Jewells of Thought

What happened to this movement?

Women fought hard to gain their vote and be given the same rights as the men in their lives had. The Feminism movement seems to have disintegrated as well. They only care about ‘my body my right’ when it comes to killing babies, but not when it comes to men forcibly taking away the word, the title of women away from biological women. The women that don’t have to pretend to be phony women.

There are two American women who have just died in the last couple of weeks who stood heads above those in the so-called Feminists movement. These women in their positions were able to relate to the American women in this country. A happy accident just happened as I was looking over some research for December 7th. I found a speech given by a British Suffragist.

In 1919 Congress with both its chambers passed the bill to give women the right to vote. The next year American women voted for the first time due to this vote. A few years earlier they were energized by Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst on November 13, 1913. She created the Women’s Franchise League and the Women’s Social and Political Union after her husband’s death. Although he believed she should have the rights that he himself had.

“The motto of the suffragettes was ‘deeds, not words’.”

Women wanted this not just for themselves, but for the women in the future, for us. Now Title 9 another hard won battle is loosening its strength for the American Sports-minded Women. Where are those women when we need them most in the world. Mrs. Pankhurst came to the U.S in 1913, as I said to give a particular speech.

“…I am here as a soldier who has temporarily left the field of battle in order to explain-it seems strange it should have to be explained-what civil war is like when civil war is waged by women. I am not only here as a soldier temporarily absent from the field of battle; I am here-and that, I think is the strangest part of my coming-I am here as a person who, according to the law courts of my country, it has been decided, is of no value to the community at all; and I am adjudged because of my life to be a dangerous person, under sentence of penal servitude in a convict prison. So you see there is some special interest in hearing so unusual a person address you. I dare say, in the minds of many of you-you will perhaps forgive me this personal touch-that I do not look either very like a soldier or very like a convict, and yet I am both…”

What happened to women? We are not as passionate as the Suffragettes of Britain or our own American suffragettes. Lately Riley Gaines is the new face of a bold, smart conservative leader in the new Women’s Movement to save Women’s Rights. This next speech was one she gave back in Britain from 1908.

“…I for one, friends, looking round on the muddles that men had made, looking round on the sweated and decrepit members of my sex, I say men have had the control of these things long enough. … We are tired of it. We want to be of use; we want to have this power [to vote] in order that we may try to make the world a much better place for men and women than it is today. … Perhaps it is difficult to rouse women; they are long-suffering and patient, but now that we are roused, we will never be quiet again.”

These speeches came from my “Speeches that changed the world” book published by Quercus. Mrs Pankhust information came from the same book.

Never be quiet again…? So how did we get to what happened to Ms Gaines or any number of young ladies who have recently been hurt by men playing in the wrong teams?

This is very frustrating as a woman with a niece plural obviously. There are many of my cousins I worry about like the young woman whose face was damaged by a dysfunctional male on the other team. Or another young woman hit by a volleyball that hit her by another male with problems on the opposing team.

I am currently reading a book by Katie Breslin also depicting a suffragette from Ireland living in England. Again making me wonder where are all the women who have had this better life because of those women in the early 19th and 20th Centuries. The rights I grew up with were because of those amazing brave women. We need to find that passion they had not just for us but for the future once again.

Do you want to go backwards as we are going? Emmeline was prisoned for her convictions. What’s your red line ladies? Girls are already giving up without fighting for Championships because they know what could and has happened to others. That is not how American women were raised to live; to cower in fear to lose scholarships they worked their entire life for as sportswomen.