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I actually made the argument a while back to a lady friend of mine that giving women the vote actually gave them a disproportionate amount of power, because when men were only voting, women still had a lot of influence over their men and therefore were influencing votes. The proof, in my opinion, is the fact that the 19th passed in the first place. Giving them the vote meant they got a vote AND influence over the votes of weaker-minded men.

So my lady friend doesn't say anything about it at the time, but doesn't talk to me for a good two weeks, after which she calls me up out of the blue and says "Did you really mean that?" I said "Mean what?" "That women shouldn't vote." Turns out she was stomping mad about that to the point of wanting to cry and end our friendship. After she told me that, I said, "So you've been mad about a silly conversation we had two weeks ago? Well, there's another reason women shouldn't vote."

So two weeks go by...