We’re told feminism has always been about equality. We’ve looked at the early actions and some of the early writing of feminists which showed otherwise, but what about the direct statements of the suffragettes at the Seneca Falls Convention? Tonight, we’re going to examine the Declaration of Sentiments and see.…
Last week we planned on going to the next 2 items on the timeline this week, but then a couple of days ago, our attention was brought to an article with an we’re not used to seeing from the political perspective of the source, nor from commentators of the writer’s sex.…
We’ve been told that last week, we got feminism all wrong. It was a misunderstanding, or those weren’t real feminists, because feminism is about equality!(™) Just check the dictionary.But whose, though? Modern “equity” feminists may point to their favorite definition, but would the suffragettes like what they had to say?…
In our timeline of the historical context around the evolution of suffrage in countries influenced that had been English colonies, whose systems were influenced by the English parliamentary system & English common law, we have reached the American Revolution, and have been discussing what voting looked like at that time.…
Over the last 2 weeks, as part of the context related to the development of suffrage in nations influenced by the English parliamentary system, we delved into the related history of gynocentrism, by discussing the difference between gynocentrism, and gynocentric culture, reading an article on the subject from Peter Wright’s reference site, gynocentrism.com.…
Last week as part of the context related to the development of suffrage in nations influenced by the English parliamentary system, we delved into the related history of gynocentrism, by discussing the difference between gynocentrism, and gynocentric culture, reading an article on the subject from Peter Wright’s reference site, gynocentrism.com.…
Show notes In discussing the history of male suffrage and its link to the history of male military obligation, I realized there’s an aspect of this history we’re not talking about. In today’s political debates we’re told that historically, patriarchal attitudes kept women out of military service and many other harsh realities of life; dirty jobs like coal mining, dangerous work like hunting...
Last week, we learned quite a bit about how voting rights came to exist under English common law, and how that history intrinsically connects them with civic duty and military obligation, but that only brings us to the point where 1%-3% of the population even had voting rights.…
How can we talk about women’s history in English-influenced western law without talking about voting rights? Well, sorry ladies. If we’re going to talk about voting rights, we’re going back a bit further than the suffragettes. The practice predates women’s interest in it by a few hundred years.…
We’re two Thursdays into whammon’s history month. Last week we took a break from whammon’s studies to learn about the marxist history of International Whammon’s day. Tonight, we’re returning to our academic pursuits to learn more about the totally organic academic gender revolution with its totally legitimate corporate and government sponsors.…
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