This was an interesting article outlining some of the reasons politicians gave for refusing Women a voice. A number of them sounded familiar.... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43740033

Then: Godfrey Collins, MP
"Intuition is far more largely developed in women than in men, but instinct and intuition, although good guides, are not the best masters so far as Parliament is concerned."
Now: Lady brain

Then: Frederick Banbury, MP
"Women are likely to be affected by gusts and waves of sentiment."

Now: Menstruators.

Then: John Henderson, MP for Aberdeenshire Western
"I have read their writings, and in one paper... a moderate publication, I saw that the Prime Minister was violently described as an old fossil."

Now: Women be kind.

Then: Sir Charles Hobhouse, MP
"Can you adopt... a policy which might mean an immense destruction of the population of the country which it is essential should not only be retained, but increased?"

Now: uterus-haver/birthing person

Then: Sir Charles Henry, MP
"One of the greatest features in... this country is the responsibility of men towards women...I would view with... apprehension any step which would... relieve men of that responsibility."

Now: men define Women; men speak for Women.

Then: Sir James Grant, MP:
"Men have the vote and the power at the present moment; I say for Heaven's sake let us keep it."

Now: take representation from those Women who do not believe men can be Women.

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