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I didn’t really want to present this pressing issue in the form of a poll, because if I had my druthers women wouldn’t get to vote at all, at anytime, anywhere. However, knowing that the majority of women are pro choice--you’ll be happy to see that I gave you a very liberal 3-choice voting option above. You may want to hold back the thank you’s to my generosity here until you’ve finished reading this post.
I am no misogynist or chauvinist, as I once had a deep but brief love and respect for three ex-wives. The fact that one is deceased (I believe no fault of mine), and one has taken on a new and vastly improved autistic image, and the other can be found pitching stale peanuts at rabid squirrels near Fenway Park in Boston--has no bearing whatsoever on my determined mission to abrogate women suffrage.
We can all agree that our Founding Fathers were some of the most brilliant minds in our country’s short history. Not only did these (men only) vote and fight to declare our independence from a foreign entity, but they managed to kick aside the Indian (no small task) in order to complete the American objective of forming an independent sovereignty.
Keep in mind that women were not allowed to vote in those days when quick and decisive decisions were needed. You’ll also notice that women didn’t fight in the Revolutionary War. Sure, you may get a side note or two claiming that a woman scalped an Indian or two, but nothing comparing to the magnitude brought on by the manly men of that time. There is even debate as to whether Betsy Ross had stitched the first American Flag. Folklore has it that she was colorblind, therefore stitching her red-white and blues into the proper sequence would have been a demanding if not impossible proposition.
The fact is that women of that day were just as politically ignorant, just as emotionally frazzled, just as PMS-geared, and just as physically inferior to men as they are today.
You wouldn’t be sitting in your chair today and enjoying this post if it weren’t for the all-male intellect, the all-male pioneering entrepreneurship, the all-male fighting machine, and the all-male political and military leadership that engulfed our Founding Fathers from that era. Notice the key phrase here is ’FOUNDING FATHERS’. Not ’FOUNDING MOTHERS’, or ’Mother Nature’s Miracle’, or some ’Female GOD’ of the time.
I find it a necessity to use an appropriate cliché in describing the woman’s role in Eighteenth Century America. Women were indeed kept ’Barefoot and Pregnant’ in whatever they called a kitchen in those days.
Show me, or give me good reason why a woman of today deserves to be more respected, or given more political clout (as in voting rights) than that of their ancestral sisters of yesteryear. Remember, your sisters of that era couldn’t vote, and we are all blessed with the upshot to that important decision.
I would appreciate your vote here.
TimmyKid
I am no misogynist or chauvinist, as I once had a deep but brief love and respect for three ex-wives. The fact that one is deceased (I believe no fault of mine), and one has taken on a new and vastly improved autistic image, and the other can be found pitching stale peanuts at rabid squirrels near Fenway Park in Boston--has no bearing whatsoever on my determined mission to abrogate women suffrage.
We can all agree that our Founding Fathers were some of the most brilliant minds in our country’s short history. Not only did these (men only) vote and fight to declare our independence from a foreign entity, but they managed to kick aside the Indian (no small task) in order to complete the American objective of forming an independent sovereignty.
Keep in mind that women were not allowed to vote in those days when quick and decisive decisions were needed. You’ll also notice that women didn’t fight in the Revolutionary War. Sure, you may get a side note or two claiming that a woman scalped an Indian or two, but nothing comparing to the magnitude brought on by the manly men of that time. There is even debate as to whether Betsy Ross had stitched the first American Flag. Folklore has it that she was colorblind, therefore stitching her red-white and blues into the proper sequence would have been a demanding if not impossible proposition.
The fact is that women of that day were just as politically ignorant, just as emotionally frazzled, just as PMS-geared, and just as physically inferior to men as they are today.
You wouldn’t be sitting in your chair today and enjoying this post if it weren’t for the all-male intellect, the all-male pioneering entrepreneurship, the all-male fighting machine, and the all-male political and military leadership that engulfed our Founding Fathers from that era. Notice the key phrase here is ’FOUNDING FATHERS’. Not ’FOUNDING MOTHERS’, or ’Mother Nature’s Miracle’, or some ’Female GOD’ of the time.
I find it a necessity to use an appropriate cliché in describing the woman’s role in Eighteenth Century America. Women were indeed kept ’Barefoot and Pregnant’ in whatever they called a kitchen in those days.
Show me, or give me good reason why a woman of today deserves to be more respected, or given more political clout (as in voting rights) than that of their ancestral sisters of yesteryear. Remember, your sisters of that era couldn’t vote, and we are all blessed with the upshot to that important decision.
I would appreciate your vote here.
TimmyKid