Iron Jawed Angels - My Heroes!

[MaineDem]

I'm typing through my tears as I just watched the HBO movie about the women's suffrage movement.

I take things much too for granted. These women fought and suffered so I and my sisters and daughters can have a voice in our government. So that we can cast our votes in elections. So that we can have a representative voice in legislatures and on judicial benches. Hell, women weren't even allowed on juries and, therefore, couldn't get a fair trial in front of a jury of their peers.

It's so easy to forget that what rights we have now were not granted easily. They were not granted without the blood, sweat, and tears of thousands of women (and men) who saw that injustice was being done.

I'll be damned - I will be DAMNED - if I am going to sit around and let others decide things for me this election. Alice Paul and the women of the Suffrage movement deserve to be honored by women taking their places in the voting booths around the country.

A bunch of men in suits posed for a picture as the President signed a bill that reached into my uterus and made it illegal for me to make a decision about my own body. It's easy to sit around and not fight for the right of women to chose their own future. I won't just sit around.

This movie touched me in a good way. I will never forget what those women have given my sisters and me.

[mitchtv]

1. maybe there should be

a National Gay Party to campaign against any Dem who supports the FMA? I confess as I watched the movie , I kept thinking that. (not to hijack your thread, I just kept thinking)

[Eurobabe]

2. Here, here!

I agree, that was an excellent film by HBO...I had no idea of the real story behind the Suffrage Act. (I fell asleep in American History)

I watched IJA last Monday evening. My friend's daughter worked on the scenes from Richmond, and she was an extra in the crowds. Said it was a fabulous experience.

It really hits you how whacked this country is when you consider that women ONLY received the right to vote in the 20s and it took another 40 years after that to extend the vote to blacks.

Absolutely mindboggling, eh?

[Cassandra]

3. Blacks had the vote after the Civil War

Males, anyway. The Voting Rights Act was to ensure they could actually exercises their rights without the poll taxes, literacy tests and other roadblocks to voting common until that time.