It’s Time to Acknowledge Notable Women in American History

From the SpearheadFiles
Originally Published on May 25, 2011

I think it’s high time that we the sheeple that populate these fringes of teh Interwebz, offer a conciliatory gesture of peace towards the female gender. There’s been too much anger towards the fairer sex ’round these parts as of late, and it’s time we MAN UP and give some props to notable females in US History, many of whom deserve recognition for their lifetime achievements. For this article, I wish to focus on those women who were successful entrepreneurs, property owners and businesswomen in the 19th century.

One such noteworthy lady is the woman pictured at the top of this piece, Madam CJ Walker.

Like most Americans, Sarah suffered from scalp diseases and hair loses. She resolutely wanted to find a cure and started experimenting with home remedies. She found that that application of sulfur can heal most of the hair problems cure which led her to produce her own shampoo and hair ointments which soon after she began selling. She traveled to various states demonstrated he products and even attempted door to door sales. As her popularity grew she established her factory at Indianapolis in 1910 and also started Lelia College to train beauty therapists. She was loved and respected because of her philanthropic contributions for education, childcare, rehabilitation programs and her unflinching efforts to improve living conditions of black women. She gave speeches on political and economic problems at major occasions and she was widely appreciated for her opinions and stands.She breathed her last on May 25th 1919 due to complications from hypertension at an age of 52. Her daughter Lelia stepped into the shoes of her mother and became the proprietor of an million dollar empire that she had left behind. Madam CJ Walker Biography till date provides inspiration to millions of impoverished women striving to curve a respectable life for themselves.

A million dollar empire in 1919 was approximately $13 million in today’s Fiat Federal Reserve Notes. And not only was she a member of the oppressed womynz gender, but she was also an African-American to boot! According to oft repeated memes by today’s feminists, that’s impossible!

Or what about Margaret Borland?

Margaret married at age 19 and gave birth to a daughter a year later. Soon afterwards her husband died in a gun battle in the streets of Victoria. Margaret’s second husband succumbed to cholera in 1852, leaving her with two more young daughters to support. Within four years Margaret married the richest rancher in the county. She bore four more children and partnered in running the ranch until 1867, when a yellow fever epidemic spread along the Texas coast. Margaret ministered to her ailing family as best she could, but death relentlessly claimed her husband, four-year-old son, 15-year-old daughter, two daughters who had married the previous year, and an infant grandson.

Now sole owner of the ranch, Margaret capably managed operations and enlarged its holdings. In 1873 she drove her own herd up the Chisholm Trail, accompanied by several ranch hands, her three surviving children, and her six-year-old granddaughter. The group succeeded in reaching the booming cowtown of Wichita, Kansas, but Margaret fell ill with “trail fever” and died in a local boardinghouse before she could sell her cattle.
Margaret Borland’s life parallels the momentous social, political, and economic changes of 19th century Texas. She was earnest and resourceful until the end.

Now how did she get away with being the “…sole owner of the ranch,” and “capably managed operations and enlarged its holdings.” in the time before the suffrage movement and Patriarchal oppression?

What about Mary Ann Hall? (No picture available)

In 1840, a stagnant canal drained through the center of Washington, dividing the area where the Smithsonian Castle stands from the rest of the city. The area was called “The Island.” A few blocks to the east is where Mary Ann Hall settled, started a business, saved her money, and where she eventually built a large, three-story brick home. Mary Ann was just in her early twenties, and the neighborhood was–rough. Nearby neighborhoods were nicknamed “Louse Alley,” and even “Murderer’s Row.” While the census records show that most single women here listed their occupation as seamstress or laundress, Mary Ann’s occupation isn’t recorded anywhere. But all the physical evidence indicates she was an extremely successful businesswoman.

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District of Columbia court records show that at the time of her death, Mary Ann Hall was worth a grand total of $87,000, with no debts–that’s well over $2,000,000 in today’s dollars. The records also show a list of her belongings, which included Belgian carpets, oil paintings, an ice box, numerous pieces of red plush furniture, as well as an inordinate number of sheets, mattresses, blankets, feather pillows and comforters.

