The Badass Story of the First Female U.S. Presidential Candidate

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[@ivandinsmore6217]

When I first saw the title, I assumed the video would be about Hilary Clinton or Kamala Harris.

[@mollybeee]

Fun fact about my family, my great aunt Gertrude Sampson was the first female licensed pharmacist in Maine, also from Skowhegan.

[@TheKrispyfort]

Go Auntie Trudes 🏆 (Aussie-English is use. Yes, it's a statement of approval, impression, and celebration)

[@williesnyder2899]

Look up Coya Knudsen, the first U.S. Congresswoman from Minnesota. Her own husband was quoted on the front page of a major statewide newspaper, “Coya, come home!” Under pressure thus, a bright, capable and valuable politician left her ELECTED position… This journey toward true equality is long, convoluted and full of obstacles and detours!!

[@benalexander9669]

"They must be the companions of me from choice, never from necessity." That's hot and I want a time machine to chat her up.

[@Kaltagstar96]

The fact that this absolute badass isn't more widely known is an absolute tragedy; you could legit make a movie about her life. Also, James Blood seemed pretty badass in his own right, I get that 'being supportive of your wife and wanting equal rights for everyone, regardless of sex or race' seems like the absolute bare minimum, but at the time it was probably pretty radical thinking.

[@cptmorrigan1995]

Completely agree! She was so awesome!

[@callysto11]

She sounds like a legend 👏🫶

[@pinkace]

It was her colleagues that silenced her; 17:27

[@haleyd2951]

Because the men who write the history books couldn't give a fudge about strong women.

[@KraftyKreator]

Wow! What a badass woman. And we share the same first name! Love it! I love that she was advocating for different sexualities, talk about progressive! 100 years before America decriminalised being gay.

[@cptmorrigan1995]

2:38 she probably kept her surname so she would have the same last name as her children

[@tremorsfan]

At least she lived long enough to see women get the right to vote in both the United States and United Kingdom.

[@laurap6534]

This country would have been way better if people would have accepted Woodhull . She's been a hero of mine since i was 14 and heard about her.

[@SafetySpooon]

Or even Margaret Chase Smith.

[@cptmorrigan1995]

I just learned about her the other day! Listening to her speech about free love it’s so good! She was so ahead of her time! I admire her so much

[@DarkBiCin]

I wonder if your Patrons watch Mr.Beat. He did a compilation of all his presidential election videos and she was mentioned in the video and im sure lots of peoples curiosity was peaked. Either way great story and excited for the video!

[@vancakes4500]

I do I do! 😁 I too recommend Mr Beat. He's a (former?) school history teacher and goes really in depth on American history topics. I've learned a lot more facts about the US presidents from him than anywhere else.

[@infin1ty850]

It's usually hard to see how attractive someone was from these super old photos, but Mrs Woodhull was an absolute fox.

[@santiagoaguirre3862]

Some of the early suffragettes were not only excessively prudish but were also not above making racist remarks when they were angered that "non-white men" were able to vote before "white" women.

[@deadman746]

Not just early. See Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

[@laurap6534]

Yes, there were all kinds of women who wanted to be treated as adults. Here's a secret some women are a**holes just like some men .

[@Talisguy]

Woodhull, as explained in the video,, ran on the exact opposite of both of those things, so this is basically a tangentially related fun fact.

[@kuno3336]

Suffragettes ran a spectrum, from racist to not. Some, yes, convinced men that the woman's vote was needed lest they be outvoted by African-Americans. Others advocated for civil rights, and had themselves been abolitionists. Some of them were asian, fought for the right of women to vote, and were immediately cheated out of it by the Chinese Exclusion Act. It's wild stuff

[@SafetySpooon]

Yup, people are human beings, none of us is perfect.

[@MaesterTori]

Do Shirley Chisholm next!! ❤

[@BognaZone]

Yes, she was wonderful!!!

[@DrgnLdyLizzie2001]

She was born too early, unfortunately. I would vote for her.

