Suffragette City

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This afternoon.

Leinster House

Launching the Oireachtas ‘Votail100’ programme of events commemorating 100 years of suffrage were female politicians of almost every hue plus two blokes (above) with top from left: members of the Gaiety School of Acting, Meg O’Brien, Megan O’Malley and Evelyn O’Keeffe dressed in costumes provided by the Abbey Theatre.

Next they’ll want bodily autonomy.

FIGHT!

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20 thoughts on “Suffragette City

  1. M.Quinn

    My grandmother and her sister, Isa and Helen Hughes of Sandymount . Both listed their occupation as suffragette in the 1911 census!

    1. Nigel

      Male actors in Hollywood get a massive head start by virtue of not having to go through a relentless process of sexual assault, harassment and discrimination, so there’s a separate category for them because their achievements just aren’t as impressive.

        1. Nigel

          This would sting a bit more if you’d ever demonstrated an ability to understand other people’s views of the world.

      1. DeKloot

        By trying to generate an equivalency but that’s not completely true. Of course, women in Hollywood have no doubt been treated awfully. However, young, aspiring male actors have no doubt experienced that too. And as you know it occurred when they were underage at that.

  2. Clampers Outside!

    One should always remember the 700,000 who died in WW1, half of whom had no vote, with special note for the young men white feathered into service by Suffragettes. These war deaths were one of the biggest pressures to achieve the Representation of The People Act of 1918, which gave 8m women and 5m men the vote, in all fairness.

    1. dav

      yeah, they get remembered every year in November, but the skies might fall in if someone remembers the suffragettes once every 100 years.. *rolls eyes*

      1. Clampers Outside!

        ” ……….the danger of “the single story” than Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in her magnificent TED Talk about Africa. “The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete,” she warns. “They make one story become the only story.” The single suffrage story is about white ladies throwing stones. Not untrue, but desperately incomplete. ”

        https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/12/suffragettes-white-middle-class-women-pankhursts

        It is better to tell a full story of history, rather than focus on a few, especially when some of those being venerated, like Emmeline Pankhurst, acted against the suffrage movement when engaging in the white feather campaign.

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