I'm rewatching the excellent Suffrage movie, "Iron Jawed Angels"

[BannedFromDU]

Hahahahahaha

LostinVA  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sun Sep-12-10 03:02 PM
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I'm rewatching the excellent Suffrage movie, "Iron Jawed Angels"
   
Edited on Sun Sep-12-10 03:02 PM by LostinVA
There is a scene where Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and the other "Iron Jawed Angels" are planning their iconic Suffrage parade in DC, the day before Woodrow Wilson's Inauguration. Into the room steps Ida B. Wells (played by Adilah Barnes), a well-known African American feminist and anti-lynching activist. She is told by the Alice Paul that, to appease the Suffrage groups from the South, African American women will have to march at the very back of the parade. Wells, refusing to be treated as a second-class citizen, demands the right right to march with her Caucasian sisters

She calls Paul and the other Suffragettes on their self-proclaimed "political pragmatism" with this statement: "Dress up prejudice and call it politics."

It is sad that this statement is still very apt almost 100 years later.

Try to guess what I said that was deleted:

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DURHAM D (1000+ posts)     Sun Sep-12-10 03:23 PM
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19. I hope you have not seen the movie because -
   
if you have I would say you are a complete asshole.

If you have not seen it then you are a just a typical juvenile male and a sexist jerk.



Oh second thought - you are the first either way.
RL

     I said, "I thought that was a porn movie."

     Hahahahahaha. Sourpusses. Can't take a joke.

[Ballygrl]

BTW, Progressives were even racist back then.

[JohnnyReb]

Hahahahahaha


Try to guess what I said that was deleted:



     I said, "I thought that was a porn movie."

     Hahahahahaha. Sourpusses. Can't take a joke.

Well, in your defense, the title does have a certain "ring" to it....

Then they could have done "Iron Jawed Angles do Dallas"....and so on down the list.

[zeitgeist]

BTW, Progressives were even racist back then.

Yup, today's Margaret Sanger's birthday, she the founder of Planned Parenthood (which is probably responsible for killing more black babies than any other cause I can think of).

[Ballygrl]

Yup, today's Margaret Sanger's birthday, she the founder of Planned Parenthood (which is probably responsible for killing more black babies than any other cause I can think of).

Are they celebrating her birthday over there at DU?

[DumbAss Tanker]

     I said, "I thought that was a porn movie."

     Hahahahahaha. Sourpusses. Can't take a joke.

It does kind of lend itself to one of those porno parody names, like 'Saving Ryan's Privates' or 'The Devil Wore Nada.'

[zeitgeist]

It does kind of lend itself to one of those porno parody names, like 'Saving Ryan's Privates' or 'The Devil Wore Nada.'

Like this German float with Hillary checking out the Obama Stimilus Package?

MMM mmm mmmmm.

[zeitgeist]

Are they celebrating her birthday over there at DU?

Not that I have seen yet but I wouldn't put it past them to.

[true_blood]

Like this German float with Hillary checking out the Obama Stimilus Package?

MMM mmm mmmmm.

HA HA!!! If it was any resemblance to the "stimulus package" that he passed for the economy, she doesn't have much to look at.

[jukin]

Fun Fact: The suffrage movement brought about prohibition which directly killed tens of thousands of people and made million scared for their life.

Progressives always get bit in the ass by the Law of Unintended Consequences.

[AllosaursRus]

With a title like, "Iron Jawed Angels", I would figure it's about a bunch of ladies who can't get a date!

[Wineslob]

I thought it was a Mandingo movie.