Women Suffrage





https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2012/11/vote-no-on-womens-suffrage-bizarre-reasons-for-not-letting-women-vote/264639/
After reading The Atlantic, the reason many "voted no" to the idea of giving women the right to vote in the first place is because 90% of women either "did not want it" or did" not care." I'm not exactly sure why many women didn't care. This may be due to the culture of that time where women mainly stayed inside the house, so possibly many of the politics that they would be voting for would not have an effect on them. The Atlantic continued to state that 80% of women eligible to vote are married. As a result, many of the women would just be emulated the husband's vote having essentially net effect of zero in voting percentages. The article then continues on to say that giving women the opportunity for women to vote would result in competition between men and women instead of cooperation. I really do not believe this is a good argument. If one wants to promote cooperation instead of competition, then why have voting at all. Why should cooperation just be limited between male to male interactions or female to female interactions? Competition would not be detrimental to society. Finally, the article restates the cliche "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Seeing as 90% of women do not even care about voting, why go through so much trouble to attempt to fix it, risking the already stable system. I'm not saying I agree with the point, but I understand where they are coming from with this argument.


https://www.thoughtco.com/why-women-should-vote-3530481

On the other hand, this article argues how women should vote. It first states how giving women the ability to vote will promote better political men figures in office. This seems very obvious that women would have a great effect on the political world just as men. However, I assume that it was probably not so obvious at the time looking at this article that stated how women will vote based on how their husband votes will be false.  This article then argues that men can deceive each other more easily than a woman can be deceived. Not only is it argued in this article that women should be able to vote, but they should also be educated because they are "essential to humanity." Obviously I agree that women should be allowed to vote, but I attempted to look at both articles with an open mind. I was very surprised that 90% of women did not care to vote (however, I wonder how they achieved this statistic). However, it still remains that I feel women should vote (duh).








Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

American Indian Alcoholism

Image
One of the most pressing issues in Native American society is alcoholism. Around 42% of Native Americans that start to abuse alcohol, will continue to do so the rest of their life. On top of this 12% of all Native American deaths are due to alcohol use. The most common deaths by alcohol include traffic accidents driving under the influence and liver disease, which contribute to over 25% of alcoholic-related deaths. This is over 3 times the national average at 3.3%. Not only does this affect the lives of themselves, but alcohol is a major part in many other afflicting issues, like violence, rape, and suicide.  Native American Alcoholism Prevalence Compared to Other Races American Indians, unlike other cultures that have been in contact with the consumption of alcohol for thousands of years, have only been in contact with alcohol for a few hundreds of years. As a result, in comparison to the rest of the world, Native Americans have had less time for their bodies to deve...
Read more
Image
\ \ https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2012/11/vote-no-on-womens-suffrage-bizarre-reasons-for-not-letting-women-vote/264639/ After reading The Atlantic, the reason many "voted no" to the idea of giving women the right to vote in the first place is because 90% of women either "did not want it" or did" not care." I'm not exactly sure why many women didn't care. This may be due to the culture of that time where women mainly stayed inside the house, so possibly many of the politics that they would be voting for would not have an effect on them. The Atlantic continued to state that 80% of women eligible to vote are married. As a result, many of the women would just be emulated the husband's vote having essentially net effect of zero in voting percentages. The article then continues on to say that giving women the opportunity for women to vote would result in competition between men and women ins...
Read more

Practicing Incorporating a Quotation

Quote In the movie Lincoln , Daniel Day-Lewis, does an outstanding job portraying the character of Abraham Lincoln. His act of staying quiet and calm compared to those around him is best expressed by A. O. Scott in his review of Lincoln  when he says, "His Lincoln speaks in a reedy drawl that provides a notable counterpoint to the bombastic bellowing of some of his allies and adversaries." Explanation: Here I was incorporating a quote from a New York Times review on the movie. I did this by expressing an opinion of my own about the movie, explain why I think that, then further back up my point with a quote from the article that explains explains exactly what I said, but in more detail.
Read more