Actually, I want to focus here on the anti-Suffragette backlash. Around the turn of the 1920th century, women advocating for the equal right to vote and to get elected in western democracies were often depicted in a negative and derogative fashion by both male and female opponents of equal suffrage. Here are a few examples:
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(source; Suffragettes on hunger strike were occasionally force-fed, see here; ICWT stands for International Council of Women)
More on the suffragette movement here. More collections of images here.
It would appear that having a penis is not strictly necessary when problem solving.
I would say it can even get in the way.
The real Issue in the UK was a “Women without a Vote”, or not given the right to vote, implied women had no independent viewpoint’s worth listening to, or worthy of being taking into account. In some respects it inferred they were lesser citizens which at the time was true. With the benefit of hindsight perhaps the leaders of the British Suffragette movement – if they had been Members of Parliament – they could have played a huge part in preventing the political madness of WW1. America and New Zealand led the way in allowing women the vote.
I would edit your opening to read “..turn of the 20th century” which was the early 1900s. The turn of the 19th century was the early 1800s.
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