poll and analysis by Robel Wondimu ‘13

Results:
33 males and 32 females responded yes: Total of 65    students responded yes
27 males and 15 females responded no: Total of 42     students responded no

The Warrior conducted a poll asking students “Do you believe women’s suffrage should be abolished?” Two-thirds of the student body polled responded that it should. This alarming number can only be attributed to one of two things: students are ignorant and responded without knowing what they were being asked or the majority of people knew what they were asked and responded this way because they are misogynistic sexists. It’s probably the former because 49 percent of the students that responded yes were females. To be clear, the word abolished means to eliminate and the word suffrage means right to vote. So what is being asked in this poll is if you think women’s right to vote should be eliminated. For one reason or another people responded that it should be without knowing what either of these words meant. Maybe it was to seem insightful and smarter than they actually were or to make it seem like they had more to contribute to this poll than they did. The number one reason probably was they didn’t want to appear foolish. Whatever the reasons may be, the moral of this poll remains the same: be honest with yourself. If you don’t know what something means say you don’t know instead of ultimately embarrassing yourself. In the words of Abraham Lincoln, “[It is] better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”