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Why We Oppose Pockets for Women
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"Why We Oppose Pockets for Women" A poem by Alice Duer Miller.
Number one. Because pockets are not a natural right.
Number two. Because the great majority of women do not want pockets. If they did, they would have them.
Number three. Because wherever women have had pockets, they have not used them.
Number four Because women are required to carry enough things as it is without the additional burden of pockets.
Number five Because it would make dissension between husband and wife as to whose pockets were to be filled.
Number six Because it would destroy man 's chivalry toward woman if he did not have to carry all of her things in his pockets.
Number seven Because men are men and women are women. We must not fly in the face of nature.
Number eight Because pockets have been used by men to carry tobacco pipes, whiskey flasks, chewing gum and compromising letters. We see no reason to suppose that women would use them more wisely.
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In 1915, poet Alice Duer Miller published "Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times." Her poem titled "Why We Oppose Pockets for Women" is a satire about arguments against women voting.
Which arguments against women's equality sound relevant today?
Duration
1 minute, 3 seconds
Date Created
07/11/2020
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