How did US women manage to get the 18th amendent passed, before they received the right to vote (19th Amend.)?

Question

Feminists claim that women have less power than men. If so, why was it that US women used their natural power to nag men to get the 18th amendment passed (prohibition)?

It was only the 19th amendment that women got the vote.

Answer 1

What is it..."dregs of the GWS intellectual barrel" night on GWS?

Answer 2

Far more women were involved in the Temperence movement than in the Women's Suffrage movement.  The liquor industry vehemently opposed the women's suffrage campaign because they feared that votes for women would mean prohibition.  However, prohibition, as you rightly say, came before women got the vote all across the USA.  However, remember that a number of states had already given women the vote before the 19th amendment was passed.  In fact, Carrie Chapman Catt's policy was to work for state-by-state legislation for women's votes.

I think however that you are right about women basically nagging men into passing the 18th amendment.  in 'America's Women' Gail Collins writes:

'In 1873, just before Christmas, about eighty married women marched up to the saloons in Hillsboro, Ohio, demanding that they close forever.  The demonstations went on for months, attracting national attention.  A reporter from Cincinatti interviewed a Hillsboro man who said he and his friends walked into a bar and ordered drinks when "the rustle of women's wear attracted their attention, and looking up they saw what they thought was a crowd of a thousand ladies enering."  One of the horrified men saw his mother and sister, another his future mother-in-law.  Soon, women in small towns all over Ohio were kneeling in the snow before the town tavern, singing hymns and sometimes taking an axe to the bartender's wares.  Seemingly spontaneous assaults on saloons - which were in fact frequnetlyurged on by male temperence lecturers - occured in nearly 1,000 communities, involving tens of thousands of women over a period of about six months.  It was the start of an antialcahol crusade by America's middle-class women that would continue until Prohibition became the law of the land in 1919.

They distributed literature that chronicled the terrible fate that befell doubters who rebelled in even the smallest way against the antialcahol creed. (In one story, a farmer insisted on using a few barrels of apples to make hard cider.  His brilliant son sampled the drink and swiftly turned into a hopeless inebriate.)  Women urged their sons to sign temperence pledges and raised their daughters to regard a man who drank as the worst possible candidate for a husband.  The discovery that a suitor indulged even occasionally was enough to break off a relationship. "Lips that touch alcahol shall never touch mine." went the mantra of the day.'

Answer 3

Hahahaha, that's a really great point!  I never actually thought about that.  It's because feminists are idiots and they don't understand what our society is actually like.  I'm all for equal rights for women.  Feminists are idiots.  They're like the PETA of women's rights.

Answer 4

this question doesnt belong in Womens Studies.

It belongs in misogyny.

and stating that you dont know history

is only a good way of fooling Jerry Springer people, as a way of casting doubt, to make everyone meanly go "yeah!"

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However I dont beleive in being mean to anyone myself, and if someone wants to discuss a subject at all, that's honest enough, so

my answer is----> your question is loaded(designed to imply feminist = man hating angry bad person,  I guess (youknow, whatever Rush Limbaugh originally said to SAY they are.

I am deeply saddened by the prevailing ignorance thats been planted about what feminism is.

The 70 year movement to gain womens rights and the vote, starting with its inceptin at Seneca Falls where some normal folk met to discuss what they thought was wrong and needed to be corrected, and then wrote it down as their mission (The Declaration Of Sentiments), AND THEN WENT OUT ND GOT IT! is one of the most inspiring stories I can think of of people sticking up for themselves against a wrong, and of the possibility that we COULD BE building over time a more eqitable for all living arrangement.

Its no different, no different at all, for a sickening Republican toady creep (oh, yes he did do some sickening - i chose my words mindfully) to cast aspersions on what's actually wholesome and good (caring for the environment, peace, helping people, and NOT treating any segments - or singling out any sgments, to BE treaeted- as second (or ro be villified and hated)class.

I dont know how even his mother could support that man. ]

The damage he did to this country, and so to so many people, and all just to imagine he's so important while cheerleading the hatred and funmaking at so many.

FEMINISM IS NOT A BAD WORD!

Answer 5

Kept their legs crossed and burned supper until the wimps gave in.