What point is Alice Duer Miller making? Alice Duer Miller is making the point that not one Congressmen voted against the bill that would make it unlawful to ship goods produced by children under 14 years of age over state lines in the states where women can vote for the congressmen. The point is, in the states where women can vote for their representatives, the representatives represent them (women) and women’s rights whereas in the states that women can’t vote for their representation, the Congressmen for their state do not take into account women’s rights or policies.
What do you think the impact of the poem was? I think that the impact of the poem showed the true difference in representation between states with different laws. Also,…show more content… Because man's place is the armory.
2. Because no really manly man wants to settle any question otherwise than by fighting about it.
3. Because if men should adopt peaceable methods women will no longer look up to them.
4. Because men will lose their charm if they step out of their natural sphere and interest themselves in other matters than feats of arms, uniforms and drums.
5. Because men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them peculiarly unfit for the task of government.
In the poem above, Miller gives reasons why men shouldn’t be allowed to vote, and the point she is making is that why is the reason women are not allowed to vote, the things that they are expected to do in society. Why does the stereotype of a woman hold her back from voting when the stereotype of a man does not hold him back from voting and holding office? I think that the reaction of people during Miller’s time would have been mixed, I think that the people for women suffrage would rally behind it while people against women’s suffrage would be forced to change their reasons for withholding the right to vote. My personal reaction was “Yeah, you go girl!!!” as I think many women’s reactions’ at this time would be, and that’s why I picked
