Apparently, all that time I spent studying history in college and grad school was a complete waste of time. Because once people die, nothing about their lives or the events that happened during their lives matters. At least according to merlin34 in Reddit’s Men’s Rights subreddit, who recently set forth this cogent argument as to “Why feminists should SHUT THE $^%# UP about women’s suffrage in US/UK.”
The 19th Amendment of the US Constitution was ratified in 1920, before that year’s election. At the time, the voting age was 21. Any woman who was denied the right to vote would have had to have been born before Election Day of 1898. Today, she would be 113+ years old. That means dead.
In the UK, it was in 1928 that women were granted equal voting rights to men, again at the age of 21 (although women over 30 were given the vote 10 years earlier). Any woman denied the right to vote based on sex in the UK would be over 105 years old now. There’s still probably some around, but not a lot, and not for much longer, and they weren’t denied the right to vote for long.
What does this have to do with anything? It means that feminists using the “women weren’t allowed to vote, wah” or “black men got the vote before women of any color” canards should SHUT UP, because the list of those actually denied the right to vote based on sex is rapidly diminishing. In another ten years, none will remain.
Naturally, the comments are also a delight. OThompson says:
You can also tell them that Suffragettes were often domestic terrorists.
AntiFeministMedia adds:
It isnt just feminists though is it, its any woman you get into an argument with.
If its not ‘women wernt allowed to vote’, its ‘rapists get off scott-free’. They ignore the context. When did universal sufferage for men go ahead in the UK? 1918?
Most women are ignorant of most of these issues, but they are happy to just parrot all this stuff because that makes them victims, and so they get privileges they arent really entitled to.
They dont care wether what they are saying is out of date, or that most men didnt recieve the vote untill very recently either, they only care that the female gravy train of victimhood keeps rolling on.
Is the Female Gravy Train of Victimhood anything like Soul Train? Because that would be awesome.
Why don’t you just fucking leave, no one is going to miss your disgusting presence.
You are clearly think you are better than us so why don’t you take your highhorse and leave and stay gone for once.
So, Ion if you don’t hate anyone here, why were you so pissed off when you got banned from the forum?
“I guess I’d better leave now.”
Okay, bye Ion!
Yeah, Ion was crying about being banned like the orange boner.
see you…
wouldn’t want to be you…
Hey ladies, don’t forget to tell Ion he flounced!
You mean the one where I was away for 2 days and came back to find you still talking about me, and a couple of new forum threads about “the trolls” and “MRA memes?” That one? Yeah, I might be taking another break soon, actually.
Dude. you hovered around until someone made one offhand comment about you, and they you post post posted about how you knew we couldnt live without you while everyone rolled their eyes.
it was like three fucking weeks ago. wait a little longer before lying about it, maybe?
Oh man, I was just hoping you’d turn up. “What my mood needs…is a little NWOslave”
So, Ion if you don’t hate anyone here, why were you so pissed off when you got banned from the forum?
Yeah, Ion was crying about being banned like the orange boner.
I was? News to me. My, quite a tale you’ve constructed. I’ll be back later to hear what else this fictional Ion fellow has been up to. Sounds like quite the character.
“I’ll be back later”
Aww man, you will? I was hoping you’d just stay away this time… *cries* (like Ion did when he was banned)
I just told you what the proof would be, in the very post that you quoted. Actually, at this point, forget it. I have my answer.
And I don’t “hate” anybody here. I don’t even know you. Just because you and your buddies here are full of anger and hate doesn’t mean everyone else is. That’s projection, that is.
No, you said “what has she ever done” and you said what you would not accept (apparently being a celebrity means that even when you do do charity work, it is worthless), but not what you would accept.
As for your laughable claim of not hating anyone? Why would you say something like that to Ami if not for the fact you hate her?
jumbofish: Funny how all of you have no problem dishing out insults and abuse 24/7, but lose it when someone responds in kind. No wonder you spend your days on an obscure blog where you get to bully people while hiding behind strength of numbers. Enjoy your echo chamber.
“Enjoy your echo chamber.”
Does this mean you’re leaving now? Bye!
@Ion:
Yeah, see, when you tell someone who’s desperately worried about the way her voice sounds to people that it sounds like a guy, you’ve essentially twisted the knife into the stabbing victim. It is your own damn fault people think you’re a little shit as a result. Acting all smug and reveling in the fact that we get upset? Yeah. We are full of hate. At you. For your own actions. It is your own damn fault that we hate you. Doesn’t matter if you hate anybody here or not, you’ve crossed a line. There is nothing you can do right now that can make us think any lower of you.
“It’s not. It’s just been fun to watch you scramble for excuses. Sheesh, I’m telling you to your faces that I’m trolling for lulz and you don’t even care.”
Oh wait, there we go.
You do have a chance to apologize, maybe you truly didn’t know what you were saying. I highly doubt you care, considering this is the umpteenth time you’ve admitted that everything you do is just taking the piss, like a school-yard bully who’s finally found the right buttons to press.
You aren’t here to be constructive, nobody finds you amusing, and strewn shit everywhere, then acted all surprised when people call you out. If I were running this forum, you’d have been banned quite some time ago. As it is, all I can do is put a recommendation in to David to swat one more fly buzzing around. Good bye, Ion, hope we never meet again.
When I have I insulted or abused anyone?
Yeah, David, time for Ion to go.
Kirbywarp: Wow, get more dramatic please. Face it man, you’re on a blog whose purpose is to mock other people. Like a gang of internet bullies, you cheerfully attack and mock everyone who disagrees with you, then high-five each other over your “victory”. But God forbid someone should attack one of you, even when provoked, because that’s just crossing the line! I will say it again, you’re nothing but a gang of obnoxious, hypocritical, cowardly bullies and I will treat you as such. See ya!
bye bye dipshit
*waves*
funny you talk about abuse when you yourself are quite the bully. Its all the same with you bullies, you can’t handle people fighting back. You target weaker people who you don’t expect to fight back and when they do you whine about it like its the greatest injustice in the world.
Aaand there’s the flounce (happy NWO)?
Let the door smack your ass on the way out, it’ll be amusing. 😛
Uh oh Kirby, you made Ion mad…
Ami also did not attack Ion either.
Ion, when did Ami provoke you?
ion can you really not get the difference between making fun of someone’s silly opinions and making fun of a part of their appearance theyre sensitive about?
So when is leaving for real? xD This is like the 5th time in this thread he’s claimed he’s leaving xD For a guy who keeps telling us how he doesn’t care, how much of a life he has, and how he doesn’t hate us… he certainly does seem to rly want to hurt ppl and get upset and not being able to disengage xD
Also apparently our snark is like transphobia now? o.O
I think it’s b/c ppl felt you went to a new low here Ion, but you can feel justified if you want… and you can even be happy you pissed everybody off, so you can keep attacking me if you want… my voice, or what surgeries you’ve think I’ve gotten, telling me I’ll never pass if… etc etc… all the things you think trans ppl need to do! 😀 and then you’ll keep getting rises out of ppl xD
but yeah, transphobic personal comments do get ppl here angry, now you know and you can keep doing it to get your “rise” xD
“ion can you really not get the difference between making fun of someone’s silly opinions and making fun of a part of their appearance theyre sensitive about?”
Fucking nuance, how does it work? 😉