A fan of Ernie Bushmiller's comic strip "Nancy" posted a strip from 23 October 1944, in which Sluggo tells Nancy that he wants to run for "president of d' neighborhood". He refuses Nancy's offer to make speeches for him because "goils don't know how to make speeches". So Nancy starts running for the office herself! – Just as Nancy decides to run for office when Sluggo chooses to silence her, men refusing to take women seriously or even refusing to let them speak catalyzed both the Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in July 1848 and the second wave of feminism that began in the United States in the 1960s. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 24 October 2024)
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