Being Called a Feminist – updated 2017
Does that voting booth look a bit dated? It’s a voting booth style that saw American women for the first time, in 1920. That was 90 years ago.
It’s hard to believe that not only didn’t women have the right to vote only 90 years ago but guess what? It was preached from churches, preached in congress, preached in the marketplace, preached in the home, that women weren’t CAPABLE of voting intelligently. And, not only men thought that, some women thought that too and were against having their own right to vote. I am not joking.
Who changed the mind of America? Was it politicians? preachers? theologians? businessmen? No, it was feminists. It was women who fought for what was right. Who argued and protested and were arrested and condemned and shunned and labeled and destroyed in some cases.
Don’t be fooled into thinking that type of thinking is long gone. It isn’t, and it will creep back as long as people, men and women, don’t see it for what it is. Fathers, are you teaching your daughters to be strong and to know themselves, or are you teaching them to be a doormat? Mothers, are you teaching your daughters to respect themselves and to know their value, or are you teaching them to be prostitutes of one stripe or another?
Drawing and Commentary © Marty Coleman
“People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.” Dame Rebecca West, 1892-1983, English Author Read about her amazing life and career here.