Re: How Women Got To Vote OT

[Guest guest]

I find this particularly two-faced of , whose wife was effectively President in his place during his illness. The men in power knew (and still know, actually) that if they allow women to be truly equal they would be giving up much of their power.

And if women don't vote, we are playing right into their hands. And if women vote without studying the issues and what each candidate truly stands for...we are playing right into their hands.

Did you know that when women vote for President they often vote for the man (so far, LOL) that is the most attractive physically? The cutest? What are we...in grade school?

Sorry, but this is subject close to my heart....they lowered the voting age to 18 and I was proud to be a part of a group that was active in getting petitions signed and in going to various local political gatherings (some with my father who was the political chairman of our local teachers association) and writing letters to help the legislators come to the decision to do that. I didn't get to vote until I was 19 because my birthday is in Oct. Over the years I've missed a few local elections due to working long hours. And I'm ashamed of some of the decisions I made in the voting booth....we all change our take on things as we age and politicians are experts at getting us to think they believe in one thing and then showing their true stripes after they are in office.

I'm so proud of my great-grandmother for being the one of the first woman jurors in our county, my grandmother for serving as committee woman and various other positions over the years, my parents for NEVER missing an election, and especially my daughter for choosing to run for office and being so politically active and my son for voting regularly. If we don't vote we give up the right to complain about the kind of government we have....LOL, and these days THAT's an extremely important right.

Kathy

How Women Got To Vote OT

I had to share this! Of the things I am ashamed of in my life, the most horrid is the fact that my oldest daughter doesn't "waste" her time to vote!

I do vote but admit that I do not know much about the history behind how women got the right to vote. A friend sent the following article to me. I hope you do not mind if I pass it on. I would love to see this movie!

How Women Got To VoteA short history lesson on the privilege of voting...The women were innocent and defenseless. And bythe end of the night, theywere barely alive. Forty prison guards wieldingclubs and their warden'sblessing went on a rampage against the 33 womenwrongly convicted of"obstructing sidewalk traffic." They beat LucyBurn, chained her hands tothe cell bars above her head and left her hangingfor the night, bleedingand gasping for air. They hurled Dora into adark cell, smashed herhead against an iron bed and knocked her out cold.Her cellmate, Alice Cosu,thought was dead and suffered a heartattack. Additional affidavitsdescribe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating,choking, slamming,pinching, twisting and kicking the women.Thus unfolded the "Night of Terror" on Nov. 15,1917, when the warden at theOccoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guardsto teach a lesson to thesuffragists imprisoned there because they dared topicket Woodrow 'sWhite House for the right to vote. For weeks, thewomen's only water camefrom an open pail. Their food--all of it colorlessslop--was infested withworms. When one of the leaders, Alice ,embarked on a hunger strike,they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down herthroat and poured liquidinto her until she vomited. She was tortured likethis for weeks until wordwas smuggled out to the press.So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote thisyear because--why,exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get towork? Our vote doesn'tmatter? It's raining? Last week, I went to asparsely attended screening ofHBO's new movie "Iron Jawed Angels." It is agraphic depiction of the battlethese women waged so that I could pull the curtainat the polling booth andhave my say. I am ashamed to say I needed thereminder. All these yearslater, voter registration is still my passion. Butthe actual act of votinghad become less personal for me, more rote.ly, voting often felt morelike an obligation than a privilege. Sometimes itwas inconvenient. Myfriend , who is my age and studied women'shistory, saw the HBO movie,too. When she stopped by my desk to talk about it,she looked angry. Shewas--with herself."One thought kept coming back to me as I watchedthat movie," she said."What would those women think of the way I use--ordon't use--my right tovote? All of us take it for granted now, not justyounger women, but thoseof us who did seek to learn." The right to vote,she said, had becomevaluable to her "all over again."HBO will run the movie periodically beforereleasing it on video and DVD. Iwish all history, social studies and governmentteachers would include themovie in their curriculum. I want it shown onBunko night, too, and anywhereelse women gather. I realize this isn't our usualidea of socializing, butwe are not voting in the numbers that we shouldbe, and I think a littleshock therapy is in order. It is jarring to watchWoodrow and hiscronies try to persuade a psychiatrist to declareAlice insane so thatshe could be permanently institutionalized. And itis inspiring to watch thedoctor refuse. Alice was strong, he said, andbrave. That didn't makeher crazy. The doctor admonished the men: "Couragein women is oftenmistaken for insanity."Please pass this on to all the women you know. Weneed to get out and voteand use this right that was fought so hard for bythese very courageouswomen.

Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com

[Guest guest]

I find this particularly two-faced of , whose wife was effectively President in his place during his illness. The men in power knew (and still know, actually) that if they allow women to be truly equal they would be giving up much of their power.

And if women don't vote, we are playing right into their hands. And if women vote without studying the issues and what each candidate truly stands for...we are playing right into their hands.

Did you know that when women vote for President they often vote for the man (so far, LOL) that is the most attractive physically? The cutest? What are we...in grade school?

Sorry, but this is subject close to my heart....they lowered the voting age to 18 and I was proud to be a part of a group that was active in getting petitions signed and in going to various local political gatherings (some with my father who was the political chairman of our local teachers association) and writing letters to help the legislators come to the decision to do that. I didn't get to vote until I was 19 because my birthday is in Oct. Over the years I've missed a few local elections due to working long hours. And I'm ashamed of some of the decisions I made in the voting booth....we all change our take on things as we age and politicians are experts at getting us to think they believe in one thing and then showing their true stripes after they are in office.

I'm so proud of my great-grandmother for being the one of the first woman jurors in our county, my grandmother for serving as committee woman and various other positions over the years, my parents for NEVER missing an election, and especially my daughter for choosing to run for office and being so politically active and my son for voting regularly. If we don't vote we give up the right to complain about the kind of government we have....LOL, and these days THAT's an extremely important right.

Kathy

How Women Got To Vote OT

I had to share this! Of the things I am ashamed of in my life, the most horrid is the fact that my oldest daughter doesn't "waste" her time to vote!

I do vote but admit that I do not know much about the history behind how women got the right to vote. A friend sent the following article to me. I hope you do not mind if I pass it on. I would love to see this movie!

How Women Got To VoteA short history lesson on the privilege of voting...The women were innocent and defenseless. And bythe end of the night, theywere barely alive. Forty prison guards wieldingclubs and their warden'sblessing went on a rampage against the 33 womenwrongly convicted of"obstructing sidewalk traffic." They beat LucyBurn, chained her hands tothe cell bars above her head and left her hangingfor the night, bleedingand gasping for air. They hurled Dora into adark cell, smashed herhead against an iron bed and knocked her out cold.Her cellmate, Alice Cosu,thought was dead and suffered a heartattack. Additional affidavitsdescribe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating,choking, slamming,pinching, twisting and kicking the women.Thus unfolded the "Night of Terror" on Nov. 15,1917, when the warden at theOccoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guardsto teach a lesson to thesuffragists imprisoned there because they dared topicket Woodrow 'sWhite House for the right to vote. For weeks, thewomen's only water camefrom an open pail. Their food--all of it colorlessslop--was infested withworms. When one of the leaders, Alice ,embarked on a hunger strike,they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down herthroat and poured liquidinto her until she vomited. She was tortured likethis for weeks until wordwas smuggled out to the press.So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote thisyear because--why,exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get towork? Our vote doesn'tmatter? It's raining? Last week, I went to asparsely attended screening ofHBO's new movie "Iron Jawed Angels." It is agraphic depiction of the battlethese women waged so that I could pull the curtainat the polling booth andhave my say. I am ashamed to say I needed thereminder. All these yearslater, voter registration is still my passion. Butthe actual act of votinghad become less personal for me, more rote.ly, voting often felt morelike an obligation than a privilege. Sometimes itwas inconvenient. Myfriend , who is my age and studied women'shistory, saw the HBO movie,too. When she stopped by my desk to talk about it,she looked angry. Shewas--with herself."One thought kept coming back to me as I watchedthat movie," she said."What would those women think of the way I use--ordon't use--my right tovote? All of us take it for granted now, not justyounger women, but thoseof us who did seek to learn." The right to vote,she said, had becomevaluable to her "all over again."HBO will run the movie periodically beforereleasing it on video and DVD. Iwish all history, social studies and governmentteachers would include themovie in their curriculum. I want it shown onBunko night, too, and anywhereelse women gather. I realize this isn't our usualidea of socializing, butwe are not voting in the numbers that we shouldbe, and I think a littleshock therapy is in order. It is jarring to watchWoodrow and hiscronies try to persuade a psychiatrist to declareAlice insane so thatshe could be permanently institutionalized. And itis inspiring to watch thedoctor refuse. Alice was strong, he said, andbrave. That didn't makeher crazy. The doctor admonished the men: "Couragein women is oftenmistaken for insanity."Please pass this on to all the women you know. Weneed to get out and voteand use this right that was fought so hard for bythese very courageouswomen.

Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com

[Guest guest]

Well said!

How Women Got To Vote OT

I had to share this! Of the things I am ashamed of in my life, the most horrid is the fact that my oldest daughter doesn't "waste" her time to vote!

I do vote but admit that I do not know much about the history behind how women got the right to vote. A friend sent the following article to me. I hope you do not mind if I pass it on. I would love to see this movie!

How Women Got To VoteA short history lesson on the privilege of voting...The women were innocent and defenseless. And bythe end of the night, theywere barely alive. Forty prison guards wieldingclubs and their warden'sblessing went on a rampage against the 33 womenwrongly convicted of"obstructing sidewalk traffic." They beat LucyBurn, chained her hands tothe cell bars above her head and left her hangingfor the night, bleedingand gasping for air. They hurled Dora into adark cell, smashed herhead against an iron bed and knocked her out cold.Her cellmate, Alice Cosu,thought was dead and suffered a heartattack. Additional affidavitsdescribe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating,choking, slamming,pinching, twisting and kicking the women.Thus unfolded the "Night of Terror" on Nov. 15,1917, when the warden at theOccoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guardsto teach a lesson to thesuffragists imprisoned there because they dared topicket Woodrow 'sWhite House for the right to vote. For weeks, thewomen's only water camefrom an open pail. Their food--all of it colorlessslop--was infested withworms. When one of the leaders, Alice ,embarked on a hunger strike,they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down herthroat and poured liquidinto her until she vomited. She was tortured likethis for weeks until wordwas smuggled out to the press.So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote thisyear because--why,exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get towork? Our vote doesn'tmatter? It's raining? Last week, I went to asparsely attended screening ofHBO's new movie "Iron Jawed Angels." It is agraphic depiction of the battlethese women waged so that I could pull the curtainat the polling booth andhave my say. I am ashamed to say I needed thereminder. All these yearslater, voter registration is still my passion. Butthe actual act of votinghad become less personal for me, more rote.ly, voting often felt morelike an obligation than a privilege. Sometimes itwas inconvenient. Myfriend , who is my age and studied women'shistory, saw the HBO movie,too. When she stopped by my desk to talk about it,she looked angry. Shewas--with herself."One thought kept coming back to me as I watchedthat movie," she said."What would those women think of the way I use--ordon't use--my right tovote? All of us take it for granted now, not justyounger women, but thoseof us who did seek to learn." The right to vote,she said, had becomevaluable to her "all over again."HBO will run the movie periodically beforereleasing it on video and DVD. Iwish all history, social studies and governmentteachers would include themovie in their curriculum. I want it shown onBunko night, too, and anywhereelse women gather. I realize this isn't our usualidea of socializing, butwe are not voting in the numbers that we shouldbe, and I think a littleshock therapy is in order. It is jarring to watchWoodrow and hiscronies try to persuade a psychiatrist to declareAlice insane so thatshe could be permanently institutionalized. And itis inspiring to watch thedoctor refuse. Alice was strong, he said, andbrave. That didn't makeher crazy. The doctor admonished the men: "Couragein women is oftenmistaken for insanity."Please pass this on to all the women you know. Weneed to get out and voteand use this right that was fought so hard for bythese very courageouswomen.

Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com

[Guest guest]

Well said!

How Women Got To Vote OT

I had to share this! Of the things I am ashamed of in my life, the most horrid is the fact that my oldest daughter doesn't "waste" her time to vote!

I do vote but admit that I do not know much about the history behind how women got the right to vote. A friend sent the following article to me. I hope you do not mind if I pass it on. I would love to see this movie!

