Rachel Wilson

And the things they predicted would happen.

The anti-suffragists said, you're going to see a lot of divorce.

You're going to see broken up families because it's going to pit husband and wife against each other, just like it did with my parents, where you've got, you know, mom wants to vote for the Democrat.

Dad wants to vote for the Republican or vice versa.

Now they're fighting about it.

They want to split.

They have separate worldviews.

And political interests will be used to drive a wedge between men and women and break up families.

And then we're all going to be a bunch of single moms.

We're all going to have to work.

Like they literally predicted this stuff.

One whole chapter of the book is dedicated to their arguments.

How did they have such amazing foresight?

I mean, I just would, ignorantly, I would think, okay, well, I think women should have the right to vote.

They're human beings.

They live here.

There's laws that are being... Why would that... Well, I think one of the problems we have when we look back at history is the fallacy of presentism.

We're looking at it through our eyes now with all of the presuppositions that we have about the world kind of baked in.

And at this time, so in 1920...

People don't realize that men had only universally gotten the right to vote very shortly before women got it.