Andrew Wilson
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And sometimes in a bad direction.
So the thing is, is like, the idea that they had there was that most men couldn't vote.
There was no universal suffrage for men, including slaves, right?
For the most part were men.
And women couldn't vote.
Because most people weren't allowed to vote.
Now, women, the arguments against women voting are pretty simple.
And it was the idea is landholdership and force.
All right.
Can women utilize force in order to maintain land?
The answer is no.
Generally, that takes men.
So the biggest like the if you're looking at feminism, for instance, you had the anti-suffragettes and then the suffragettes.
But the anti-suffragettes arguments were way better.
the argument was pretty simple it just worked like this the you cannot erode or get rid of the patriarchy because you always have to appeal to it for your rights and that's a fundamental truth and since that's a fundamental truth i've never seen a great reason why women should be able to vote because they can vote to send men to war that they themselves do not have to go fight
They are not beholden to the draft.
Only men are.
And they can say, well, you're not beholden to the draft, perhaps because you're too old for it.
But you were beholden to the draft when you were not too old for it.
So your time could have come.