I recently came across an article on vintage Valentine postcards that featured nasty anti suffrage beliefs of those times.
Being anti suffrage, it meant mostly nasty remarks against females. Declared mostly from the male perspective, of course.
Glorified goddess or deified demon? Angel or temptress? Wife or whore? How the world defines its women throughout the ages has not changed radically enough.
Leslie Hume argues that the First World War changed the popular mood:
The women's contribution to the war effort challenged the notion of women's physical and mental inferiority and made it more difficult to maintain that women were, both by constitution and temperament, unfit to vote. If women could work in munitions factories, it seemed both ungrateful and illogical to deny them a place in the polling booth. But the vote was much more than simply a reward for war work; the point was that women's participation in the war helped to dispel the fears that surrounded women's entry into the public arena.
Sadly, once the crisis passed, folks were quick to forget our contribution. Would the world rather keep women in the privacy of their homes - safe and sound?
We would all be better off honoring our female energy as we were meant to respect Mother Earth.
Being accountable in balance and harmony.
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