Hmmmm….so not only could own property, they could actually do so back in 1840 without ever being married, but simply through their own entrepreneurial efforts? You don’t say?

Here’s another notable woman from America’s oppressive Patriarchal past, Lydia Pinkham

Some would call her the Ann Landers or Dr. Ruth of the 1800s. In 1875, Lydia Estes Pinkham of Lynn, Massachusetts, converted her herbal home remedies into a big business by skillfully marketing her products toward women and educating them about health issues. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound became one of the best-known patent medicines of the 19th century. Pinkham was deemed a crusader for women’s health in an age when women’s needs weren’t being met by the medical community. Cooper Laboratories bought the company in 1968, though pills and a liquid stamped with Pinkham’s name are still available at some drugstores.

How about another “impossible” woman from US history? Note Elizabeth Arden

She brought makeup from the stage to everyday life and slowly developed a global empire. Elizabeth Arden, born Florence Nightingale Graham in Woodbridge, Ontario, moved to New York at the age of 30 to pursue her dream of building a cosmetics corporation. There she began working with a chemist to create a beauty cream, something new for the cosmetics industry at that time. After traveling to Paris in 1912, Arden became the first person to introduce the concept of eye makeup to American women and offered the first makeovers in her 5th Avenue salon. Arden died in 1966, but her brand became as well-known across the U.S. as Singer sewing machines and Coca-Cola. At the end of its fiscal year in June 2007, the company reported $1.1 billion in net sales, up more than 18 percent from $955 million in 2006.

Now here we have five examples of notable women from the pages of American history, deserving of genuine acknowledgment for their achievements as business owners, property owners and entrepreneurs. Somehow, this actual history of such women is often ignored or glossed over when your average 21st century indoctrinated feminist-sheeple casually repeats the meme: “Women couldn’t own property!”


For example:

The History Behind the Equal Rights Amendment

The new Constitution’s promised rights were fully enjoyed only by certain white males. Women were treated according to social tradition and English common law and were denied most legal rights. In general they could not vote, own property, keep their own wages, or even have custody of their children.

Or here: “Years ago women couldn’t vote or own property.”

Or here. “For years, the social scene at Harvard mimicked the gender norms of an era where women couldn’t own property.”

Or here: “In 1848, women obeyed men everywhere, even in their own homes. Women couldn’t own property either.”

Or here: “In the past, American women did not have the same rights as men. They couldn’t own property. They couldn’t attend the same colleges. And they couldn’t vote.”

Or here: “I mean, sure, women couldn’t own property or vote or practice law or anything, but I bet they’d trade that for having doors held open for them regularly anytime!”

Or here: “For a long time, women couldn’t own property, have jobs, or participate in politics.”

Or here: “This week I am co-chairing an event for the American Civil Liberties Union in my hometown. It’s going to be a wondrous evening full of amazing art and talented people. The ACLU will always need funding to continue their work protecting all of our civil liberties. I don’t work in those trenches every day, but I am thankful for those that do. Every issue women face – every obstacle they overcome – was and is a civil liberties issue. It wasn’t very long ago that women couldn’t vote, that women couldn’t own property and that women had very little control over their bodies and its intended freedoms.”

Or here: “When women couldn’t own property, vote, or be in most professions, someone could have (and many did) made the case that simply allowing divorce for women in abusive marriages wouldn’t automatically make things all rosy for them.”

Or here: “until the 1920′s, women couldn’t VOTE, in most US states women couldn’t OWN PROPERTY, and often wasn’t even the one paid for her labor – no, her husband, father, brother, son, or other male was paid because women WERE NOT CONSIDERED PEOPLE.”

Or here: “Oh, and the older I get, the more I remind myself and respect how much old-school feminists have accomplished. To see young women utterly unable to understand that women couldn’t own property or vote or get credit cards or bank accounts in their own names is a beautiful thing.”

Or how about this Barne’s & Noble book review regarding Abigail Adams?: “In a time when women couldn’t own property or manage their own money, Abigail was accruing enormous wealth through speculation on government bonds.”

