Suffragette/Immigrant Grudge Sex

yevkassem72

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I have read enough US history to understand that immigrants were often hostile to the Woman's Suffrage movement because most suffragettes were also pro-Temperance (as in favoring a ban of alcohol). These seems to be especially true of Irish, Italian, and German immigrants. Now, imagine a quarrel between a hard-drinking, hard-working German steelworker in Pittsburgh and a young (say 20?) suffragette who belonged to the upper class (and thus fit the stereotypes in which the immigrants would have believed, anyway- that suffragettes were all tea-sipping, sanctimonious, blue-blood women of Protestant, Anglo-Saxon origins and lacked the common touch). Make it worse by having her be a Republican and him a Democrat, of course.

They get in a long and heated argument, which leads to angry, wild, rough sex. And then they start to really develop feelings for each other, but can't get past their differences. Make it more a story that each remembers and retells later, but no long-lasting romance. Kind of a casualty of social divisions.
 
It's been done already - sort of... "Guys and Dolls."
 
cloudy said:
It's been done already - sort of... "Guys and Dolls."

Don't think I've seen the film. Is that what it is about. I heard something about the Salvation Army, which I understand to be a charity with religious origins.
 
yevkassem72 said:
Don't think I've seen the film. Is that what it is about. I heard something about the Salvation Army, which I understand to be a charity with religious origins.

The play is better, but the film is still great.

A hard-drinking, hard-playing gambler falls for a young, naive salvation army worker. :)
 
cloudy said:
The play is better, but the film is still great.

A hard-drinking, hard-playing gambler falls for a young, naive salvation army worker. :)

Ah, polar opposites attracting. ;)
 
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