1934: Death of Kate Sheppard
July 13, 2021
By AHNZ
Today in history, 13 July, 1934, Kate Sheppard died in her Christchurch home aged 86. By this time she was Katherine Lovell-Smith. Kate is remembered for being the poster woman of the successful campaign to give women the ability to vote in New Zealand central government elections. In actual fact, these women were re-gaining an ability to vote that had been taken away from them.
Women had been voting in general elections anyway but they did so in disguise and illegally so. Earlier still, women had equal voting rights to men because it was not a matter of ‘one man one vote‘ but of being a property owner. That came to an end only in for the 1881 election. Looking back at prior electoral rolls long before Kate Sheppard migrated to our country there are plenty of examples of women with suffrage. Of course, you wont read about that in State history books!
Many women would have to wait. Only females who were British citizens were granted what Kate’s Suffragettes fought for which, for example, did not include our many Chinese New Zealanders. So, on 19 September 1893, it was British women, including Maoris, who re-aquired the ability to vote in New Zealand elections legally. This was an ability they had only been missing out on for the prior 4 elections. So much for liberating women for the “first” time in history or being the first parliament (apart from Wyoming, Utah, Washington, Montana, Colorado, Cook Islands, etc..) to let women vote! All Kate really did was break a 4 election drought.
Maori Super Suffrage
Maori men had the vote for just as long as male Causasian citizens and had one-man-one-vote since 1867 whereas their White male contemporaries had to wait until the election of 1881 to exercise the same. In 1865 Maoris were welcomed into the colony legally with the Native Rights Act. Maori women, at this point, had a short spell of equal voting rights alongside British Causasian women but the curtain came down on them both in December 1879 when voting was made into a male-only affair.
Maoris had not, at this point, resolved to migrate to the Colony of New Zealand as they later would in the 1960s. They had their own central government, the Kotahitanga, complete with parliamentary Members, an Executive, and Premier. Also in 1893, women were allowed to vote in this parliament provided they were of the specified race. The General Assembly of the Colonists, on the other hand, was open to people both White and Brown.
Kate: Social Justice Warrior
Kate Sheppard, as remembered by her face on our ten-dollar note. It is important to remember Shepard as she was: a wealthy woman of one of New Zealand’s ruling cities (Christchurch.)
What to do with all that feminine protective energy? What victims to discover and save once you’ve won the hypergamy race? “Bourgeoisie Bitches” (to use Greer’s term) like Kate try to out-do one another in Social Justice efforts. After you’ve got all the nice clothing and secured a nice house and revenue stream (ie a man) your only remaining thing to do is try to out-do your female peers at Social Justice pursuits.
Sheppard, as you can see in this great colourised photo (image, top,) was one of these wealthy Society Women. It is for her that the Theory of Moral Cultures names this time period Kate Shepherd Victimhood Culture. The following generation’s version of the same (Dominion Victimhood Culture) were the women who bank-rolled the horrors of Sir Truby King and his NZ eugenics programme.
Sheppard’s Christchurch house was purchased by The State in 2020 as part of Labour 6.0’s election campaign; Ref. Stuff
“It is women who keep the doors of society closed,” who traditionally wield all the cards of social capital, child raising, reproduction, and household consumption. Back in the 1890s it was Kate Sheppard who led the way to The State disenfranchising men by also handing women the vote to top it all off…Kate Sheppard (22) and her siblings immigrated with their mother to Christchurch in 1869 directly into the eye of this perfect storm of estrogen.” – 1893: Kate Sheppard
“Well known suffragette Kate Sheppard was elected as its first President. Not ones to be accused of hard working, they immediately take a ‘recess period of twelve years.’” – 1896: The National Council of Women
Likewise, the Satanic Pannic Victimhood Culture of the early 1990s had an affinity for Kate Sheppard. It was in 1991 that the Dignity Culture icon of Queen Elizabeth II was traded out for the image of Kate Lovell-Smith on our ten dollar note.
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