Prank aims to “stop women’s suffrage�


Oh dear.

A Delaware teen
got dozens of students at a girls’ school to sign a petition “against women’s suffrage.�

…Will Albino and Brian Giarrocco, both of Salesianum School in Wilmington, took their video camera to the campus of nearby Padua Academy to ask students there to sign their petition calling for an end to women’s suffrage.
Time and again the girls eagerly grabbed Albino’s pen and spiral notebook to sign their names against their own future voting rights. One girl responded by claiming “But it already ended .. for the most part.” Another shrugged indifferently as her friend told her “that’s your right to vote!”
The boys submitted the video for their own school’s morning newscast, but administrators suppressed the damning footage.

First of all, these guys get no points for originality. Comedy Central’s The Man Show pulled this stunt a couple of years back. And truth be told, I don’t know what to be more distressed by–the fact that young women had no idea what “suffrageâ€? meant, or the underlying message of the prank: that women really are too stupid to deserve to vote.

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