How Women Got To VoteA short history lesson on the privilege of voting...The women were innocent and defenseless. And bythe end of the night, theywere barely alive. Forty prison guards wieldingclubs and their warden'sblessing went on a rampage against the 33 womenwrongly convicted of"obstructing sidewalk traffic." They beat LucyBurn, chained her hands tothe cell bars above her head and left her hangingfor the night, bleedingand gasping for air. They hurled Dora into adark cell, smashed herhead against an iron bed and knocked her out cold.Her cellmate, Alice Cosu,thought was dead and suffered a heartattack. Additional affidavitsdescribe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating,choking, slamming,pinching, twisting and kicking the women.Thus unfolded the "Night of Terror" on Nov. 15,1917, when the warden at theOccoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guardsto teach a lesson to thesuffragists imprisoned there because they dared topicket Woodrow 'sWhite House for the right to vote. For weeks, thewomen's only water camefrom an open pail. Their food--all of it colorlessslop--was infested withworms. When one of the leaders, Alice ,embarked on a hunger strike,they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down herthroat and poured liquidinto her until she vomited. She was tortured likethis for weeks until wordwas smuggled out to the press.So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote thisyear because--why,exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get towork? Our vote doesn'tmatter? It's raining? Last week, I went to asparsely attended screening ofHBO's new movie "Iron Jawed Angels." It is agraphic depiction of the battlethese women waged so that I could pull the curtainat the polling booth andhave my say. I am ashamed to say I needed thereminder. All these yearslater, voter registration is still my passion. Butthe actual act of votinghad become less personal for me, more rote.ly, voting often felt morelike an obligation than a privilege. Sometimes itwas inconvenient. Myfriend , who is my age and studied women'shistory, saw the HBO movie,too. When she stopped by my desk to talk about it,she looked angry. Shewas--with herself."One thought kept coming back to me as I watchedthat movie," she said."What would those women think of the way I use--ordon't use--my right tovote? All of us take it for granted now, not justyounger women, but thoseof us who did seek to learn." The right to vote,she said, had becomevaluable to her "all over again."HBO will run the movie periodically beforereleasing it on video and DVD. Iwish all history, social studies and governmentteachers would include themovie in their curriculum. I want it shown onBunko night, too, and anywhereelse women gather. I realize this isn't our usualidea of socializing, butwe are not voting in the numbers that we shouldbe, and I think a littleshock therapy is in order. It is jarring to watchWoodrow and hiscronies try to persuade a psychiatrist to declareAlice insane so thatshe could be permanently institutionalized. And itis inspiring to watch thedoctor refuse. Alice was strong, he said, andbrave. That didn't makeher crazy. The doctor admonished the men: "Couragein women is oftenmistaken for insanity."Please pass this on to all the women you know. Weneed to get out and voteand use this right that was fought so hard for bythese very courageouswomen.

Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com

[Guest guest]

Thanks, Christy!

Kathy

How Women Got To Vote OT

I had to share this! Of the things I am ashamed of in my life, the most horrid is the fact that my oldest daughter doesn't "waste" her time to vote!

I do vote but admit that I do not know much about the history behind how women got the right to vote. A friend sent the following article to me. I hope you do not mind if I pass it on. I would love to see this movie!

