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I like to do similar things on banknotes with a typewriter
Defacing money, that’s a paddling.
Having a vagina and wanting to vote, that’s a paddling.
They also blew up mailboxes.
And my mind
Why is it not reversed? Was it not used as a stamp? Do i miss something? Am I being stupid? Were they being stupid?
They used something like these
These are still used in industries like locksmithing, too!
Ah thanks. Looks fairly labor-intensive but I suppose you don’t need ink and it looks more permanent
Love it
They also killed people with bombs and at least one of them went on to be a prominent member of the British union of fascists.
The latter isn’t justified, but I do believe the systemic disenfranchisment of half the population to the degree we weren’t permitted to vote does justify violent response, even if I think bombs are generally a bad weapon due to their imprecision.
The evidence presented here suggests that the ‘Votes for Women’ coins, or at least those that can be relatively securely attributed to an early date, were defaced by the same set of alphabet punches and, by inference, the same hand, in the years 1913–14. Symbolically, the practice of defacing a coin represented the same ideological protest against the laws of the country as other acts of suffragette militarism. Yet their potential impact as circulating instruments of propaganda was limited by the unsophisticated and inefficient way in which they were produced. The study has suggested that comparatively few were made, and that the campaign was sustained over a relatively brief period. Instead, ‘Votes for Women’ coins owe their current prominence within suffragette material culture to institutional intervention which, although well-intentioned, has inadvertently stimulated the production of forgeries. Despite their recent inclusion in the suffragette historiography, therefore, these coins were, for the best part of a century, of peripheral relevance to the story of how women gained the vote.
The Streisand Effect working long before there was a name for it hahaha. Cool little part of history!
