Showing posts with label Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

A continued disservice?

I read an excellent column in the Courier-Journal this morning entitled "Listen to Hillary, not the silence of Ellen James," by Pam Platt. In the column she discussed how the women's suffrage movement, that eventually gained women the right to vote, started long before the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920.

If women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony had been as easily discouraged as it seems some of Hillary's followers apparently are, we'd probably still be working toward gaining the right for women to vote.

As the column pointed out, Hillary's supporters can do as the women in The World According to Garp and cut their tongues out, i.e. vote for John McCain in pique, or they can continue to strive to see a woman elected President!

As I am sure everyone has heard- Rome was not built in a day. Women's equality has evolved over a long period of time, and is still doing so.

Don't blow it now, ladies!