattenham Corner women wouldn't have had the vote.

My response to the typical feminist on this issue now, is your forbearers
helped to commit genocide to get the vote.

Women got the right to vote at 21 in 1928 some 10 years later at the cost of
10,000,000 lives and one martyr.

The actual difference was 10 years not a 100 or 2000, but 10.

And its worth baring in mind that ten years after that, from 1939-1945
British men were conscripted to fight in the Second World War, and women -
who had equal voting power - had no such obligation to be sent abroad to be
possibly slaughtered for their country.

So much for women being the oppressed sex.

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