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Almroth Wright Victorian Bacteriologist certainly had a way with the women.

posted a year ago by Quasimodo (16388)
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Daisy Ridley reads a letter Clementine Churchill wrote to the Editor of The Times in 1912 in response to a letter Almroth Wright ( a prominent and significant Bacteriologist ) had published in The Times against Women's Suffrage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snTiYQeJwkQ
2:20 running time

No nookie for him !

Here is a link to the letter that Almroth Wright wrote to The Times where he doesn't actually suggest that women should be done away with. It's worth a read if you can wade through it. It's rather long.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Unexpurgated_Case_Against_Woman_Suffrage/Letter_on_Militant_Hysteria

You could make the argument that Clementine Churchill's over-the-top ( dare I say hysterical ? ) response actually lends some support to the case that Almroth Wright was making. He wasn't some crusty old bachelor either as the letter could be read to imply, he was married with three children.

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[–] Quasimodo (16388) a year ago

My word that was a quick response ! Were you looking over my shoulder as I typed it out ? So quick that no doubt you had no time to look at the video let alone read Almroth Wright's letter.

I would regard this post as Social History more than Politics. Is Women's Suffrage still a current political issue ? Protest too much, much !? But then again you are one of The Usual Suspects so this kind of ridiculous response is not entirely unexpected.

[–] Otter (24464) a year ago

My deepest sympathies to the late Mrs. Wright.

[–] [deleted] a year ago

and any daughters he may have had.

[–] [deleted] a year ago

he was stuck in the victorian era. many men were both educated and uneducated.

[–] Quasimodo (16388) a year ago

They separated the world into two spheres. The world outside the home which was men's domain and the home which was women's domain.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (71626) a year ago

Ah, the good old days!
Those floors and linens better be clean and a good stew boiling when I steer my hoarse carriage home.

[–] [deleted] a year ago

and don't forget the coal.

[–] Quasimodo (16388) a year ago

Well it made sense though didn't it. Women have the babies and have to care for them in the home. At the same time men need to be getting on with everything else outside the home. Same as it ever was.

And I don't know what Clementine Churchill was bitching about. She was married to Winston Churchill and at her level she would have had servants to do the housework and very likely a nanny or nannies to look after her children as well.

[–] [deleted] a year ago

women don't wear corsets anymore.

[–] Quasimodo (16388) a year ago

But this was over a hundred years ago.

[–] [deleted] a year ago

so was the premise of this thread.

[–] Quasimodo (16388) a year ago

So are anthropology threads out of favour here as well, even though women didn't wear corsets in the Pleistocene ?

[–] [deleted] a year ago

i was commenting on the views of mr wright.