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Not to mention all the fighting aged men were still in France during this time. Many wouldn’t be back until mid 1920.

(((They))) pushed women’s sufferage & prohibition in the meantime.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Victoria_of_the_United_Kingdom

Queen Victoria -

>I am most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of "Women's Rights," with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feelings and propriety. Feminists ought to get a good whipping. Were women to "unsex" themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.

>In an 1870 letter, quoted for example in All For Love: Seven Centuries of Illicit Liaison by Val Horsler (2006), p. 104. At the bottom of this page, it is mentioned that the comment was written in a letter to Sir Theodore Martin in reaction to news "that Viscountess Amberley had become president of the Bristol and West of England Women's Suffrage Society and had addressed a ... public meeting on the subject." The author of the page, Helena Wojtczak, says here that while other sources often fail to give the context, she "researched and discovered the source of the quote".

A lot of women also opposed sufferage because they thought being given men's rights would also mean being given men's responsibilities, which were often difficult and dangerous.