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HenryMakow.com – Nov 2, 2022

“Woman does not wish to turn aside from her higher work, which is itself the end of life, to devote herself to government, which exists only that this higher work may be done. Can she not do both? No!”

The Suffragette movement from 100 years ago is today’s Transgender movement–a 100% media-created movement thrust upon us by the usual suspects.

The following is based on an article from The Atlantic magazine dated September 1903: Why Women Do Not Wish the Suffrage

By Edward Menez – (henrymakow.com)

In 1895, the women of Massachusetts were asked by the state whether they wanted the right to vote.

Of the 575,000 voting women in the state, only 22,204 cared enough about it to submit a “yes” vote.  That is less than 4% of eligible women.  Bear in mind that is for the progressive state of Massachusetts, and numbers would have been much lower in the Southern states.

So in a mere 125 years or so things have really changed.  What has caused the change?

One major reason is that men and women viewed themselves as different in the past, but in a complementary way.  Men and women are not “equal”.  Men have certain natural advantages in strength.  Women have the advantage over men in patience or forbearance.

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