Watching the video of the man telling a group of women that the vote was gifted to women by men; and not one, it seemed, had the presence of mind to retort:

"It was men who took it from women; it was men who maintained that abrogation. That same majority you now praise."



I do not attribute those women present with anything like a moral failure. How could anyone not be utterly gobsmacked by such a thing?

I suppose we are somewhere between being close to that former state as evidenced in that man's functional illiteracy; and yet, so far from it that when such retrograde, obstreperous, willful ignorance displays itself, we are almost all unprepared to deal with it in the only effective manner. I suppose those who are capable of reason and progress must re-learn the proper response to such things.

Seriously: if you have not viewed it, do so and freeze it as the camera focuses on the woman in the brown dress at the podium; and watch how the women in the background react. It's as if each one asks the same (yet unuttered) question: "How can this man be completely ignorant?" Never mind asking " Where has our system of education failed?" or "How did this ignoramus obtain a seat on the Board of Education?"