Women in 1897 had access to work, education, property, and public life, and they were happier than women are today. That is not my opinion, that is what the data shows and what the women of that era said themselves. You have been told that suffrage was a massive grassroots movement where all women were desperate for the vote. That is not what happened, and in this episode I read you the actual history they left out of your textbook.
I break down Susan B. Anthony's 1897 speech, the ten reasons the majority of women opposed suffrage, and how anti-suffrage women predicted the exact collapse of birth rates, marriage, and family we are living through right now. I connect the paradox of declining female happiness to the rise of feminism as a political project, not a liberation. This episode is for the woman who senses something is off with the narrative she was given and wants the receipts.
Chapters:
(00:00) Introduction
(01:07) Women Outperform Men but Claim Oppression
(03:22) The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness
(04:02) Susan B. Anthony's 1897 Speech
(06:03) Ten Reasons Women Opposed the Vote
(08:01) Feminism as Psychological Warfare
(10:14) The Double Standard on Marriage
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