Or this statement: “Education Secretary Fiona Hyslop said: ‘Without the suffragists and suffragettes, we would still be stuck in an age when women couldn’t own property, they couldn’t hold public positions and they couldn’t vote.’”

Or here’s another example of the casual way the meme is regularly regurgitated: “Consider the country’s state at the Founding — only landowners could vote. Women couldn’t own property.“

Or how about while presenting a list of the top 10 richest Women in America in 2011: “There was a time in American history, that seems not that long ago, where women couldn’t own property or even vote. However, times have changed. Women have been elevated to a status where their names can make this list as well as the ten richest people in America.”

All the preceding quotations where taken from a quick google search of the phrase “Women couldn’t own property.” They represent statements from articles, blog posts, book reviews and anonymous commentary.

{At the time this piece was written for The Spearhead, all of the preceding links worked. Most still do, but several of them can't be found on the original site or at archive.org.}  

Funny isn’t it, how the meme that “woman couldn’t own property” has become a widely accepted truth by most denizens of our Brave New World Order, and is expressed as a universally accepted statement of fact over teh interwebz?

I guess the Womynz Studies and liberal/progressive Professors in Universities across the land forgot to indoctrinate educate their students about all the wonderful success stories of notable women in American history who owned property, ran businesses and amassed personal wealth through their own ingenuity and hard work. I guess their stories contradict the feminist’s revision of history, so I'm sad to note that these ladies will never get there just due in today’s brainwashing facilities institutions of higher learning.

How ironic is it that it takes a hateful, bitter misogynist here at this infamous outpost of womyn hatred, to correct this gross injustice, and white knight for these courageous and brave ladies of the past who’ve been ignored and marginalized by the feminist zeitgeist for too long?

It’s time to put them back up on their pedestals where they belong!





Notable Commentary from the Original Post

 Anonymous Reader May 25, 2011 at 07:46

   This approach to political operations is certainly not new. For example, consider this noted liar:

All this was inspired by the principle–which is quite true within itself–that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.  —Adolf Hitler , Mein Kampf, vol. I, ch. X

Opus May 25, 2011 at 07:58

I am not a legal Historian but perhaps as an Appendix to the above, it might be of interest to compare the position in England and Wales. In 1882 an Act of Parliament – The Married Women’s Property Act was passed allowing married women to own property including land. Previously a woman ceased to have a separate legal identity on marriage at which point all her goods became her husbands. This was not however a one-sided deal, as (most women marry having little by way of property anyway) she was now to be protected by her husband for the rest of her life, indeed as most women marry up it was a very good arrangement for her. Better still her husband became responsible for her debts. In pratice even to this day a married couple in practice treat their possessions as joint possessions and for that matter tend to vote for the same candidate in elections.

The position for single women and widows was quite different in that they – being femme sole – could own property including land in their own right. As I was indicating yesterday in the post concerned with Michael Faraday, voting rights depended as much on land as sex so that many, indeed most men had no right to vote in parliamentary elections.

By an act of 1919 women were allowed to qualify as Solicitors of the Supreme Court (Attorney) and after much aggitation a few having sat the examinations did so, but then for the next fifty years or so the women seemed little interested in becoming Solicitors. I do not know what the position was for women who aspired to the dizzy heights of being a member of The Bar (Barristers). (England and Wales have a split legal profession).

In spite of all this I cannot immediately think of any famous Victorian Women apart from Ms Nightingale – so I suppose they were all being oppressed by ‘The Patriarchy’.




demirogue May 25, 2011 at 08:43

Shhh! How dare ye stir up controversy by telling the truth. Femitwats don’t care for it. As a matter of fact women in general don’t believe in it either. The enormous sales and use of cosmetics alone is proof of that.



Keyster May 25, 2011 at 08:48

Academic feminists are not only careful to avoid pointing out successful women of the “pre-feminist era”, most of these women were very much opposed to women’s suffrage, and feminism is general. They simply didn’t see the need for it.

