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A new blog to contain answers to prompts |
Since my old blog "Everyday Canvas "  became overfilled, here's a new one. This new blog item will continue answering prompts, the same as the old one. Cool water cascading to low ground
To spread good will and hope all around.  |
| Prompt: On this day in 1820, Susan B. Anthony, a pioneer crusader for the women's suffrage movement in the United States, was born in Adams, Massachusetts. In Texas, there is a motion to ban women who do not have the same name as on their birth certificate will lose their voting rights. What do you know about Susan Anthony? How important is the suffrage movement to us today? ----------------- I think it wasn't Susan B. Anthony alone to start the women's movement, but before I get to that, I'll talk about today and the SAVE Act, a bill introduced by Chip Roy of Texas. The bill makes it very difficult for women to vote since women change their last names when they get married. Today, for many Americans a birth certificate used to be, and probably still is, enough proof. Now, in addition to the birth certificate, a government-issued photo ID is required. If the documents don't match, voters may have to produce additional documentation, which could be more difficult to vote where married women or other people who undergo legal name changes (i.e. adoption) are concerned. I can, however, see the reason behind such a bill since many illegals have creeped into the US systems, especially during the later years. On the other hand, married women, since their voting is made much more difficult, may just decide not to vote, thinking one vote (theirs) won't make a difference. But it does. Especially when the difficulty is on such a large scale. So this bill means at least 50% of the population will have difficulty with voting. As to Susan B. Anthony, although today, she gets all the applause and the fame, she wasn't alone. Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Amelia bloomer worked just as hard for the movement as well as many other nameless women. These women, to attract attention to their seeking of full citizenship, which was only granted to men before, wanted to use some symbolism to attract attention to their cause. So, one of their first symbols was a woman riding a bicycle in trousers, instead of staying home and doing the chores. Those trousers were called bloomers. That bloomer trick didn't work very well and soon the women dropped the idea. There were other symbols, too, but one of those later ones was the cat. That poor cat represented domestic women who sat by the hearth and took care of the home. Yet, symbols aside, their fight kept on. Then, since New York was the first state to give women the right to inherit and own property, the first convention of the women's movement was held in Seneca Falls in 1848. Other conventions and demonstrations followed and the movement went through several different stages during the following decades and World Wars, spreading the ideals not only for women but for all people worldwide. As of today, therefore, fights for women’s rights are connected to global human rights—for racial, immigrant, and labor rights--not only for women but for all people. Is it working? Maybe in US and England and several other countries, to some degree. But still, in several places in the world-- Afghanistan comes to mind--some people and especially women are not given the same rights as most other people. |
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