This Group Of FEMINISTS Were TERRORISTS
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the early women's movement in the 1800s and early 1900s, the anti-suffrage movement, and the women who fought for women's suffrage. We also discuss the lack of women in the suffrage movement at the turn of the 20th century, and why the first woman to vote was not a feminist.
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and and that also comes out of all these religious and philosophical ideas so
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basically you just had these intellectual circles in the mid-1800s and they start to get more and
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more liberal with pushing women to the front and having them be speakers and having them be writers
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in the united states we had margaret fuller who was probably the first the first person
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writing that was popular who talked about gender abolition so she she was part of the transcendental
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club and felt like communism and and humanity moving to into the new age we need equality we
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need to get rid of gender ideas we need to stop limiting humanity with gender roles so these ideas
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are pretty old this is this idea of uh gender abolition which sounds really new to most of us
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like oh it only kind of popped up in the last 10 years that actually comes out of the 1840s there
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were already people saying this yeah wow so and so when women it got the right to vote was it the late
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1800s or early 1900 1920 ish is right in the united states it was 1920 in england they kind of phased
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it in but right around the same time so i'd say around right around 1920. so i heard that in the
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1800s like they were like the women's movement was planning and associations and that they were
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actually like no like they weren't known as a peaceful movement at all like could you tell me
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more about that sure yeah a lot of women who were in the suffrage movement were basically terrorists
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so they would do bombings poisonings assassinations they would um you know burn down buildings put rocks
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through storefronts um and they would get arrested quite often and put in prison and then they would
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go on hunger strikes now this is something that i hear all the time because feminists who really hate
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me will say you wouldn't even be allowed to be on the internet talking right now if it weren't for the
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brave women who came before you and made it too yes well but the first female it doesn't make sense
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because the first female millionaire was like the she was in the early 1900s or late 1800s you don't
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talk about 1800s yes yeah yeah it was um that lady they made the movie about you know i'm talking about
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yeah there's there were actually a handful of them um and one of the first one of the wealthiest women
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who'd funded suffrage uh she's in the book her name was elva vanderbilt belmont so she married into
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the vanderbilt family and got one of the first ever divorces that wealthy people had in the united
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states she got a ton of money out of that divorce settlement and this was she alleged that her
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spouse was cheating got a divorce got a huge divorce settlement inherited a bunch of properties from
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this man's family from a vanderbilt then she married his best friend typical feminist kind of move
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right married the best friend who's also wealthy he was from the belmont family and they were like
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bankers and uh financial advisors to the wild again did she do it again she did well he died
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he drank himself to death and died so she got yet another inheritance and became i think she was at
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the time the world's wealthiest woman and so she she said after that she was done with men and she was
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going to dedicate the rest of her life to feminism and the suffrage movement and she funded most of it
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so when these women would get put in prison for doing terrorist activities she would bail them out she
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would put up their bail money and get them out of jail and help them reorganize get back out there and
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continue doing this stuff and again this is even at this time we're talking turn of the century right
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around 1900 1910s um suffrage was still deeply unpopular with women only about four percent of
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women and all of the like straw polls that they would do at the time or um where they're doing like a
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survey to ask women if they even want suffrage on the ballot at that time from all the data i could find
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it was about four percent of women who were interested they had much bigger membership in anti-suffrage groups
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way more women members than they had in pro-suffrage groups um and i'm working on another book right now
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about what the anti-suffrage women said because they put out a lot of writings and pamphlets and
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political tracks as well and they have really great solid reasoning for not wanting the vote that okay that
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was what switched my opinion on voting because i always thought there was like three waves of fem that's
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always what you hear right there's three waves of feminism and like the second and third were bad
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but the first was good until i heard on like a crowder episode that like women didn't want the
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right to vote so i was like well why wouldn't they want that like you know it's not like i'm like like
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they had to have had a reason right right so then i started looking at like i started looking up some
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anti-suffrage like writings and this woman was writing how it was like the breakdown of the family and how
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you're supposed to like two are supposed to be one flesh and i was like day that's kind of what
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happened it is what happened saying this is going to be the breakdown of the family this can't happen
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i'm like well dead like the based woman like she was right and so that's when i realized it wasn't like
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what i thought no it's definitely not what anyone thinks we've all been sold like a certain packaged
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version of feminism and the reason for that because you might be asking yourself okay there's the
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mainline history of all this stuff that everyone's kind of heard what makes me think that rachel has
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just like found all this stuff that nobody else knows well the reason is because in the in uh the
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late 60s when the ford foundation and the rockefeller foundation literally created women's studies that
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was not a field of study until like 1970 they created it for the purposes of continuing this
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social engineering that they were already working on and once that happened and they gave tons of
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funding to major universities to create women's studies departments um they basically became the
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gatekeepers of all the history so the margaret sanger papers um any of the historical collections
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that we have that would tell you all of this information it is in the libraries of the gender
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studies departments at these huge universities and the professors there kind of get to gatekeep
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the information translate it and package it and then give it to students write books do things like so
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they kind of disseminate the information and they they literally come right out and say that they do that
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from a feminist standpoint because and here's their reasoning they said well the real history like the
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the the unbiased not that there's ever truly unbiased history but the the historical narrative
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that existed before 1970 well that was written by men so they're going to put a patriarchal spin on it
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and we don't like that so we're going to rewrite it we're going to literally rewrite women's history
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from the standpoint of the oppressed woman and it's called standpoint feminism and they're very
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upfront about it they don't even deny doing that they say yeah of course we took the history and we
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rewrote it from the perspective of the oppressed woman so from their perspective so the story that
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everyone has gotten is not anything close to what really happened it's their version it's through a
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feminist lens what they think happened okay because that's what i realized too because i started
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they're all giving me flat because i was on a stream once and i said you know all these studies
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that come out i don't need a study to tell me anything like like and i what i mean is like
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i'll see studies that say the sky isn't blue and if i look up the little say it's it's pink and i'm like
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well i'm looking at it now it's blue and what i realized is i think there's a lot of studies like
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pushed out by like feminism where like it's like made in these universities and it's like
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with their idea like there's something with the level of studies where like the quality has gone
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down and i don't know how or why i'm not i'm not a big you know academic like yeah but i'm just like
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i'm as an outsider looking in it's like something's off you know you could just like feel it like you could
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just i don't know yeah if you have just like a little bit of a if you're somebody like you who's
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like well but i want to know what's really going on here because what you're telling me doesn't match
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up with like the problems i'm seeing going on in my culture right now like you're a young woman who's
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trying to figure out dating relationships marriage uh why is marriage such a crumbling institution why
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are all the children being raised by single mom like what's what's at the bottom of this what's
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going on here and when you try to actually dig into the history it's very difficult because they
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gatekeep the history they they kind of co-opted it and turned it into what they want it to be
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for propaganda purposes so that they can steer the the social movements right they do this it's kind
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of like the um black lives matter where they'll rewrite the history there as well what's that called
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like the 19 the 1815 project or something like that i can't i can never remember the year but
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it's basically where they'll kind of rewrite history from the from the perspective of the oppressed
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you know black slave it's very similar to that they just do it with women instead