Does Anyone Know Why Today is Politically Significant to All U.S. Women ?
By Adoniah
@Adoniah (7513)
United States
August 18, 2010 9:00am CST
Has anyone heard the word Suffragette before? Today marks the day that the women of the United States after much "Suffering and strife" finally received the Right to vote. This was accomplished with the passing of the 19th Amendment by Congress.
It was the first time in the US where women got out in the streets and really fought for something. They picketed and were jailed. They went on hunger strikes and were beaten in jail. Some nearly died in jail, but they hung tough until they won the right to vote. All of this with no violence on their part. Amazing....no violence, no war.
This was 90 years ago in the days when ladies were not allowed to do anything without a man's permission. Can you imagine the fortitude it took to do this? Today we whine about the smallest things and here these women went to the most deplorable jails where there was no privacy in a time where women were very sheltered and endured...Most of us do not even vote after these women did this for us. Shame on us...........
I voted on my 18 birthday and have voted every election since... even when I was overseas in the military. I have never forgotten what these women did and never will. I always took my Grandmother to vote too. VOTE LADIES VOTE.
Shalom~Adoniah
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@matersfish (6306)
• United States
18 Aug 10
I was either leaning toward that or National CAMS Day - Crush Another Man's Spirit. 
Growing up in the modern era, it's always hard for me to picture America being so backwards with slavery/segregration, no women's rights, etc. I'm not entirely sure how these attitudes were developed, but I'm happy to see that we're evolving past this kind of stuff, even if it's slowly. (Which, in the context of human evolution, is not really "slow" at all. We're changing rapidly... but I digress.)
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@jb78000 (15139)
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19 Aug 10
pah. you are useless mr fish, if you post one more irritatingly unannoying statement like that i will complain. yes, perhaps i could chase after little friends like urbancompost or random nutcases, but that is pointless. i WORK HARD on horrible arithmetic based questions and i NEED handy victims to take out irritation on. pull yourself together please.
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@Cue1992 (30)
• United States
18 Aug 10
the suffragettes were real feminists. i think today's feminism is just a political weapon of the left wing. i always find it funny when i hear people encourage other people to vote just becuase they have the right to. personally, im against that because i'm not going to encourage some completely uninformed ignorant voter to go to the polls. only people who care about current politics and actually have idea of what is going on should go and vote. anyone can of course, by why encourage an ignorant person to go vote?
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
19 Aug 10
Thank you for pointing this out. Some of us need to be reminded that women didn't always enjoy the rights we do today and some simply need to be informed of that fact. My own mother was born before women could vote. It was my grandmother's generation that fought so hard for this right and I think we should all stop and thank them.
I guess it's partly because I feel close to the women that fought so hard and sacrificed so we could all have this right today as well as the women from my own generation who have spent their lives fighting for equality for women that I like to hold women in high positions or those who aspire to them to a higher standard. I beleive our grandmothers and our mothers as well as our sisters worked too hard to today's women break through the proverbial glass ceiling with a wink and a smile, an old beauty title or by paying for it with hundreds of millions of dollars. I think they should work hard, learn all they can and earn their way to the top fairly and equitably.
Annie
@Adoniah (7513)
• United States
19 Aug 10
Well said Annie...My Paternal Grandmother, who was born in the 1800s managed to get a PHD in Business could not vote and had a hard time getting a job if she put down that she had a such a high degree. Women were not supposed to do such things back then. Of course, the fact that she was Jewish had to be cleverly hidden behind the Presbyterian Religion in order to get that degree at all or to work.
Shalom~Adoniah
@EvanHunter (4026)
• United States
18 Aug 10
Women wield an enormous amount of political power in this country if they know it or not. In buying power alone woman can cripple a company that they organize against. If they were to organize they could undo a lot of the things wrong with the economy just by buying U.S. made products. I think people have been programed to think things are the way they are and can't be changed and forget history too often.
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@Adoniah (7513)
• United States
18 Aug 10
When I was very small, the price of lettuce went up to about a dollar a head. There was no Internet and there were only 3 TV stations and they went off the air at "bedtime".lol Somehow the women of America managed to spread the word and boycotted lettuce. The price went back down to like 15 cents in record time. You cannot ever tell me that women could not quietly rule the world if they wanted to. To helll with politics. They just do not have what it takes anymore.
With the Internet, women could bring down the price of fuel in days. They could even stop all wars. I just don't think they care enough. I have been preaching this ever since I got my first computer....I know they don't really care.......
I won't stop though.
Shalom~Adoniah
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@spalladino (17891)
• United States
20 Aug 10
I was out of town yesterday so didn't get the chance to respond to this discussion during the short time I was online after I returned. Yes, yesterday was an important anniversary and I never forget what my sisters from years past went through so that I could enjoy the same right to cast my vote as a man. Like you, I have voted in every election since I was old enough to do so. I take this right seriously and take the time to learn about the various candidates for the various positions. My mother and sisters vote and my grandmother voted until she became too old and frail to go out anymore. So, I second that motion...VOTE LADIES VOTE.
@TheMetallion (1834)
• United States
18 Aug 10
It was far from the first time in the US where women got out in the streets and fought for something. Women were quite active in the Abolitionist movement, and indeed delayed pressing on suffrage in order to achieve Abolition.
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@michaeldadona (5684)
• Malaysia
18 Aug 10
This is the thing "Sally" (Sarah Louise Palin) is fighting for the next election and she aimed to create another great US political and presidency history, being as the first US women president in the next election.
But, I do think that it isn't gonna be an easy way for her to go through and true as Oprah (Oprah Gail Winfrey) will appear/surface at the last minute backing up Obama for the next election.
Whatever, all of it is very good for women/female group and new political movement/development in the US.
Sarah Louise Palin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin
Oprah Gail Winfrey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah_Winfrey
