Richard Lyon
Sep 5, 2018 · 1 min read

You might consider adding a crisp, white feather, like the ones your namesake handed to voteless, working class boys as an emblem of cowardice in the attempt to shame them into going to their death on the WW1 front line (some teenage boys would be so ashamed and frightened that they would commit suicide as a consequence). Oh, and a cut-out-and-keep print of her memorable (although now forgotten) thoughts on the independence of women:

“The least that men can do is that every man of fighting age should prepare himself to redeem his word to women, and to make ready to do his best, to save the mothers, the wives and daughters of Great Britain from outrage too horrible even to think of” – (Emiline Pankhurst)

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Richard Lyon

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Liberal egalitarian. Passive House owner. Traveller. Photographer.

Feminist Watch

Feminism claims that sexism can be overcome by revealing it. We agree.

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