There’s a lot of crap that they don’t teach you about suffragettes, such as the lies that they regularly spread or how they rushed to defend a woman that bashed in her newborn baby’s skull. Putting her to death would be, and I quote, "a far more horrible infanticide than was the killing of her child." Then there’s the equating women not being able to vote with slavery, ignoring the reasoning behind women not voting (namely that only men were supposed to serve in the military or pay taxes, the two primary burdens placed upon citizens in return for the right to vote), and the list just goes on.

Feminism has been like this from the start. The internet has just aired that dirty laundry that so many women and news outlets were willing to sweep under the rug. Decades- and centuries-old lies that people just believe to be true because they were taught that they were. But actually going back and fact-checking these assumptions finds a much different story.