That isn't 100% true...
The right to vote for women owed just as much to WW1 as it did to people chaining themselves to railings. It was then that women emerged from the home and drove buses, made all the munitions and basically did all the jobs that they were thought incapable of that made people think they might just have the sense to vote sensibly too.
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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Sun 19 Aug 2012, 17:21,
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Well,
You implied the right to vote was a result of protest; I say it was more down to circumstances.
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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Mon 20 Aug 2012, 11:23,
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yes but the actions which proved women where equal
backed up a concept which had been brought to the pubic attention through a series of protests and attention grabbing stunts.... the mouth opened first and then the body followed through on the promises...
so owing a debt of gratitude, or at least supporting the people who where involved in that process is the right thing to do, they where just as much a part of it, being the vocal genesis of it.
so my point still stands.
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