Same shit different century.

[Secret-Agent-Brunch]

Same shit different century.

Discussion

[Sablesweetheart]

I still really want to make a historically accurate suffragette ensemble, but in pride colors….

[shaodyn]

I like to say that we’re almost 1/4 of the way through the 21st century but people’s attitudes toward women haven’t found the 18th century yet. On some level, society still thinks women exist purely to have babies.

[GroundbreakingTax259]

American suffragists (the term they preferred, for reasons which will become clear) were cool and all, but the British suffragettes were on another level entirely, with a group of women who enacted a campaign of bombings, arson, and other forms 9f direct action from 1912-1914, when all politics paused due to the war.

(Americans didn’t want to be associated with them, hence the different name.)

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[Meretseger]

I’d just like to caution everyone wanting to make a suffragette costume to make sure you are vocal in being inclusive. Miss Snappydragon has a good video I’ve linked on how many people the overall movement excluded in order to get some women the right to vote

https://youtu.be/xYo6_cXXy1c

Editing to add for clarity that my knowledge on this is for the American movement excluding people of color.