I am fond of the post-Great War women's suffrage narrative where the combination of collapsed legitimacy and the creeping awareness in the male voter that neither they nor anyone they actually knew was up to handling bulk picric acid sufficed to remove sufficient objection, but should make an effort to remember that it was a long process with a bunch of threads to it.
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Date: 2018-11-11 03:06 pm (UTC)I am fond of the post-Great War women's suffrage narrative where the combination of collapsed legitimacy and the creeping awareness in the male voter that neither they nor anyone they actually knew was up to handling bulk picric acid sufficed to remove sufficient objection, but should make an effort to remember that it was a long process with a bunch of threads to it.