Tuesday, September 10, 2013

A Jury Duty Film?

At jury duty this morning we watched a film. It was supposed to be an introduction on jury duty but instead it was a film about diversity. One particular part irked me: there was a substantial point that women weren't allowed on juries until 1950 well after the first African American man was. But they neglected to give any reason but the insinuation that misogynist men just wanted all the power for themselves. They neglected to say that a possible reason might have been that women had already long been jurors and judges in their own homes for millennia and couldn't be bothered with the more mundane affairs of the State. It was in the home that the important work was done.

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