Lemonnotta.

Have you ever heard the saying,

if you don't stand for something,

you'll fall for something. You'll fall for anything. I remember hearing it years ago and

nodding along thinking, that makes sense to me. Just stand for something.

Stand for something good. But not everyone sees it that way, especially when it comes to women.

I started to notice this almost default eye roll when someone would mention a woman fighting for a cause and almost

oh here she goes again or maybe it was more of stand for something why can't she just sit down and you know the rest? The

unspoken annoyance that seemed to swirl around women in activism was astounding to me and I couldn't

quite wrap my head around it I still can't. But then I realized as with most

things while it may manifest itself differently, or in different

shapes or forms or ways, it's not new.

This has been going on for a long time. And I had read this New York Times piece,

maybe a year or so ago. And in it, journalist and author Elaine Weiss, she recounts the term

suffragette. And she explains in the piece that in 1906, this term, this word suffragette, which is a fraught term, was created by a journalist

for a well-known UK publication.

Or shall I say tabloid? And she says the name of this notorious

publication which still exists but I'm not going to elevate them by mentioning it here. In this piece, she says that the journalist was, quote, making fun of the more militant suffragists

in the UK, and so he used the diminutive et to belittle them.

Now as we all know with the word suffrageet,

this became adopted the world over

to refer to women in the suffrage movement.

...