Not long, at least not as a civilization. As Camille Paglia observed in Sexual Personae, “If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts.” Something to look forward to.
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Not officially, of course, but have you noticed the large & growing number of senior positions in business & politics which are occupied by representatives of the distaff side? No problem with that, of course, if the women were there because of merit, ability, competence – but that is not necessarily what we are seeing.
In the current case of the slutty nymphomaniac, we see a highly biased legal system which protects the identity of the female accuser but drags the identities of the (presumed innocent) male accused through the dirt. Yes, males in Congress may have passed that law, but one wonders what pressures were on them to do something so obviously unjust and unfair?
Any male who has been involved in family law or divorce will report that the legal system is heavily biased in favor of the woman. The educational system is heavily biased against male students, subjecting large numbers of them to deadening drug regimes to counter “ADHD” – aka normal young male high spirits. If this is not yet gynocracy, it is heading in that direction.
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I’m so glad Ann (my heroine!) mentioned Tawana Brawley, the mother of ‘em all. IMHO this is when the Left developed its favorite mantra, its firewall against facts:
“So what if it didn’t really happen? it COULDA happened!”
I remember hearing that a lot in connection with the Duke Lacrosse case.
The sky was the limit! Al Sharpton accused the DA investigating the Brawley case of actually BEING one of the (fictional) white rapists!
Eventually the DA won a huge defamation suit against Sharpton, and Johnnie Cochran (OJ Simpson’s rappin’ defense counsel) paid the judgment off for him, so Ol’Al could live on, to lie another day.
1987…40 years ago. 4 decades of allowing blacks and leftists to lie about EVERYTHING rather than ……well, rather than WHAT? I reckon: rather than the Jussie Smollett treatment—but yeah he was convicted but that wasn’t the end of him. There is NOBODY who can’t be subjected to revisionist history, and the cycle is getting shorter and shorter.
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As in the erstwhile USSR (which we more resemble with each passing day) In the USA, “the past….. is very hard to predict”.
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You love Ann Coulter? I like her too…
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If memory serves, Lady Ann isn’t too crazy about the 19th Amendment.
I told you the 19th Amendment was a rash-experiment gone wrong.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) October 12, 2018
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I do like her, because no one ever faults her research.
I wish she still liked Trump.
As for the 19th…I.don’t think any woman should ever kid around about repeal. Does she think she’d have a column and sell books, if women couldn’t vote? But—nobody’s perfect. I’m a fan.
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You are assuming most of her readers and fans are women, I question that assumption
Edit: You are also conflating reading books and columns with voting
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Just to clarify, are you claiming that women could not be successful writers before the 19th Amendment was adopted? Or, perhaps, that women could not be influential in politics? Just wondering about this since the very passage of that amendment would seem to be an obvious and prominent counterexample.
Women underestimating or understating the accomplishments of their forebears is weirdly commonplace. Must be a competitive thing.
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No I’m not.
Editing: Indeed I’m assuming the opposite. Yes I imagine lotsa men like Ann. She’s hottie in the Right, and she’s not a feminist (#metoo!) so what’s not to like?
As for “conflating” reading books and columns with voting, I’m not even sure what you mean. Maybe that women would read Ann even if they couldn’t vote? So what? Politicians in general are more concerned with convincing voters, not with the opinions of blocs who are disenfranchised.
Oh CTFO, of course there were many wonderful female novelists md poets. Do you think I don’t know about female writers and poets? I ain’t no English major but I reckon I know quite a lot about literature.
The suffragists in England had to resort to action, sometimes dying for the cause like Emily Davidson. They suffered from the government’s “cat-and-mouse” strategy, whereby they were imprisoned and maltreated till they were on the point of death, then released to recover, then re-arrested.
I am in no way “ underestimating” nor “understating” their performance. I benefit from it and so does Ann C. (And I’m sure she knows it.) I doubt I would or could do and risk as much as they did.
In my opinion, WWI was the biggest impetus for female suffrage in our country. Women served on the front lines as nurses and ambulance drivers and took over men’s jobs at home. Women hadbeen granted limited suffrage (she hadda be over 30 and own property) in 1913 in the UK, finally expanded in 1928.
The “good ‘uns” among us women, whom the gents love to quote, can be heard to say “Of course, I’d give up MY vote if it meant Joy Behar ( f’rinstance) couldn’t vote either!” How asinine. Has any gent ever been heard to say he’d give up his vote if it meant Barack Obama would t be able to vote either? That ain’t how it works. I mean, why vote at all? There’s bound to be somebody out there whose vote will cancel out yours.
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Bill Cosby jumped right into that on Tawanas side. Never watched or listened to him again.
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Oh, I didn’t remember that! Well,in that case I no longer feel the teensiest bit sorry for Ol’ Bill.
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That is a serious question, much bigger than the question of whether women should have the vote. For most of us, it does not matter whether or not we vote, or how we vote – and that is even before considering the dubious nature of many votes these days.
The Founding Fathers were opposed to “factions” – political parties – which is what we have today. They thought we should be voting for individuals whose reputations we knew in our communities. Instead, most people vote for their “faction”, which is often the same “faction” their parents voted for. And the result is that most constituencies and States are effectively safe seats for one or other of the “factions”. Very few people have the opportunity to cast a vote that makes a difference.
We have been sold a Bill of Goods about the value of casting a vote every few years … a vote that most of the time has no influence on the outcome. There are better ways to get representative government.
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You dodged the question. As a reminder,
Because it does appear that you are, based on the quoted statement:
The clear implication is that the 19th Amendment was the sine qua non for Ann Coulter to have her career.
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Yes, you b- because she is a political commentator!!! “Do I think there were successful female writers before the 19th amendment”—is THAT the question you think I “dodged”?
I don’t see that I did, sir.
I said I was very familiar with English literature written by women. Was there something unclear about my answer?
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Then your thesis is there were none, or hardly any, female political writers before the 20th century. Thanks for the clarification.
As an aside, have you ever heard of Harriet Beecher Stowe? She’s pretty famous. I heard she wrote a pretty important book — I forget the title. Furthermore, let me acquaint you with what are commonly called “search engines” on the “internet.” It’s amazing what you can find with those.
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Oh THANK you, good doctor , why, I hd no idea such a thing existed!
I’m not going to engage you on the difference between Stowe and Ann Coulter. Go thy ways.
Doctor Lorentz – if I can use that famous name – I have wasted more than a few minutes of my life wondering what it is that has made an apparently intelligent person like you into … you!
You seem to apply a very literal interpretation to other people’s words, failing to understand the larger context in which those words are written. And then you don’t know when to stop.
It is not conducive to interesting conversations, and it is not attractive.
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