Every reason women shouldn't vote, from 1917

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What does Trump’s health care policy have to do with women voting in 1917?

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There’s something reassuring about how the union label from the print shop has remained unchanged in over a century. Solidarity!

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The blank pages are solid suffragette shade. I love this.

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Another such book from the '70’s:

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It is, perhaps unsurprisingly, totally blank.

i guess they forgot to print “1. because it would be a threat to the patriarchy.” (well, not nearly enough of one as it turns out, 100 years later…)

It’s going to be hard to explain this to kids in 2024 when voting is outlawed.

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So… how do you think that argument would have played in 1919?

And even if women of the period were universally receptive to such arguments, the power to pass the 19th amendment was mostly held by men.

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