Here are the female members of parliament dressed in the sashes of the Suffragettes. Four people were killed by the campaigns of the Suffragettes, and 24 others were injured. The contemporary press called them "Terrorists"
Shortly after this photograph was taken, these ladies took off their sashes and all apart from a few voted in the HofC for #PalestineAction to be a proscribed terrorist organisation.
No one has died from excessive graffiti
@Geri @hakan_geijer @HarriettMB
Nope, there's nothing wrong with the OP. Harriet was just adding to your point.
@grayface_ghost @hakan_geijer @HarriettMB
ok. i have been tripped up before that was all xx
I don't. I admire the Suffragists who arguably accomplished far more.
I admit I'm not entirely consistent on this, but I don't know why we lionise the Suffragettes who murdered and maimed innocents. People remember Davison getting killed by a horse but rarely remember their victims.
And my own language gives away how time gives legitimacy there - were the politicians they were trying to actually kill, legitimate targets?
They called themselves terrorists.
Anyway, as you were
@grayface_ghost @dedicto @HarriettMB JS Mill and the 1918 Representation of the People's Act are some of the few occasions when women have been properly supported by men.
But I am not in the humour to talk much about this today xxx
@grayface_ghost@tech.lgbt @Geri @HarriettMB The French Resistance were also terrorists. Would you call the Maquis murderers, too?
The kind of "nonviolence" that reviles violent resisters as murderers is a political immunodeficiency syndrome. Even Gandhi refused to condemn violent resisters as evil. He only went as far as claiming he had a better way.
"As you were"? I don't think so. Blocked.
There's a reason the Suffragettes are remembered better than the nonviolent Suffragists. The bombing campaign started only after peaceful approaches had been stonewalled into futility.
@dedicto @HarriettMB please reconsider grayface I adore that woman
Sorry if I am speaking out of turn xxxx
@Geri neo-liberal centrist types love to cosplay as left wing progressive social movements
but only decades after the issue is settled 😠
a decade or two from now there will be a picture like that of the same kinds of people standing with trans people pretending like they gave a damn about our rights while the same kinds of people were passing laws to kick us out of toilets and pretending trans kids don't exist naturally and we're brainwashing them
the Guardian didn't support the Suffragettes, it let people from both sides contribute articles and stayed neutral, same as they're doing with trans people now. and people call it a left wing paper 🙄
@Geri I've been called worse 😜
the term 'battle axe' meaning an overbearing woman comes from a Suffragette (who had an hatchet)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle-axe_(woman)
one of them tried to kill Winston Churchill with a weapon too, I think. helped scare the UK establishment/political class into reaching for some sort of compromise
only articles I can find are about one drowning him out by ringing a cowbell
imagine if someone cowbelled Starmer and spared us some of the BS 🔔😜
@floppyplopper @Geri
thanks hun! thought I was getting jumbled up with the woman who threw an axe at Asquith
so many Suffragettes with weapons floating around! mysteriously absent from the history books!!
@Geri @normjess
skeggøx is your classic viking axe, variety of designs, but a big broad blade and a huge heavy butt to give the blade splitting bower, sometimes the butt would be shaped like a spike or a hammer.
labrys is your minoan double-headed battle axe. probably never actually used as a weapon in real life you see it in mosaics being wielded by female minoan deities as a symbol of their devine power. you still see the labrys still in use today as a symbol of women's power harking back to pre-patriarchal societies like the minoans.
i picked these two out because as capitalist society becomes more alienated from skilled physical labour the small hand-axes that Mary might have used such as a hatchet, adze or froe are less familiar with us and instead we think of large axes we see in our culture such as the two above.
just wanted to erase the confusion, sorry for the lecture on axes!
@urlyman tyvm. From you that's high praise. It sits nicely against my usual idiocy and current love ramblings.
One of the things I adore about Mastodon is no one has a go at you for writing silly stuff. They just scroll on and think bless xxx
Love you, Jon xx
And I expect those exact same rabid right wing rags; Torygraph, Hail etc ran almost identical hysterical headlines about the suffragettes in their day as today on those voicing solidarity with Palestine.
how quickly they forget.
@Geri This is why I follow you Geri. An excellent post making me aware of something I would be in blissful ignorance of otherwise.
The stench of political hypocrisy these days is utterly nauseating.
Hahahahahaha. Luv ya 😘
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