I suppose I’m a left-of-center liberal who flirts w/ anarchism & libertarianism. Thr’s a lot of alt, electronic, exp’tal, & “world” music I like. I’m working on fan-fix-tion for The Handmaid’s Tale and Star Trek.

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  • DMBFFF@lemmy.worldOPtoAntiTrumpAlliance@lemmy.world•suffragists standing outside the 1920 Republican Convention & holding a banner, "No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex. Susan B. Anthony, 1872."English
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    11 days ago

    wp:Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

    Before 1776, women had a vote in several of the colonies in what would become the United States, but by 1807 every state constitution had denied women even limited suffrage.

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    Full women’s suffrage continued in Wyoming after it became a state in 1890. Colorado granted partial voting rights that allowed women to vote in school board elections in 1893 and Idaho granted women suffrage in 1896. Beginning with Washington in 1910, seven more western states passed women’s suffrage legislation, including California in 1911, Oregon, Arizona, and Kansas in 1912, Alaska Territory in 1913, and Montana and Nevada in 1914. All states that were successful in securing full voting rights for women before 1920 were located in the West.[13][25]

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    Much of the opposition to the amendment came from Southern Democrats; only two former Confederate states (Texas and Arkansas) and three border states voted for ratification,[42] with Kentucky and West Virginia not doing so until 1920.

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    Leser said the amendment “destroyed State autonomy” because it increased Maryland’s electorate without the state’s consent. The Supreme Court answered that the Nineteenth Amendment had similar wording to the Fifteenth Amendment, which had expanded state electorates without regard to race for more than fifty years by that time despite rejection by six states (including Maryland).[94][97]

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    After the U.S. presidential election in 1924, politicians realized the women’s bloc they had feared did not actually exist and they did not need to cater to what they considered as “women’s issues” after all.[105] The eventual appearance of an American women’s voting bloc has been tracked to various dates, depending on the source, from the 1950s[106] to 1970.[107] Around 1980, a nationwide gender gap in voting had emerged, with women usually favoring the Democratic candidate in presidential elections.[108]

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    On the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, President Donald Trump posthumously pardoned Susan B. Anthony.[146]

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    however …,

    wp:Emma Goldman

    In her essay “Woman Suffrage”, she ridicules the idea that women’s involvement would infuse the democratic state with a more just orientation: “As if women have not sold their votes, as if women politicians cannot be bought!”[182] She agreed with the suffragists’ assertion that women are equal to men but disagreed that their participation alone would make the state more just. “To assume, therefore, that she would succeed in purifying something which is not susceptible of purification, is to credit her with supernatural powers.”[183] Goldman was also critical of Zionism, which she saw as another failed experiment in state control.[184]

  • DMBFFF@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What do you love about Lemmy, compared to Reddit?
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    15 days ago

    I think I told a mod there that if I was un-banned I’d refrain about talking about TG issues in that community

    I’ve heard nothing about it since.

    There’s at least some subreddits that I can speak more freely on about this issue, such as https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism and as a result I’ll self-censor more here and speak more freely elsewhere.

    Whatever my quibbles, FWIW, again, I don’t see myself as transphobic. I neither hate, nor fear the TG. The DOI refers to the pursuit of happiness, and if TG’ism results in happiness for them, then good, they should pursue it. They have a right to it, and I feel free to defend that right. Indeed, skills in procedures in their therapies and surgeries might help humanity elsewhere. I don’t have a problem with them reading books to children, and reading books to children is good for children. As a man, I’m largely indifferent to transwomen in women’s sports (as I am of sports in general) and washrooms, and pretty well fear nothing from transmen as usurpers of my masculinity (such as it is). Pronouns? The nice thing about English is that the 1st and 2nd person pronouns are already gender neutral, and while I don’t like the singular “they” (and its variants), it’s because I like specificity in plurality and not because I oppose gender neutrality. Indeed, I occasionally use the neologism wt:thon. There are some transwomen whose videos I enjoy greatly, such as ContraPoints, the one in Philosophy Tube, and Jessie Gender (the one who talks a lot about Star Trek). Most critics of TG I see on YouTube have their own flaws. I’m not a fan of JK Rowling, though I never was into Harry Potter. As for Germaine Greer, while she had/has made her contributions over the decades, she isn’t the last word on feminism (I don’t think anyone is). If I “get fooled” by a TW thinking thon is a ciswoman, I don’t get mad, I metaphorically tip my hat at thons effort, such as this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu-t3tqDyAY . Well done, Ms Cain!

    To any TG reading this, I readily admit to much ignorance. Don’t take my words to heart if they bother you: they are merely the thoughts of a pseudonymous member of a few internet sites such as Lemmy. I intend no offense and wish you well and success in your expression.