• Bloobish [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Honestly hoping we see a return to militant suffragettes ready to wreck shit and make hogs piss themselves in fear

    • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Most people think women were peacefully allowed to have the right vote/abortion/etc

      There was no 'allowing' about it, women fought and died for those rights. Many suffragettes were (CW: sexual assult)

      spoiler

      beaten, raped, demonised, arrested and killed

      same as any struggle for freedom.

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Yup, my favorite callback to people asking for peaceful protests like with MLK (which is a lie), is "what you mean is you want protestors to get hurt, not the cops".

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        My favorite suffragette fact is that UK suffragettes invented the mail bomb as a concept.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      a return to militant suffragettes

      I don't see that happening any time soon. Everyone just shrugged and let the Roe overthrow happened. Hundreds of millions of people knew exactly where the SCOTUS judges lived but all of them are still alive.

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Thing is it'll take the dems dropping the ball on abortion rights this midterms to begin radicalizing to show the need for public actions (and maybe an adventurism or two in minecraft...)