| | Right of the bat this article caught my attention with the seeming contradiction of the “militant suffragists led by the charismatic Quaker leader Alice Paul” (111) and the harshness of the sentence Paul and her followers received. I cannot help but wonder if these women received such a severe sentence because of their radical behavior and how horribly inappropriate and alarming this behavior was on women. --kokeefe | | Right of the bat this article caught my attention with the seeming contradiction of the “militant suffragists led by the charismatic Quaker leader Alice Paul” (111) and the harshness of the sentence Paul and her followers received. I cannot help but wonder if these women received such a severe sentence because of their radical behavior and how horribly inappropriate and alarming this behavior was on women. --kokeefe |
| − | First I believe that Alice Paul had to have been one tough women to have gone through all that she did while being in jail; dealing with the disgusting conditions and then the scrutinizing men guards and doctor. The one protest she did come up with, the hunger strike, I didn’t exactly understand. She complained of having little to eat and it being “not a diet destined to sustain a rebellion for long,” (112) but then she starts a hunger strike. This must have only made her and the women weaker, and I don’t understand the logic behind that. At least with the food they were given they had something in them, but nothing after three days? It’s no wonder the doctor thought she was crazy, I know that I wouldn’t be able to think right if I was that deprived of food. Once the doctor had come in and Alice only rambled on about her cause and Woodrow Wilson. Of course she didn’t know that this ‘doctor’ was examining her for her mental health, but Alice hadn’t had anything to eat in three days and must not have been in her right mind either. I probably would have thought that she was crazy too. It’s no wonder she was sent to the psychopathic ward. Whatever happened to her? -Morgan M. | + | First I believe that Alice Paul had to have been one tough women to have gone through all that she did while being in jail; dealing with the disgusting conditions and then the scrutinizing men guards and doctor. '''The one protest she did come up with, the hunger strike, I didn’t exactly understand. She complained of having little to eat and it being “not a diet destined to sustain a rebellion for long,” (112) but then she starts a hunger strike. This must have only made her and the women weaker, and I don’t understand the logic behind that.''' At least with the food they were given they had something in them, but nothing after three days? It’s no wonder the doctor thought she was crazy, I know that I wouldn’t be able to think right if I was that deprived of food. Once the doctor had come in and Alice only rambled on about her cause and Woodrow Wilson. Of course she didn’t know that this ‘doctor’ was examining her for her mental health, but Alice hadn’t had anything to eat in three days and must not have been in her right mind either. I probably would have thought that she was crazy too. It’s no wonder she was sent to the psychopathic ward. Whatever happened to her? -Morgan M. |