TottsJul 2

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

Show threadHarriettMBJul 2
@Geri These colours have also been hijacked by some #TERF. It’s a gross betrayal of every woman there has been and will be in the UK. To have these women vote to proscribe a non-violent organisation, as well as support the erasure of #Trans people is perverse.
Show threadTottsJul 2
@HarriettMB I never agreed with the Suffragettes as they only wanted middle class women to have the vote. I don't understand the terf reference xx
Show threadDouglas Edwards Jul 3
@Geri @HarriettMB I still admire the Suffragettes; I can forgive them for not seeing through every aspect of enemy's propaganda at once. But it's another matter when those fighting on the wrong side of TODAY'S battles misappropriate Suffragette symbols on behalf of current reactionary elements.
Show threadGhost of Hope 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 3

@dedicto @Geri @HarriettMB

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

Show threadTotts

@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

#Neo_Feminism

Jul 3 at 11:04amWeb