moirroar:

w0manifest:

It’s so unfair that the women who lead the Temperance movement (which led to  alcohol prohibition in the 1920s in the US) are painted as these joyless prudish nags who hated when others had fun, when really their issue was the fact that male failure to responsibly consume alcohol led to the rape, neglect, battery, and murder of their wives and children. They couldn’t stop male violence, but they did what they could to stop what exacerbated it. 

My male libertarian friend who doesn’t think he’s sexist at all called these women evil. Yes, actually evil. I had to explain to him that these weren’t women just looking to ruin men’s fun, but women who’s lives were being actually ruined by men’s drinking. The drinkers weren’t evil, the gangs of men bootlegging and killing each other weren’t evil, the men in the government who passed prohibition laws weren’t evil. No, it was the women trying to make their lives livable in the face of male destruction. Women couldn’t even fucking vote. Anyway check out Carrie Nations story, there an episode of Drunk History on it. She was a total badass.