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that they'll go from one place to another
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-- think of the women in the castration scene in Decazville
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-- and that was reflective of the fact
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that women were supposed to be flighty and not rational,
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and what does that fear reflect?
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The fears reflect a feminism of people like Michelle Perot
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and of women putting forward claims for the right to vote
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and for other things as well.
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Secondly, crowds were supposed to be able to be manipulated
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by people on a big white horse, like Boulanger;
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that crowds didn't have minds of their own,
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but the rationality would sort of