By Eli Harman My argument against women’s suffrage depends on only 3 points. 1)

By Eli Harman

My argument against women’s suffrage depends on only 3 points.

1) Voting either directs violence, or is a substitute for it.

2) The preponderance of actual violence is supplied by men. And the preponderance of potential violence is *not supplied* by men.

3) Men and women vote differently, on average.

All three of these points are, I think, incontrovertible.

There is certainly much more which could be said on the matter. But this is all that actually needs to be said, to show that women’s suffrage is unstable, and necessarily ends in violence.

For democracy can never reconcile conflicting interests of priorities. It can only privilege some, at the expense of others. And the more women vote to advance their interests, or impose their priorities, at the expense of men’s, the more tension will build. And it can only build until it breaks, because it is men who are asked to supply the actual violence which carries the outcomes of elections into effect, or to refrain from potential violence to prevent the outcomes of elections from being carried into effect.

But we don’t have to do either.