Women didn't win the right to vote with just polite rhetoric, we were downright militant and engaged in active acts of vandalism such as smashing windows, arson, detonating pipe bombs, sabotaging communication lines, and plotting to kidnap of members of Parliament.In one day British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith narrowly missed being cut in half by an axe thrown by one of our members and then had to be dragged from a burning theater after we set fire to it during his speech.
The prisons held 250 suffragettes but it kick-started the process which eventually led to women's suffrage and general agreement that, yes, women were members of society and all it took was protesting and disturbing meetings of old white dudes.
We even learnt Jiu-Jitsu after watching our colleagues get beaten, imprisoned, force-fed, and sometimes even killed by the police and some got so good at it that they became my own personal bodyguards armed with clubs, following me the length and breadth of the country.
It was a hard struggle and we won but if you don't think that our tactics were very ladylike, you are free to say it but i hope you're good at dodging axe's.
All women want is equality but even today, 100 years after we grudgingly got given the vote, things aren’t looking altogether fabulous for us girls but one day a man may find a way to satisfactorily explain to their mothers, wives, girlfriends and daughters why he doesn't believe in equality for women.
After all the way men have treated women throughout all of human history, men should be glad we only want equality and not payback.
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