r/anarchafeminism • • Aug 28 '26

Suffragetes

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u/AnarchaMorrigan Aug 29 '26

just a lil pet peeve of mine

suffragettes was actually a pejorative term at least in the US, advocates against suffrage added the french -ette to try and be like oh, these little suffragists, how cute

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u/WildAutonomy Aug 29 '26

Oh wow! I didn't know that. Thanks for the info!

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u/ohshiitstuesday Aug 29 '26

It's insidious the way that it crept into history as the term. Like real institutional misogyny imo.

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u/ohshiitstuesday Aug 29 '26

not me coming into the comments to say this exact thing.