Penciling It In 0
In the Bangor Daily News, Wayne E. Reilly reports on a debate that took place a century ago about whether women should be allowed to vote. It’s fascinating. Here’s a snippet:
“Mrs. Huntington believed that the woman who had such a narrow skirt that she had to be lifted into a wagon was not fit to vote,” the correspondent for the Commercial reported. Getting into a wagon, of course, was a far more important exercise a century ago than it is today.
It’s a light-hearted little column, but illustrates well the utter bullshit that persons tell themselves–and others–to justify their prejudices.
