Right Wingnuts Oppose Women’s Suffrage
August 26, 2009 > MAUI TODAY No Comments |
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Women’s Equality Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Wahine: Woman PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Meri: Woman HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “This woman made a circuit of the islands.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “One is not born, but rather becomes a woman.” (Simone de Beauvior)August 26, 1920: 19th Amendment to the US Constitution is certified, establishing women’s right to vote. More >
To those hysterical conservatives — especially women — who amidst the current health care reform debate, decry US descent into socialism and demand a return to the “founders’ original constitutional intent,” we can only conclude that you wish to have your right to vote rescinded and slavery reinstituted. As for the former issue, we wholeheartedly concur. But alas, even loud-mouthed, mean-spirited ignoramuses are included in universal suffrage.
