It's being reported that Amber Rudd is " considering " pardoning those suffragettes - those gallant feminists that us women should be eternally grateful towards - sent to prison for the crime of campaigning to allow women to vote, on the 100th anniversary of women being able to vote.
Except that's all crap.
The suffragette movement was the social justice warrior organisation of it's day, filled with upper middle-class liberal women who had no idea how the bulk of ordinary women lived. Don't forget that the franchise for men at that point was based on property and not universal male voting rights.
When the suffragettes were sent to prison it was for good reason, such as assaulting politicians, chaining themselves to fences and other activities included martyrdom , when one of them flung themselves (and died) into the path of a horse at the royal races . Then there were hunger strikes. All of which achieved nothing and whose activities actually hurt women's rights to vote when it came to parliament to vote on the matter. It was only with the advent of the first world war and women (i.e. the middle-class) moving to work in factories as the men fought in the front, that universal suffrage became political mainstream.
Hence why the 100th anniversary is 2018 and not 2011. We can forget that the vote was only given to women over 30 or that the main reform was to make adult male suffrage universal , as previously the vote was restricted to various property qualifications.
But that's not important. Let's indulge in some fantasy virtue signalling over these angelic feminists who led the way for women's liberation. Not only pardoned , but maybe a few statues or two.
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