How Women Got To VoteA short history lesson on the privilege of voting...The women were innocent and defenseless. And bythe end of the night, theywere barely alive. Forty prison guards wieldingclubs and their warden'sblessing went on a rampage against the 33 womenwrongly convicted of"obstructing sidewalk traffic." They beat LucyBurn, chained her hands tothe cell bars above her head and left her hangingfor the night, bleedingand gasping for air. They hurled Dora into adark cell, smashed herhead against an iron bed and knocked her out cold.Her cellmate, Alice Cosu,thought was dead and suffered a heartattack. Additional affidavitsdescribe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating,choking, slamming,pinching, twisting and kicking the women.Thus unfolded the "Night of Terror" on Nov. 15,1917, when the warden at theOccoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guardsto teach a lesson to thesuffragists imprisoned there because they dared topicket Woodrow 'sWhite House for the right to vote. For weeks, thewomen's only water camefrom an open pail. Their food--all of it colorlessslop--was infested withworms. When one of the leaders, Alice ,embarked on a hunger strike,they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down herthroat and poured liquidinto her until she vomited. She was tortured likethis for weeks until wordwas smuggled out to the press.So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote thisyear because--why,exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get towork? Our vote doesn'tmatter? It's raining? Last week, I went to asparsely attended screening ofHBO's new movie "Iron Jawed Angels." It is agraphic depiction of the battlethese women waged so that I could pull the curtainat the polling booth andhave my say. I am ashamed to say I needed thereminder. All these yearslater, voter registration is still my passion. Butthe actual act of votinghad become less personal for me, more rote.ly, voting often felt morelike an obligation than a privilege. Sometimes itwas inconvenient. Myfriend , who is my age and studied women'shistory, saw the HBO movie,too. When she stopped by my desk to talk about it,she looked angry. Shewas--with herself."One thought kept coming back to me as I watchedthat movie," she said."What would those women think of the way I use--ordon't use--my right tovote? All of us take it for granted now, not justyounger women, but thoseof us who did seek to learn." The right to vote,she said, had becomevaluable to her "all over again."HBO will run the movie periodically beforereleasing it on video and DVD. Iwish all history, social studies and governmentteachers would include themovie in their curriculum. I want it shown onBunko night, too, and anywhereelse women gather. I realize this isn't our usualidea of socializing, butwe are not voting in the numbers that we shouldbe, and I think a littleshock therapy is in order. It is jarring to watchWoodrow and hiscronies try to persuade a psychiatrist to declareAlice insane so thatshe could be permanently institutionalized. And itis inspiring to watch thedoctor refuse. Alice was strong, he said, andbrave. That didn't makeher crazy. The doctor admonished the men: "Couragein women is oftenmistaken for insanity."Please pass this on to all the women you know. Weneed to get out and voteand use this right that was fought so hard for bythese very courageouswomen.

Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com

Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com

[Guest guest]

Thanks, Christy!

Kathy

How Women Got To Vote OT

I had to share this! Of the things I am ashamed of in my life, the most horrid is the fact that my oldest daughter doesn't "waste" her time to vote!

I do vote but admit that I do not know much about the history behind how women got the right to vote. A friend sent the following article to me. I hope you do not mind if I pass it on. I would love to see this movie!

How Women Got To VoteA short history lesson on the privilege of voting...The women were innocent and defenseless. And bythe end of the night, theywere barely alive. Forty prison guards wieldingclubs and their warden'sblessing went on a rampage against the 33 womenwrongly convicted of"obstructing sidewalk traffic." They beat LucyBurn, chained her hands tothe cell bars above her head and left her hangingfor the night, bleedingand gasping for air. They hurled Dora into adark cell, smashed herhead against an iron bed and knocked her out cold.Her cellmate, Alice Cosu,thought was dead and suffered a heartattack. Additional affidavitsdescribe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating,choking, slamming,pinching, twisting and kicking the women.Thus unfolded the "Night of Terror" on Nov. 15,1917, when the warden at theOccoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guardsto teach a lesson to thesuffragists imprisoned there because they dared topicket Woodrow 'sWhite House for the right to vote. For weeks, thewomen's only water camefrom an open pail. Their food--all of it colorlessslop--was infested withworms. When one of the leaders, Alice ,embarked on a hunger strike,they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down herthroat and poured liquidinto her until she vomited. She was tortured likethis for weeks until wordwas smuggled out to the press.So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote thisyear because--why,exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get towork? Our vote doesn'tmatter? It's raining? Last week, I went to asparsely attended screening ofHBO's new movie "Iron Jawed Angels." It is agraphic depiction of the battlethese women waged so that I could pull the curtainat the polling booth andhave my say. I am ashamed to say I needed thereminder. All these yearslater, voter registration is still my passion. Butthe actual act of votinghad become less personal for me, more rote.ly, voting often felt morelike an obligation than a privilege. Sometimes itwas inconvenient. Myfriend , who is my age and studied women'shistory, saw the HBO movie,too. When she stopped by my desk to talk about it,she looked angry. Shewas--with herself."One thought kept coming back to me as I watchedthat movie," she said."What would those women think of the way I use--ordon't use--my right tovote? All of us take it for granted now, not justyounger women, but thoseof us who did seek to learn." The right to vote,she said, had becomevaluable to her "all over again."HBO will run the movie periodically beforereleasing it on video and DVD. Iwish all history, social studies and governmentteachers would include themovie in their curriculum. I want it shown onBunko night, too, and anywhereelse women gather. I realize this isn't our usualidea of socializing, butwe are not voting in the numbers that we shouldbe, and I think a littleshock therapy is in order. It is jarring to watchWoodrow and hiscronies try to persuade a psychiatrist to declareAlice insane so thatshe could be permanently institutionalized. And itis inspiring to watch thedoctor refuse. Alice was strong, he said, andbrave. That didn't makeher crazy. The doctor admonished the men: "Couragein women is oftenmistaken for insanity."Please pass this on to all the women you know. Weneed to get out and voteand use this right that was fought so hard for bythese very courageouswomen.

Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com

Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com

[Guest guest]

Thanks, Christy!

Kathy

How Women Got To Vote OT

I had to share this! Of the things I am ashamed of in my life, the most horrid is the fact that my oldest daughter doesn't "waste" her time to vote!

I do vote but admit that I do not know much about the history behind how women got the right to vote. A friend sent the following article to me. I hope you do not mind if I pass it on. I would love to see this movie!

How Women Got To VoteA short history lesson on the privilege of voting...The women were innocent and defenseless. And bythe end of the night, theywere barely alive. Forty prison guards wieldingclubs and their warden'sblessing went on a rampage against the 33 womenwrongly convicted of"obstructing sidewalk traffic." They beat LucyBurn, chained her hands tothe cell bars above her head and left her hangingfor the night, bleedingand gasping for air. They hurled Dora into adark cell, smashed herhead against an iron bed and knocked her out cold.Her cellmate, Alice Cosu,thought was dead and suffered a heartattack. Additional affidavitsdescribe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating,choking, slamming,pinching, twisting and kicking the women.Thus unfolded the "Night of Terror" on Nov. 15,1917, when the warden at theOccoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guardsto teach a lesson to thesuffragists imprisoned there because they dared topicket Woodrow 'sWhite House for the right to vote. For weeks, thewomen's only water camefrom an open pail. Their food--all of it colorlessslop--was infested withworms. When one of the leaders, Alice ,embarked on a hunger strike,they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down herthroat and poured liquidinto her until she vomited. She was tortured likethis for weeks until wordwas smuggled out to the press.So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote thisyear because--why,exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get towork? Our vote doesn'tmatter? It's raining? Last week, I went to asparsely attended screening ofHBO's new movie "Iron Jawed Angels." It is agraphic depiction of the battlethese women waged so that I could pull the curtainat the polling booth andhave my say. I am ashamed to say I needed thereminder. All these yearslater, voter registration is still my passion. Butthe actual act of votinghad become less personal for me, more rote.ly, voting often felt morelike an obligation than a privilege. Sometimes itwas inconvenient. Myfriend , who is my age and studied women'shistory, saw the HBO movie,too. When she stopped by my desk to talk about it,she looked angry. Shewas--with herself."One thought kept coming back to me as I watchedthat movie," she said."What would those women think of the way I use--ordon't use--my right tovote? All of us take it for granted now, not justyounger women, but thoseof us who did seek to learn." The right to vote,she said, had becomevaluable to her "all over again."HBO will run the movie periodically beforereleasing it on video and DVD. Iwish all history, social studies and governmentteachers would include themovie in their curriculum. I want it shown onBunko night, too, and anywhereelse women gather. I realize this isn't our usualidea of socializing, butwe are not voting in the numbers that we shouldbe, and I think a littleshock therapy is in order. It is jarring to watchWoodrow and hiscronies try to persuade a psychiatrist to declareAlice insane so thatshe could be permanently institutionalized. And itis inspiring to watch thedoctor refuse. Alice was strong, he said, andbrave. That didn't makeher crazy. The doctor admonished the men: "Couragein women is oftenmistaken for insanity."Please pass this on to all the women you know. Weneed to get out and voteand use this right that was fought so hard for bythese very courageouswomen.

Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com

Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com

[Guest guest]

Excellent article in the current issue of Bust magazine. Suffragist City. If you don't want to pay for the mag read it at the store--if you can't find the mag--i'll copy it and mail it to anyone who asks--send me your snail mail offlist so i don't have to search for it.

Also HBO's Iron Jawed Angels was an excellent movie. It is out or soon to be out on DVD.

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