The Destructive Male By Elizabeth Cady Argument

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an equal rights activist and suffragist. Before her work as a feminist, Elizabeth was an active abolitionist with with her husband and cousin. Unlike a lot of of women’s rights activists, she focuses on much more than suffrage and voting rights. She fought many battles still fought today. Elizabeth gave a speech titled “The Destructive Male” at a women’s rights convention in Washington D.C. in 1868. This speech was delivered 20 years after her first, but you can still hear the same frustration and anger in her words. In this speech, she argues that men have a history of being selfish, angry and war-loving, therefore being destructive. She believes that women could help bring more peace into the world, “for woman knows