To you and Laurie both: I just turned 70 and it is hard to see "civilization" deteriorating. Yet not that far back to fall, scarily. Remember: we females were only considered human enough to vote in 1920. Black men had been enfranchised 50 years before. Susan B. Anthony couldn't testify in her defense when charged with criminal voting be…
To you and Laurie both: I just turned 70 and it is hard to see "civilization" deteriorating. Yet not that far back to fall, scarily. Remember: we females were only considered human enough to vote in 1920. Black men had been enfranchised 50 years before. Susan B. Anthony couldn't testify in her defense when charged with criminal voting because no female was legally competent to be a witness at law. So recently, women couldn't own property, couldn't inherit, had no rights to the children of their body, and marriage was legal sex-slavery. So I guess we have made some headway, but how trivial a distance in historical time to fall back!
To you and Laurie both: I just turned 70 and it is hard to see "civilization" deteriorating. Yet not that far back to fall, scarily. Remember: we females were only considered human enough to vote in 1920. Black men had been enfranchised 50 years before. Susan B. Anthony couldn't testify in her defense when charged with criminal voting because no female was legally competent to be a witness at law. So recently, women couldn't own property, couldn't inherit, had no rights to the children of their body, and marriage was legal sex-slavery. So I guess we have made some headway, but how trivial a distance in historical time to fall back!