Why is it incorrect to say that the vote was granted to women?

Answer 1

Shouldn't be, it was. If someone is hung up on granted, I think definition 1b straigtens that out.

Even if someone wants to argue that it was their right that shouldn't have been taken in the past, the vote was still granted to women. Don't you hate when someone makes an argument out of nothing but semantics?

Main Entry: 1grant
Pronunciation: 'grant
Function: transitive verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French granter, graanter, from Vulgar Latin *credentare, from Latin credent-, credens, present participle of credere to believe -- more at CREED
1 a : to consent to carry out for a person : allow fulfillment of b : to permit as a right, privilege, or favor
2 : to bestow or transfer formally ; specifically : to give the possession or title of by a deed
3 a : to be willing to concede b : to assume to be true

Answer 2

Well, technically it's not. The vote WAS granted to women by the other voters at that time, namely men. But it's probably not politically correct to say the vote was GRANTED because the women of the time FOUGHT VOCIFEROUSLY for many years to get that "grant". At least that's how the feminists view it. Feminists also don't want to acknowledge that men have given women anything.

It's the activists of our society that have really killed all polite discourse. Feminist activists, gay activists, black activists, they all just want to fight and be mean all the time. I prefer hanging out with the women, gays, and blacks who know how to chill out, you know?

Answer 3

What? Because its not "was," it "IS." In regard to women, suffragettes believed that the vote 'was' granted to women by the US Constitution; thus, that is one reason why women fought hard for the right to vote.

Answer 4

Political correctness. There were no women in Congress when Congress extended the right to vote to women.

It is the same with Negroes. There were no Negroes in Congress when Congress extended the right to vote for Negroes.

This has nothing to do with rightness or wrongness. It just is the way it was.

Answer 5

it all depends who that woman is, if it's my sister, don't vote, if it's my mother, vote, but usually woman aren't as good at being "forceful" as men, so it isn't incorrect to vote for women.

Answer 6

women fought for the right to vote.

Answer 7

Rights are never "granted" to minorities. Minorities always have to fight for their rights.

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Answer 8

because it gives the impression, that men were the 'grantors.'
When in reality voting should have been their right all along.