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Voting a right?? September 9, 2008 - 23:50:42
Yeah this became an issue today, since it was the primaries and I had to work all day, decided to go vote before work. That was easy enough, simple in and out, I wore my little red "I voted" sticker at work. The issue came up around 6pm tonight when a seemingly not insane woman came in and wanted to buy some smokes. So me and my co-worker both were there to assist her on her request. As she was being rang up she noticed my sticker that I was wearing. "You voted?" she asked "Why would you want to do that?" All annoyed like So I told her, women fought, were beat, and tortured for this right, and I felt I needed to exercise said right. She made an ugly face at me..."Woman have no rights" I again disagreed. "You think you have rights?" "Old women (I believe she was grouping herself in this) don't have any rights." She looked at me and asked "Who is the mayor?" I replied Ness is. This is where said women goes into "crazy" mode. "Yeah that man has taken my rights, he's insane, he's crazy...." she starts to walk out of the store in total crazy mode. If I wasn't working, I would have totally said more to that lady than what I did....sucks when you have to be nice to someone who is attacking you for really no reason. I went to an all women's college, and we were taught of many women in history, that had to fight and endure for us women of today. The right to vote being no different. Some of what they endured was horrible. Examples of course: "(Lucy Burns) And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of 'obstructing sidewalk traffic.' They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air. (Dora Lewis) They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women. Thus unfolded the 'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote. For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms." And yet many of the women out there don't vote...and some still follow the old tradition of voting what your husband does. I will say this, I'm glad that lady didn't vote today...she's not all there enough to understand why and what for to wear that sticker. On another note....I feel dirty cause I voted for Al Franken - Cheesus |