Yes, even if you’re dead and gone, but didn’t tow the feminist party line in your writings…they’ll dismiss you as if you never existed at all.

Annie Oakely, who was basically an entertainer as a freakish woman who was good with guns, was very outspoken about what a bad idea women’s rights would be, for all the same reasons we now know to be true.

Read more commentary after the jump...

Are We There Yet?

America....FUCK YEAH!

It's now undeniable. America has jumped the shark.

Let us review:


Officially recognized TRANSformation of the world's greatest military into an LGBT freakshow?

Supreme Court usurping the legislative branch to impose the normalization of homogamy?

Oregon Bakery fined $135,000 for citing their Christian faith as their reason for refusing to make a wedding cake for a gay nuptial ceremony?

Over 55 million abortions since the Supreme Court usurped the legislative branch to impose legalized infanticide? And the foremost provider of abortions was caught on video selling fetus body parts?

The Boy Scouts of America no longer focus on training future generations of homophobic arsonists and gun nuts, but instead are now reversing course and officially sanctioning homosexual scoutmasters to facilitate alone-time with pubescent boys in secluded locales?

One of America's greatest Gold Medal winning Olympians is celebrated for TRANSformational deviancy?

President of the National Organization for the Advancement of Colored People was a white woman pretending to be black?

The number one tell-a-vision series in the country features graphic depictions of incest, rape, murder, rape, debauchery, rape, torture, homo deviant trysts, prostitution and more rape? 

Millions of women inundate teh Interwebz with selfies taken with their handheld mobile affirmation devices in provocative poses to receive their daily narcissism fix?

Beautiful women of fertile age who are physically ready to bear and raise the next generation of our country's children...are instead trading their dignity and chastity to Dubai's decadent jet set who consider it entertaining to gang bang them, defecate on their faces and get them to engage in beastiality, in exchange for five star resort vacation experiences and shopping sprees at luxury brand retail outlets?

Over 45 million citizens, or about 14% of the overall population are now on food stamps? And rather than suffering from hunger, most recipients are more likely to be obese?

Presided for nearly a decade by a President who has a forged birth certificate and a faked background?

Deliberately spraying the skies above population centers with chemicals on a near daily basis, in the name of "engineering the weather" and "solar radiation management?"

Flying drones in the hinterlands of third world countries to blow up goat herders and poppy farmers?

Endlessly promoting racial violence and riots in the mass media?

Constantly hyping horrific events in which lunatics on psyche meds who go on shooting sprees, with the specific goal to eventually overturn the Second Amendment?

Case after case after case, year after year, all across the blighted plains, of public school indoctrinators having sexual relations with their students?
  

US Military practicing the implementation of martial law in States all across the country this summer? What do you think THEY are really getting ready for?

Citizens and patriots from sea to shining sea, do we not have so much to be thankful for? We are a part of the greatest country on the face of the earth! Aren't you proud of the direction we are moving in as a nation?


It seems as if the whole world is progressively progressing faster and faster towards our engineered Brave New World Order ...and America Inc. is leading the way! Join me in showing our patriotism and pride and hoist the flag way up high as we lead the march ever onwards towards progressive social justice and equality for all!

Project Indigo Skyfold

Do some independent research on the topic of chemtrails, and sort through all the misformed disinformation designed to distract, deride, and delude the masses, and you come across some very interesting information and testimonials from credible witnesses regarding what is widely considered conspiracy theory or tinfoil hat territory.

Yet any citizen of our Brave New World Order who manages to look up from their handheld soma devices long enough to behold the grid lines of nano particles being laid across the skies of our world by unmarked planes flying at high altitudes, can plainly see what's going on...if only they can believe what their eyes are beholding. But most I'm sure simply default to the mainstream mass media programming.

Pay no mind, Sheeple! Nothing to see here, those are just naturally occurring contrails from normal air traffic operations! 

Every time I have traveled to the mainland of USA Inc. in the past five years, I've seen them.

