Was watching the Daily Show last night; the celeb being interviewed was talking about her campaign work.
She said something to the effect that it was a shame many eligible voters don't take advantage of their right to vote; and the biggest group of people who don't vote, she said, are young women.
{Whether this was due to a lack of meaningful choices for politically conscious women or just yer plain garden~variety political apathy she didn't pursue; she only said she thought voting would have to be "sexed~up" to make it more appealing to the younger audience.}
And I thought, wow... not less than a hundred years ago, women suffered violent force~feeding during their prison hunger strikes for the sake of being recognized as persons with the right to vote.
All those men who argued so vehemently against it, if only they could have known; they would have chuckled quietly amongst themselves and said to each other, with a nod and a wink, ahhh, let's just give 'em the right to vote. What does it matter? You and I know they'll never bother; they're simply too passive by nature to really be effective.
Who knows? Perhaps, even without the benefit of foresight, perhaps they really did say things like that.
Posted by edgar at August 6, 2004 09:26 AM