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I don’t really understand why women would be willing to put forth their rights and equality unanimously except for voting rights. If women were kept out of political life because they were considered unsuited for it intellectually and emotionally, but the women and men at Seneca Falls were arguing the opposite, why not just go for the gold? The Declaration of Sentiments is threatening already, what difference would one more assertion make. -- Taylor Brann | I don’t really understand why women would be willing to put forth their rights and equality unanimously except for voting rights. If women were kept out of political life because they were considered unsuited for it intellectually and emotionally, but the women and men at Seneca Falls were arguing the opposite, why not just go for the gold? The Declaration of Sentiments is threatening already, what difference would one more assertion make. -- Taylor Brann | ||
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| + | I don't really understand why the Declaration of Sentiments began with the introduction to the Declaration of Independence. I know the women were trying to establish that they were entitled to the freedoms men did as a result of the Declaration of Independence, but I feel like by repeating it, the women are not making any progress. However, I do feel that some of the statements made in the Declaration of Sentiments were very strong. When the women write, "He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead." (P. 242) The phrase "civilly dead" just seems like a strong way of describing the lack of rights for women, but that probably describes the women's feelings almost exactly on the matter. --- Alex Mankarios | ||
== Lucy Stone (and Henry Blackwell)’s Marriage Protest, 1855 == | == Lucy Stone (and Henry Blackwell)’s Marriage Protest, 1855 == | ||
