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find it so odd that America has always been thought of as the country where women have true equality
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It is? Where? Fighting for women's rights has gone on there for a good long time, in fact we in the UK got women's votes in 1918, the US* officially not until 1920, fifty years after blacks. However ours wasn't what you'd call totally fair until 1928, since it was at a different age.
* Some bits, particularly in the West, went their own way before that, but the 19th Amendment is when it became part of the legislative foundation of the country.
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Thatcher proved that if a woman does put herself forward (in the so-called nasty, mysoganist party)
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Probably not the right thread, but the point about the Tories is that they *always* fail to generalise - their own are judged by different standards to the rest of us - Boris bans tube drinking for us oiks, but is presumably fine with the decent chaps at the Bullingdon Club or the Henley Regatta tanking up. This is pretty much the key reason I'll never vote for them. The nasty, misogynistic stuff comes out in anti-abortion people like Nadine Dorries or any of them who's ever tried to blame single mothers for the ills of society.
Mind you, it was a Tory government that equalised the voting age for women, but not a Tory government any of the current lot would sit easily in.