Welcome to your Friday Night Live.

It's Stefan Mullen. You from Free Domain.

We're talking to 18th of April, 2024.

I hope you're doing well.

Thank you for joining me for philosophy tonight.

And I'm happy to take your questions, issues, challenges, problems, whatever is on your mind.

I will strive to bring the various pull goats of philosophy

in a line to get you to the next place, the better place as a whole.

So I am, of course, happy to take your questions, comments, whatever is on your mind. I am thrilled

to hear. And I don't know if you've seen this. Just, well, we're waiting for the questions to come in.

You know that there's this kind of constant thing about how women didn't get the right

to vote. Women needed the right to vote. You know, the period where all men could vote,

but women could not vote, was a tiny blip in humanity as a whole.

And this is what Alexander wrote.

This is at date psych on X.

Western men didn't gain the universal right to vote until about 150 years ago.

When people talk about how women's voting rights need to be restricted because that is how it was always done.

We should keep in mind that Western civilization was built on the rule by a small aristocracy.

This was the landscape. A supermajority of men were not allowed to hold even a single scrap of political power.

Even among the minority of men who were, their power was restricted to the village and the township. Their, quote, betters, as he writes, did not believe

that common men had the sense to govern themselves. When men began to expand the right to vote,

it was largely based on property ownership. He says, I see modern variations such as married men

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