Women's child-bearing hips too wide to fit in voting booth, say men - The Beaverton

Women’s child-bearing hips too wide to fit in voting booth, say men

An excerpt from The Beaverton Presents Glorious and/or Free: The True History of Canada. Available where books are sold.

January 31st, 1916

WINNIPEG – Despite desperate pleas regarding hip span from gentlemen in the field of lady studies, the government is going ahead with its controversial plans to give the vote to all .

“Voting booths are too narrow for the shape of a ,” explained Alistair Matthews, leader of the recently founded Gentlemen League for the Protection of Voting Booths. “That scoundrel Agnes Macphail wants to destroy our longstanding traditions and make wide-hipped women feel claustrophobic. This evil must be stopped!”

However, Premier Tobias Norris steadfastly refused to listen the the experts on the destructive consequences of granting female suffrage. The legislature unanimously passed a bill permitting women to cast a ballot in the next provincial .

has demonstrated that a woman’s posterior acetabular rim can be five degrees wider than a man’s, far exceeding the width of a typical voting station,” said Matthews pointing to a diagram of a lady shape.

In related , a building was evacuated in the downtown area after a radical suffragette detonated her opinion.

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