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.…
We have to talk about the bear | An HBR production
I didn’t want to do this, because I feel like this meme has already been mauled to death by angry feminists, and the people who responded to their blatant statements of prejudice. That’s probably why I put it off until it was pretty much going to be labeled an afterthought, but the more discussion I’ve seen and heard on the bear vs man topic, the more I realized this has to be done.…
An interesting development | HBR Talk 315
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.…
What dictionary definition? | HBR Talk 314
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?…
What about gender roles during the American revolution? | HBR Talk 309
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.…
What does suffrage history look like? | HBR Talk 307
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.…
Who invented gynocentric culture | HBR Talk 306
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.…
How did gynocentric culture come about? | HBR Talk 305
Last week we discussed how biologically different women were from women today in ancient times when we didn’t have the luxury of tools to do all of our hard manual labor around the home. We learned that physical evidence in the bones of men and women indicated that historically, women’s arms endured much more mechanical loading than women of today, and the average woman likely had arms stronger...
Are women the weaker link? | HBR Talk 304
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...
Some facts about early suffrage might shock you! |HBR Talk 303
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.…
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