On Sunday, April 14, 2002, at 03:59 PM, Malcolm L. Carlock wrote: > Peter Gutmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> For some reason the mention of a "Susan B Anthony" dollar stuck in my >>> brain as >> >> Not being from the US I have no idea who either of those two are, but >> that does >> raise an interesting point: Maybe the reason no-one wants the coin is >> because >> of who's on it. > > Susan B Anthony is the George Washington of US Feminism (d 1906.) > > Supposedly, part of the reason the SBA dollar didn't catch on was that > the > profile of Ms Anthony was deliberately uglified on the orders of > meanies at the > US Mint. This being the 1970's, they presumably felt that a feminist > artifact > was being forced (as it were) down their throats. > > Someone certainly uglified it. I remember the coin clearly. The > change was > admitted at the time, and explained as making her appear "more stern" > (or > dignified, or somesuch.) A pity, since Ms Anthony in her younger days > was a > fair looker. Unfortunately, one could be forgiven for thinking the coin > commemorated The Wicked Witch of the West.
Portraying her in her younger, pre-fame days certainly would not have been balanced. Neither Washington nor Lincoln nor Jefferson nor Franklin nor...well, you get the point, were portrayed as they looked before their later years. I despise the PC "truth narrative" jabber, but in this case the feministas have a point: expecting a woman to be portrayed as a young and desireable woman while the guys on the coins and bills are portrayed as they looked as old farts is not kosher. (However, the real problem with putting Susan B. Anthony on our money is that she was a minor character compared to Lincoln, Washinton, Roosevelt, Jefferson, etc. It's like calling Crispus Attuck a "hero of the Revolutionary War." The old double standard.) --Tim May "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the Public Treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy always followed by dictatorship." --Alexander Fraser Tyler
