{"id":337,"date":"2003-08-19T17:13:25","date_gmt":"2003-08-20T01:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/08\/19\/the-greatest-people-well-men-of-the-20th-century\/"},"modified":"2003-08-19T17:13:25","modified_gmt":"2003-08-20T01:13:25","slug":"the-greatest-people-well-men-of-the-20th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"The greatest people – well, men – of the 20th century"},"content":{"rendered":"

Right Wing News has released its poll of lefty bloggers – “Left-Wing Bloggers Select The Greatest Figures Of The 20th Century.” I was disappointed with the paucity of women on the list – Eleanor Roosevelt and Marie Curie both deserve to be on such a list, I’m sure. But shouldn’t at least one<\/em> suffragette be on the list? (I would have voted for Alice Paul). And how about Ella Baker – a woman who was arguably just as important to the civil rights movement as Martin Luther King Jr., who was the figure the most left-wingers voted for?<\/p>\n

When the right-wingers came out with their list, there was some criticism<\/a> of how sexist it was. I’m disappointed – but not surprised – that the left-wing bloggers polled didn’t do any better.<\/p>\n

Ah, well. Check out this post<\/a> (and the comments following) for more women who should be included on lists like this one, but are too-often left off. (Admittedly, not everyone mentioned in that post is from the 20th century, and no non-Americans are included… but I’m feeling too lazy to make a “great 20th century not-necessarily-American women” post right now.)<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Matthew Yglesias <\/a>comments:<\/p>\n

Where Are The Women<\/b>: The only woman on the rightwing list is Margaret Thatcher and the liberals named only Marie Curie. Moreover, neither of these people strike me as particularly significant figures in world history, though Thatcher is obviously a major figure (for better or for worse) in British history. Feminism seems to have gone missing. This is odd, because apart from the essentially negative accomplishment of not succumbing to Nazi rule, the revolution in gender relations is probably the signal political achievement of the twentieth century. Not to slight Civil Rights, but this was basically a parochial American issue, whereas the impact of feminism has reached everywhere and continues to send shockwaves throughout both the developed world (largely, though not exclusively, under the guise of the campaign for gay equality) and the developing world where the basics of sex equality remain controversial.<\/div>\n

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