[@Jen39x]

Always wondered where the “free love” idea of the 1800’s came from. When one thinks about it that it makes a lot of sense as part of the idea that women shouldn’t have to um “preform” for her husband any time he wanted. Extremely interesting all the way around including the extra info at end.

[@HikuroMishiro]

It's worth noting though that both men and women were expected to perform their 'marriage duties', and that a man that wouldn't or couldn't perform was one of the few reasons a woman could divorce her husband. And despite modern popular belief, legally speaking the husband couldn't force her to 'perform'. Unfortunately it may not have been taken as seriously as today if he did so, and as was pointed out it was more acceptable for men to have mistresses than women to have misters. Fortunately while not praised enough in her lifetime, Victoria was able to contribute significantly to a more equal society.

[@laurap6534]

It was a long, hard fight for women it wasn't until 1993 that marital rape was made a crime nationwide.

[@alexarobinson2850]

Fascinating. My favorite of your videos yet.

[@Victoria-dh9vb]

Man. Watching this 4 days later really hits different

[@overstuffedghosty]

FR

[@keithhargraves7497]

I rather like colonel Blood. I looked him up hes the commander of the union's 6th Missouri volunteer infantry core during the civil war an was a close friend of president grant

[@Michael500ca]

Dear United States of America, Vote and vote well. Please do not go down in flames like your enemies want you to. I feel like I said something similar in 2016. Love from Canada.

[@MystRunner916]

I will try.....but where I live the electoral is against me.....I want it gone so bad so my vote matters.

[@84marcow]

Worry about your own Country’s problems. The Liberals up there have taken you down a bit.

[@lyndsaybrown8471]

😢

[@RogueSanta]

We dodged a bullet in 2016 and again in 2024

[@Yupppi]

What a brave and confident person. Imagine being likened to satan when saying you should be judged equally. And seems like nothing has changed in terms of being mocked by someone, exposing their hypocrisy and some others getting so defensive that they punish you for the truth. Consider that people have always been calling America something the sort of land of the free, praising the freedom. Yet still seems like one of the more stuck up conservative places. I'd vote for a president like this.

[@iambeezyfbaby]

Adding lemongrass to the herb list for next year!

[@RealSaintB]

I haven't been this early since Simon had hair

[@BognaZone]

Lol!!!

[@syddlinden8966]

The fact we didn't learn about any of these women in school is a testament to how deeply systemic sexism goes in the usa.

[@richardkranium2944]

She would have won had she campaigned on women not having rights. Then do exactly what she wanted. I wonder if she had a name like Andy, if people would ever know she was of woman kind.

[@shmackydoodRon]

Imagine how much it would expand democracy if we got rid of the electoral college. That would rule.

[@tammystockley-loughlin7680]

But then we could have nice things...there are too many that vote against the interests of that. Positive vibes from New Hampshire, remember to be kind to each other and yourself during these trying times.

[@GrievousReborn]

It's been awhile since I watched a today I found out video this one piqued my interest

[@cardiffwalker]

I had to turn the speed volume down to .8 and re-listen to this in order to take it on - other than that - really interesting!

[@kingspilly4381]

1:29 Didn't you make a video talking about how common it is just a few days ago on the Into the Shadows channel?

[@michaelpipkin9942]

Why couldn't I have done a book report on her in the Fifth Grade or something. This sounds awesome.

[@michaelpipkin9942]

20:18 That guy has the " My new girlfriend is a freak!" face.

[@qienna6677]

Did Simon record so many videos, before parting ways or has he returned?

[@theswiv]

Wow, she was awesome & Blood. Badass name and badass early feminist.

[@rayhayes5754]

Jeanette Rankin of Montana was the first woman to serve in both the House and Senate, not Chase Smith.

[@MikeP2055]

Shout-out for the proper captions. Thank you.

[@katherinecollins4685]

Very interesting

[@Talisguy]

I'm not surprised by the comments, but I'm still disappointed.

[@Kaltagstar96]

I have my expectations for KZbin comments pretty fucking low and some of the comments here have somehow managed to sink below a bar that was on the floor!

