" I romanticize America. I can't help it. I've always been head over heels in love with Thomas Jefferson and Harriet Tubman and Emily Dickinson and Robert Johnson and roads that go on and on through big, empty spaces, and Walt Whitman's sentences that go on and on, creating their own mental spaces, and the lovely insanity of a bunch of rich, white guys founding a country on the idea that everyone had equal rights, even if they didn't really believe it. In the beginning were the words and the words were so damn good we're stuck forever after trying to make something of them. "Posted by Martial
Equal rights? Yes. The same rights? No. You are undoubtly reffering to the fact that women weren't allowed to vote. They were kept, had strict rules to treatment, and did not have to do the dangerous work BUT they didn't, also, and AT THE SAME TIME have the rights enjoyed by men. Unsurprisingly, the War To Annihilation called WWI did not occur until the gentle woman was given the right to vote, but not the right to die. Indeed, Sherman's wholesale destruction of Shoe closets was necessary to make the war "real" for women in the south. The fact that the gentry and the women kept the war going after Vicksberg and Gettysberg shows well their "nobility". As for property having something to do with voting, if a man wanted to vote, he could acquire a (small) amount of property. The Founding Father's were so far above you, you cannot even begin to comprehend.
Posted by: Kirk on June 4, 2004 08:58 AM