Rachel Wilson

All the pro-suffrage leaders, they banned women from voting on whether they wanted to vote.

Isn't that crazy?

How did Susan B. Anthony get involved in all this?

Because she was one of those people that was like, what was she on the $2 bill or something?

Yeah.

And she was one of those people that was always held up as this like amazing woman.

And then I started listening to your book and I was like, wait, what?

Yeah.

A lot of these women like her and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were kind of the two big figureheads in America.

There were a lot of other important people, but those are the two most people have heard of.

They're the ones who wrote the history of women's suffrage, which is this giant like multi-volume history that they wrote.

Now, they wrote it from a very biased perspective to make themselves the rock stars of this movement.

They wanted to be remembered in the history books as being these awesome, badass, kind of revolutionary, strong, independent women.

They, in fact, came up with the strong independent woman narrative that women were victims who needed to be unvictimized.

They had other suffragists that they were trying to cut out of the history when they were putting together this history of women's suffrage.

Lucy Stone was one that said, wait a minute, you guys are leaving out huge chunks of important information like the fact that our main support comes from men, progressive men.

And socialist men and polygamist men.

Like, why are you guys leaving this out?

If you do it like everyone's going to know you just didn't mention any of that.

Because at the time it was like super well known.