'Suffragette' premieres in London

[ms_mmelissa]

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[merel_93]

That is one ugly and weird dress Carey is wearing. But whatever, she just had a baby and she looks lovely regardless.

[rainstormraider]

Correct me if I'm wrong (because I know you will ONTD) but weren't there black suffragettes that were part of this time and movement too?

[ms_mmelissa]

I don't believe there was a huge black population in the UK at the time, most black suffragettes (at least the famous ones) were in the US.

This article is pretty good about talking about woc suffragettes in the UK: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/feminism/2015/10/what-did-suffragette-movement-britain-really-look

[jongdashian]

tbh the online reaction to this film has been from a very USA centrist perspective, and I don't think it's fair (or accurate) to apply the white supremacy/anti-black attitudes of the USA suffragettes to the British suffragettes (especially as the British suffragettes were generally more militant, socialist, anti-imperialist, anti-colonial, etc.) However, I do think that it's a tragedy that this film won't feature Princess Sophia and the Indian suffragettes, and this erasure should really be the main 'problematic' complaint about this film imo.

[khaleesi129]

I've been reading about the U.K suffragettes, and they seemed to be very different from the U.S ones. The U.K suffragettes even welcomed Ida B. Well and was on her side when Well's question the racist U.S suffragette Frances Willard.

[itspokerface]

Carey D:

[fincherism]

carey's dress is fuck ugly.

[shigo_atrl]

Yawn tbh