Women's suffrage and half a century later...
Yesterday was the last program in the series where Tony Larsen presented on the topic of LGBT. It was on the long struggle of women's suffrage. I was able at the end to note an ‘ epilogue, ’ that it was a half century later from women winning the vote when 18-year-olds finally got the vote, half of whom were subject to trafficking known as the draft. Jeanne Arnold was seated behind me, and she reacted, ‘Ooh, I never thought of that.’ Men's and women's oppressions were different, a little like comparing apples with oranges. Possibly women 'win' in the sense of which gender had it worse. Certainly the women's movement made us all aware of their many oppressions. But, culturally, men seem to have been taught to have a stiff upper lip and all -- and no crying! -- that so complaining about their oppressions was, in a sense, dysfunctional, in the context of the culture. --Mark M
