I suppose it would be taking the latest Coulter book a bit too seriously if I pointed out that women’s suffrage in virtually every Western country was initially quite favourable to parties of the center-right and helpful for conservative politics generally. This came as something of a surprise to some of the progressives who had pushed for women’s suffrage, evidently failing to notice that there were a great many women who actually held views that put them on the right. Even today, the GOP, which I suppose still has to count as our center-right party, typically wins among married women and loses among unmarried women. The reasons for this really should be plain already, and I have already spent too much time on this.
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October 4th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Kitty
Coulter has taken herself beyond parody. She’s said this before, I suppose because she can’t think of any actual, funny jokes, so she relies on her political version of flatulence humor.
October 4th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
mkdelucas
What I found interesting was the comment section.
October 5th, 2007 at 10:01 am
empiricus
Daniel and mkdelucas, you are far braver - or perhaps just more masochistic - than I to voluntarily read comments on la demifemme Coulter. In some societies being forced to read anything remotely favorable to her is considered torture (although as we have recently been reminded, our government doesn’t torture).
Seriously, I’m sure Daniel knows, but some readers might not, that in France the Radicals (though not the Socialists) consistently opposed women’s suffrage, primarily on the grounds that women’s suffrage would tilt the balance of power away from the Radicals’ favored anticlericalism (the Radicals did see women as overall a more conservative force, but to oversimplify, for the Radicals conservatism and antianticlericalism were functionally synonymous).
see e.g., Women’s Rights and Women’s Lives in France, 1944-1968
by Claire Duchen
http://books.google.com/books?id=rZQ9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA33&sig=ct9DwXeumXqbgDlhdypwhf3Oono#PPA34,M1