Suffragette - sister suffragette

[gaaraMYluv729]

thats such a cool video!

[jbgood3]

It took the 1918 Representation of the Peoples Act for all men to get the vote in the UK. You had to be a property owner to vote before this. This means that most of the guys in WW1 trenches didn't have a vote. Btw Suffragettes suspended their activities during that war to give out white feathers to males as well as printing pro war literature.

[GoldenGal42]

My history teacher is a feminist (nothing against them) but *argh!* every single lesson we have to sit and lesson to a talk about it! I'm all for equal rights, don't get me wrong. Our teacher is so biased that it's not funny!

I bet that in the exam I shall be humming this song to myself.

[jbgood3]

It sounds like your teacher is being payed to teach history and is peddling feminist agitprop instead with nobody to put an alternative point of view I'll bet!

[GoldenGal42]

Yes, we dare not argue with her.

[jbgood3]

Maybe she takes after this woman! "If the classroom situation is very heteropatriarchal -- a large beginning class of 50 to 60 students, say, with few feminist students -- I am likely to define my task as largely one of recruitment ... of persuading students that women are oppressed" -- Professor Joyce Trebilcot of Washington University, as quoted in Who Stole Feminism: How Women Have Betrayed Women.

[GoldenGal42]

I think our teacher does it a lot because we're an all girl school.

[cate235]

WOOT I'm thirteen and I support feminism!! :)

You should read "Full Frontal Feminism" it pretty much clears up all the stereotypes about feminism and it gives you a quick history. Its also got a lot of extravagent swearing and intresting commnets which make it intresting. The thing with femininsm is that you don't have to agree with all the traits; you can just agree with some values and say that you don't really like other stuff. Part of feminism is keeping open-minded! Woot!

[GoldenGal42]

I'm all for being open minded.

I actually feel sorry for the Suffragettes/suffragists because for two days in a row I have heard girls saying: "I'm going to become a house wife, why should I get a job?" These women did so much and some people just don't realise.

[cate235]

Yes!  This song sort of depresses me because they say "and our daughters daughters will adore us" . . . But they don't! People don't even know who Nellie Mclung is!! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PEOPLE! :)

[GoldenGal42]

Dare I be honest? I didn't, until I searched. Since we're British we don't do much American/Canadian history... Actually none at all. We don't learn about the Suffragettes/gists unless we choose to do History, personally I think it should be taught earlier, it's something everybody needs to know.

[cate235]

Hey your British thats so cool

Love your accent

Anyyyyyyyyyyyways

The thing with Mclung is that she was the first person to suggest womens suffrage to the western world, and I believe that Britain is in the western world. Ummm heres a british (Actually french) feminist . . . look up Christine de Pizan, she rocks my world and she started in the 14th century. yes!

[Pdbddhk]

@cate235 Yes, Christine de Pizan is incredible, she was centuries ahead of her time.

[GoldenGal42]

Dare I be honest? I didn't, until I searched. Since we're British we don't do much American/Canadian history... Actually none at all. We don't learn about the Suffragettes/gists unless we choose to do History, personally I think it should be taught earlier, it's something everybody needs to know.

[Friccky]

ive watched it again :). dont you love the line "although we adore men individually we agree that as a group they're rather stupid" :P

oh, and "cast off the shackles of yesterday". brilliant

[Friccky]

thanks for that, i have my exam tomorrow. i loved learning about the 'gists and 'gettes

[fakegirl15]

I love this song, such power

and I love suffragists :)

they gave me a right to vote on the 3rd, for that I say

WELL DONE SISTER SUFFRAGETTE

xx

[swedishshortsnout]

lol i find the suffragettes/gists really interesting im doing it for my gcse exam :S

[fakegirl15]

I found them very interesting last year when I done my Higher History, good luck with your exams

xx

[swedishshortsnout]

thanks!

[shopaholic2324]

our old headmisstress was a suffragist