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Thread #96211   Message #1878435
Posted By: Ebbie
07-Nov-06 - 01:09 PM
Thread Name: BS: US Democracy 33% cannot vote !
Subject: RE: BS: US Democracy 33% cannot vote !
Another segue here: Kevin, has the UK always 'allowed' women to vote? (I say "allowed" because it is infuriating to me that women anywhere have been 'given' the vote, 'allowed' to vote, 'allowed' to be educated, etc. Who in the hell had the right -ever to decide what and whether and when any adult, as opposed to any other adult, should be able to do something?)

It is like saying 'man and wife', instead of 'husband and wife'. Our (largely) unconscious bias is huge.