11-12-2018, 02:20 PM
(11-12-2018, 09:06 AM)sbarrera Wrote: There is a linear trend of women being integrated into society in effect. It has only been a little over one saecular cycle that women could vote. And even more recently that there is an expectation that women have all careers open to them, and have the right to be in the workplace and other public spaces without being sexually harassed.
Women and the vote, by generations:
The Transcendental generation was the first to call for the vote.
The Gilded had other concerns, and only a very few of them got the chance to vote.
Progressive women lived long enough that some got to vote only in old age.
Missionary women crusaded for the vote, got it, and rarely won political office. They did get Prohibition, arguably the first feminist cause to get results (the idea was that men prohibited from drinking would not drink up their pay in a saloon and come home only when they were broke, often to beat their wives and children while hung over.
Lost women, except for the youngest, missed a few votes because women did not have the vote while some were coming of age.
GI women always had the vote, which may have made America less tolerant of the fascistic KKK... a fact not forgotten by American generals at the end of the Second World War who insisted on women getting the vote in France, Italy, and Japan. Fascism of all kinds has typically been an almost exclusively-male club. The Allied victors figured that women were more likely to heed the teachings of Christian or Buddhist clergy than some drunken rabble-rouser in a drinking hole. France may have been an ally, but Charles de Gaulle could recognize that France had barely avoided a fascist takeover in the 1930s and that the sort of people who aligned themselves with Vichy had much the same cause for right-wing radicalization (angry rabble-rousers venting their hatred toward Jews, foreigners, liberals, and socialists) as did Nazis, the Klan, and other fascists. Women tended to oppose Communism unless they were already predisposed to it by family culture.
The Silent Generation and later generations of women cannot imagine not having the vote, for the female franchise has been around throughout their lives.
And, yes, women are more likely to see Donald Trump in a negative light.
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One drink dissolves much of my pathological anxiety. A second drink dissolves my shaky coordination. A third drink dissolves my conscience. A fourth drink knocks me out.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.