[@leilatimeful]

I wasn’t sure what you were talking about until I scrolled to the bottom of the comments. Then I understood. 😮‍💨

[@DaveLister2024]

@@leilatimeful the bottom of the comments is always the toilet of the comment sections, tbf

[@MichaelWoodrum]

So this fits my view well. Politicians have always been con... Men?

[@cmrsnowflake]

Awesome. Greeat choice quoting at length from primary sources!!

[@LaniTayvl]

Now this was a woman I believe could have actually done the job of President justice. Current women could learn a LOT from her.

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thank you.

[@maggiemonroe7299]

Three years of education and still a better candidate than Trump!

[@A.Z.S.GXZ777]

I wish she HAD gotten elected, she sounds awesome.

[@pinkace]

6:57 holy crap that would've worked!!!

[@christygaiser]

And now I have a new favorite historical figure

[@andrayellowpenguin]

Too bad she's not better known. A woman ahead of her time!

[@vulcanfeline]

Woodhull 2024

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

I read somewhere there was supposed to be a movie based on her life, starring Brie Larson as Victoria Woodhull.

[@theawesomeman9821]

I thought Hilary Clinton was the first women to run for president of America

[@BognaZone]

Nope.

[@christiansebastianlauritse2404]

​​@@BognaZone @theawesomeman9821 She was the first nominee of a major party.

[@J.A.Smith2397]

All fantastic women I wouldn't ming hearing a bit more of, HOW HAVE WE NEVER HEARD ABOUT ANY OF EM???

[@lyndsaybrown8471]

Because they aren't men

[@patricksteffan9015]

Well, most historians are male.

[@SharonPadget]

You didn’t mention the fact that her first husband left a wife and children to marry her. She earned the nickname Mrs Satan because she was considered a home wrecker.

[@Crioten]

Go go starfishes

[@sensen9124]

❤❤❤

[@k.stacey7389]

Women got their rights but never did get 100% of the responsibilities. It took another 50 years or so for men not to be automatically held responsible for their wife’s debts regardless of if they were from before or during the marriage, and there have still been no women who got a trip to a foreign country to be cannon fodder as their high school graduation present from Uncle Sam.

[@giantred]

This video would make Peter furious!

[@aerotube7291]

This isnt billary is it

[@BognaZone]

No.

[@thebrownwolf]

Not very nice to call Hillary a witch...

[@jacobc874]

Punk rock

[@bensoncheung2801]

Aye

[@salty-walt]

Dude, what's up with the T-Shirt? I saw you in some similar middle aged knit in another video. Don't you know we only find you credible in that old worn indigo/calico shirt? (the sweater was always too skinny , better left behind. . . a good idea though

[@RogueSanta]

Why do they need to vote

[@TourettesMajestic]

She was years and years ahead of her time

[@VooshSpokesman]

Love from a AtunSheiFilms and Vaush fan!

[@TommyTheCat83]

Too bad modern women presidential candidates wer not as competent. It would be cool to have a woman in the white house, to bad the modern democrats only present their scraps as offerings.

[@Opus313]

The USA has the opportunity to elect the first female POTUS... Vote Blue 💙 folks!

[@njb7209]

She put blacks in jail for smoking weed.😮

[@natesmith2408]

Not a fucking chance. The Marxist? The woman who fucked her way into every position she ever held? The woman who HID evidence exonerating people on death row? You're in a death cult.

[@qazhr]

So because Harris a woman please ignore all her bad ideas and non answers in interviews

[@Talisguy]

​​@@njb7209 Trump put out ads calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty for the Central Park Five and still stuck to his guns on that front after they were proven innocent. Neither candidate has a great track record on that front, Trump's is somehow worse.

[@mrnekomaneki01]

Just like she was elected as the candidate in the Democrat primary? Oh wait..

[@BatchelderPatrick]

"...based on their gender..." Not sex!!

[@Willy_Tepes]

lmao

[@ares106]

Too bad she was a charlatan.

