How The Suffragettes Were An Obstacle In Obtaining Votes For Women

Belinda Brown: Matt O'Connor the Founder for F4J Father's for Justice has had the great idea that the statue of Emmeline Pankhurst should be moved from its current location and put in a museum where we can teach people about the harm she did as well as her achievements. Her greatest harm was her role in the white feather campaign where men were randomly given white feathers to humiliate them into fighting in the War. There were 350 000 underage young men who went to fight in WW1, they were more likely to lose their lives and it seems likely that many went to fight in direct response to the white feather campaign.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/132...  they were more likely to lose their lives and it seems likely that many went to fight in direct response to the white feather campaign. However what I do here is call into question the achievements of Emmeline Pankhurst and the Suffragettes. I argue that the reason there were barriers to women getting the vote was not because of patriarchy and the oppression of women. Rather the problem was the Suffragette's insistence that the vote only go to women of property, and the second problem was their level of violence which made it difficult for the government to give women the vote because they would be seen to be capitulating to violence and terrorism.

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