On this day, 15 March 1908, the Rochester Democrat And Chronicle newspaper in New York denounced female anarchists, with this headline: “Women anarchists have become the terror of world’s police”. The article stated that “the guardians of the world nearly always find a woman implicated when a ruler is stricken down”, then contradictorily claimed that “emotional women lose sense of fear”.
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