Arguments Against Women's Right to Vote.

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By the way it's for a national election,which I should have mentioned.Local elections may have had other firsts.

google New Ashford,Massachusetts or run it through wikipedia,the wikipedia for New Ashford has all the info

I still remember that Canadian Heritage moment where that guy says "Nice women *don't* want to vote."

I don't want to vote, but I'm really "not nice".

I must remember when I come onto wrong planet that the rest of the world no longer exists. I always forget and have to relearn it from scratch.

https://manitobamuseum.ca/main/nice-wom ... ovember-5/

https://www.historymuseum.ca/blog/canad ... -the-vote/

What was meant was first national election in America.

It's local history to my area,so that's in significance to me I guess

The actual balot box used is still in use today.

Despite being so conservative, Wyoming allowed women to vote back in the 1880s, although it was more of a publicity stunt than a genuine move to equality. That's why Wyoming is called the Equality State.

https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia ... right-vote

So it was not an act of altruism, nor even an act of righteousness; instead, it was a faithless gesture driven mainly by the lack of marriage-eligible women in the Wyoming territory.

"Welcome to Wyoming!  Here's your new husband.  I now pronounce you man and wife."

The only good arguments against women having the vote are arguments against anyone having a vote.

Prolly for the same reasons that Arizona and New Mexico allowed women to vote in 1912.

These were the remnants of the western frontier. And were still territories and not full fledged states. The constitution stipulated that a territory has to have a population of X number of voters ( I think 50 thousand) to be granted statehood. Thats population of voters, not population of people. So these last far west territories, being desperate to become states, realized that if they simply allowed women to vote they would instantly double their population of voters . So thats what did...just to get into the express line to statehood. Once achieving statehood they might well have rescinded it a few years later, except in the case of New Mexico and Arizona it was only a few years before the Feds granted nationwide women's sufferage in circa 1920 anyway. So they couldnt turn back.

Hmm to be a nice woman with no right to vote or a b***h with a right to vote?

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I'd choose being a b***h any day.

If my late maternal grandfather had way, all women would be kept in the kitchen, uneducated and pregnant.

He also believed the only reason a woman went to college was to get laid.

(After all, he was the town drunk, and extremely abusive toward my mother.)

Most of my male relatives (and some of the female ones, as well) expressed the belief that the only reason women went to college was to find a well-educated boyfriend and earn an MRS degree.

Most of the rest thought that women went to college to learn how to be lesbians.

I had some weird relatives, back in the 1960s Michigan.

Was that "nice" as opposed to "bitchy"?

Or was that the Victorian equivalent of "good girls" vs "bad girls" (if ya know what I mean?)?

^ The former.

The main line denominations (Lutheran, specifically ELCA, Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, UCC, Moravian), have had women clerics for at least the last 40 years. Note that these denominations also happen to be liberal in theology, since they also support same-sex marriage, and allow the ordination of gay and lesbian clergy, in direct opposition to Biblical tenets. Any wonder these denominations are losing members and are closing churches? I left an ELCA congregation 5 years ago because the senior pastor, who is a woman, began usurping the infallibility of Biblical doctrine. I went to the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, and I’m seeing that denomination starting to go down that slippery slope in some congregations. Pretty soon, traditional Lutheranism will cease to exist within LC-MS.

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Last time I checked, no one is preventing you from cooking and cleaning yourself.

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