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Why More Women Fought Against Their Right to Vote Than For It
In this intriguing episode, we explore the often overlooked history of female anti-suffrage movements. Surprisingly, many of the organizations opposing women's voting rights were primarily led by women. Join us as we delve into why these women resisted suffrage, their arguments, and whether their predictions about women's suffrage were accurate. Featuring key historical insights, thought-provoking discussions, and a look at modern perspectives, this episode uncovers a complex chapter in the history of women's rights.
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Malcolm Collins: Hello Simone. I'm excited to be talking to you today. Today we are going to be doing a deep dive on an interesting phenomenon that is often forgotten in history, which is that female suffrage when women first started fighting to vote, the organization that opposed female suffrage and most of the.
Organizations and movements that opposed female suffrage were majority female. They were not majority male. So we're going to do an investigation into these movements, the arguments they used and why women of the past didn't want women of today to vote, and what they predicted would happen to civilization if we allowed women to vote.
Oh, were they, right? Mm.
Simone Collins: Were they, I don't know. You know, it's 'cause I really, I've, I've even recently watched some historical videos on suffrage. They don't really talk about the counter movement especially, which was led by many women. They more talk about the atrocities [00:01:00] committed against some of the women who were jailed and force fed and, and whatnot, which was, you know, very unpleasant.
They, they sort of talk about all the really showy stuff, but not really about the. The concerns, the intellectual argument. I'm excited we doing this. Well, these
Malcolm Collins: women who were fighting for suffrage were pretty vile people, which is something we'll also go into. The, yeah, I mean, that
Simone Collins: doesn't justify.
Shoving a tube. Like at one point they shoved a tube down this one woman's throat. Well, they thought they did, except they shoved it into her lung instead. Like it wasn't great, you know? But was
Malcolm Collins: she, was she on a hunger strike? Yeah. That's not, that's, that's trying to help her get food. I know, I know. It still sucks.
I, I know it still sucks, but she was being a B Okay, Simone.
Simone Collins: Sorry. Let's get into it. Let's get into it. Please mansplain it to me. Tell me I'll man to you. Put me in my[00:02:00]
Malcolm Collins: all, all. So historical records indicate that the female anti suffrage movement was substantial, particularly in the US until 1916, was more women joining anti suffrage groups than suffrage associations. So the female suffrage movement was majority male. The female anti suffrage movement was majority female.
Simone Collins: Let's, let's get out of the vote.
Malcolm Collins: Yeah. Wow. For instance, women's suffrage in the United States notes that more American women organize against their own right to vote than in favor of it until this period. Suggesting a larger female presence in Nebraska. The Nebraska Association opposed to women's suffrage was overwhelmingly female, was men playing a marginal role in Great Britain.
The Women's National Anti Suffrage League had about 337,000 signatures on a petition in 1914, indicating significant female involvement. Though exact comparisons was male participation is less clear in the uk. [00:03:00] Mm-hmm. More women joined anti suffrage groups than suffrage associations until 1916. , Jo c Miller.
, never a fight of woman against man. What textbooks don't say about women's suffrage and this is a, a book that they did. Okay. , so this is from a jstor. So this is like academic
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