I've also lived for the past two decades with an elevated view from the mountains surrounding Pearl Harbor, Hickam Air Force Base, and the Honolulu International Airport on O'ahu, and I have seen more than my share of contrails from military jets streaking across the Hawaiian skies. I've never seen contrails from commercial jets, but plenty from fighter jets. I also see these contrails dissipate within minutes, and I've never seen them fly for extended durations at higher altitudes, laying down a grid pattern over my island home.

Perhaps THEY don't want to spray their most important military installations in the Pacific...or maybe they've figured out that Hawaiian trade winds dissipate chemtrails too quickly so they don't bother wasting their efforts here...but I've seen plenty of contrails in my time, and on various trips around the USA Inc., I've seen the much different looking chemtrail gridlines painting the sky and take many hours to dissipate into a gray, hazy fog. I've seen the slowly dissipating chemtrail grids in California, in Nevada, in Utah, in Arizona.

Go surf teh Interwebz, and consult with Googliath and you'll find folks from New Zealand to France to Australia, people from all over the world have noticed the global spraying operations being carried out in their local skies. As one expert witness testified amongst a wide ranging line up of credible speakers giving testimonials on the topic of chemtrails found in this compelling video:

"These tests are international...we're seeing this all over the world."

Since I have the temerity to believe my own lying eyes, and since I don't care if people consider my writing to be the ravings of a "conspiracy theorist" (get it straight, I'm a conspiritard!), I'm just going to say it - I think it's indisputable fact that THEY are spraying something all over the world, and we are only just beginning to see the consequences of this black-ops chemical-testing on we the sheeple. Note the testimonial of the man who noted that aluminum in underarm deodorant was linked to alzheimers...and that we are now seeing a quadrupling of the cases of alzheimers amongst the populace.

You can go to websites like this, and find copious links to official documents exposed that tie in this global spraying to the Global Climate Change Cabal of Enviro-commies. "Project Indigo Skyfold" is purportedly the world's governments signing on to combat global warming by spraying nano-particle metals like aluminum, barium and manganese into the atmosphere to supposedly mitigate the effects of man-made climate change. They call it "Geo-engineering" and "Solar Radiation Management."  I think the truth of the matter is that they are invoking climate change to justify spraying the the world's populace like bugs.

Why?

Remember, THEY already told us. It's already been set in stone.

MAINTAIN HUMANITY UNDER 5000,000,000 IN PERPETUAL BALANCE WITH NATURE

I also believe that in the present, there exists no other "controversial" topic of psy-op wars and disinfo propagation that is currently being waged in cyberspace than on the topic of chemtrails. The paid shills and cognitive infiltrators infest every nook and cranny of teh Interwebz, ready to compose mini-novellas employing all of the logical fallacies used in dishonest and deceptive rhetorical propaganda to keep the average sheeple asleep. I hope these shills are enjoying their thirty pieces of silver, because in the end, they are playing their own part in what is quite obviously a secret, nefarious agenda that affects every living thing on this planet.

Note the wildlife expert discussing the dramatic rise in metals found in the soils and surface water in the YouTube vid posted above. Note the concern of mass die offs of insects, and plummeting fish populations. I don't see a single raving lunatic in the throes of madness, spewing insanity in these testimonials. But to read the ad hominems, the appeals to authority and the invocation of our holy secular religion of infallible SCIENCE, by the shills infesting the comment boxes of any blog or publication discussing chemtrails, is to believe that anyone who would dare approach a podium and give the sorts of testimonies given in this video, are nothing more than chicken littles panicking that the sky is falling.

The one tell that gives away these obvious shills is that they are far to emphatic and care way too much about the topic. Who's got the time to spend hours on end writing multi-paragraph responses as a tireless rebutter that never lets anyone get the last word in, in an attempt to discredit discussions on this particular topic? Someone who's getting a paycheck for their efforts, that's who. In the end, these shills are just as guilty as the pilots and the officers and the agents and the officials and the maintenance men and anyone else associated with this "Project Indigo Skyfold."

THEY are spraying us all, and you only need look up into your skies to see it. LOOK!