The Jists & The Jets
We celebrate the Suffragettes –
Those terrorists made good,
Forgetting all the Suffragists
As a passive sisterhood.
Yet the former wanted only wealthy women
To get the vote,
While the latter wanted not just Chelsea women
To make the quote.
We also forget the unsung million
Of women manning the factories,
Who did far more to shift opinion
That a violent few reaction’ries.
Yet Emmaline the Tory succeeded
Over Millicent’s thwarted pen –
It seems what women most needed
Was to vote for the same old men.
Rhyming Couplets 