Do I just know stuff other people don't, or is this person really, really ignorant?
Interview with Rebecca Lenkiewicz, writer of play on the suffragettes which is going to be produced in the National Theatre:
'I wrote the play because I felt the suffragettes had been forgotten. They suffered so much.
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She was particularly shocked by the way the suffragettes were force-fed in jail.
Wot????
Because, in the 90th year since women got the limited parliamentary franchise, and the 80th year since the 'flapper vote' gave it to them on equal terms with men (see this utterly annoyingly trivialising piece a few pages earlier in the Observer Review), no-one, but no-one, has ever heard of the suffragettes and the fact that they went on hunger-strike and were force-fed in prison. Have they?
Okay, I knew about the suffragettes even before watching the 70s series Shoulder to Shoulder: but I don't really think this made me uniquely well-informed about the history of feminism.
[Poll will not let anyone actually answer it: am trying again in a fresh post]