[@mxrichardsonsneighbourhood5402]

So no mention of Shirley Chism, then. Not even one sentence at the very end. The first Black woman to run for POTUS under a major party.

[@BognaZone]

Chisholm.

[@AlanThomas-h8f]

Simon. Do a programme on Constance Hunslett who in 1897 was the first woman to try and not have the last word in an argument or Fanny Arbuthnot 1868, the first woman to pioneer the notion of NOT asking her husband (when he was stepping out to the pub) when he would be coming home?

[@Newton-Reuther]

What about the first woman to not cheat on her husband???

[@Nick-b7b9s]

I thought this would be about Hillary...butthen I noticed the W 😂😂😂😂

[@Heartwing37]

Or the first woman to make a decision on take-out?

[@dyslexicboogaloo]

Please include Eileen Brindamore, who in 1901, put on a dress that did make her look fat and just rolled with it.

[@raymondmartin6737]

Being 80, spending time in Rangely, ME in the 50's know Senator Smith's home of Skowhegan, ME on the Kennebec River back then, seeing the logs on the that river too. McCarthy missed his calling, not being with the Republican party too. We took a class trip in 1952, when in school to see Ike campaigning through Hartsdale, NY, where I grew up in the 1950's and I remember seeing him in a convertible limo and the I like Ike buttons, which you don't see today, like JFK and McGovern in 1972. I had a book back in 1973, entitled, Impeach Nixon Now, during Watergate. I saw RFK campaigning in 1966, at NYU, in the Bronx, for the US Senate, and Senator Goldwater, K7UGA, at the 50 year convention of the American Radio Relay League, in NYC, when I was 20, and a new Amateur Radio Operator, now for over 62 years. I later saw Senator Goldwater's amateur radio antennas by his property near Phoenix, AZ, when I lived out there in 1976, and the Goldwater Department store there too. While in college, 1964-68, I was in USAF ROTC, and active 1969-1974, today being a 100% Disabled American Veteran, of the Vietnam Era War over 50 years ago, born in 1944, London, UK, during WWII, to NYC, in 1949, on the Queen Mary. 😅

[@iroekyjHD]

Oh cool, I literally don't care at all.

[@augustuswayne9676]

Remember if you are an American to go vote November 5th . Trump / Vance 2024 🇺🇸.

[@wk1247]

​@@lehammsamm Going to have a harsh reality coming in 3 days.

[@Hillbilly001]

Which other felon are you going to want to be president? He's going to jail. Get over it.

[@keithhargraves7497]

Noo.!

[@MsBELLE7]

Ewww no.

[@Hillbilly001]

@@augustuswayne9676 Vote for the felon? Not gonna happen.

[@shaerick6867]

shes not badass, shes, dare i say it, cringe

[@lisamartinbradley1039]

Why cringe?

[@Talisguy]

She was far more of a badass then you or I will ever be.

[@Kaltagstar96]

@@lisamartinbradley1039 Because she's a woman. (that's apparently all that you need to be for an incel to call you cringe)

[@josesalazar3038]

This comment is cringe as fuck, giving deep ick

[@maxdeusphallus8974]

The world has gotten so much better with womens' vote, right? Right?

[@Nick-b7b9s]

I thought this was going to be about Hillary...but then I noticed the W 😂😂😂😂

[@wizzle-]

Ooh, she's an activist. Lets celebrate. Sigh.

[@Talisguy]

Her activism was, among other things, for the right for women to not have sex if they don't want to. That's where the bar was. Any meaningful effort towards raising that bar is worthy of celebration.

[@dnttcfvj1247]

She sounds like kamala harris nowadays but not for women for illegal immigrants instead

[@tonyahinrichs8828]

I'd rather my taxes go to poor immigrants instead of corporate bailouts or millionaires tax breaks

[@fooliemane6156]

​@@tonyahinrichs8828I'd rather my taxes go to poor Americans 🤷🏿

[@edankriss141]

It was all downhill from here boys.

[@MichaelWoodrum]

So this fits my view well. Politicians have always been con... Men?