Women on money

[billyg]

I vote for Billie Holiday or Maybelle Carter!

[HHP]

Originally Posted by billyg

I vote for Billie Holiday or Maybelle Carter!

I'm for Maybelle. Put an engraving of an L-5 on the back of the bill and record the opening notes of 'Wildwood Flower" on the magnetic security strip.

[seannx]

How about an image of an eagle family (that gets in male and female), and a big hologram of a waving, red, white, and blue US flag? I don't think that flag would get burned, either.

Too bad we don't have any female presidents to choose from.

[KevWind]

Originally Posted by HHP

Maybe a new 2 cent coin.

Ha that is funny, but of course with the cost of things today wouldn't that be a 2 dollar bill ?

[ewalling]

Originally Posted by billyg

I vote for Billie Holiday or Maybelle Carter!

Beyonce!

[Smitty70]

Originally Posted by ewalling

Plus, I would guess, hardly anyone knows who the heck he is apart from the fact that he was a president at some point. I can imagine what reaction Jay Leno would have got if, on his 'jaywalking,' he had asked passers-by who Andrew Jackson was!

I saw Jesse Watters stopping young women on the street and showing them a photo of Hillary Clinton, and was shocked at the number of them that didn't know who she is. Who the heck even pays any attention to who's on a bill anyway.
My vote, Lizzie Borden. A genuine survivor.

[NormH3]

I thought this was a thread about Suze Orman.

[yammieplaya]

I am for Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

[Herb Hunter]

Originally Posted by Fatstrat

... I don't mind if it is with a suitable woman. But I do mind the premise that it needs to happen because women have been discriminated against. There have been women on money before.
So that negates the whole thing. If you can't be honest in your cause, don't expect me to support your cause.

It is my understanding that a real woman has never been depicted on paper money and to that extent, they have sustained discrimination.

[buddyhu]

Originally Posted by Fatstrat

But I do mind the premise that it needs to happen because women have been discriminated against. There have been women on money before. So that negates the whole thing. If you can't be honest in your cause, don't expect me to support your cause.

Really?

[Herb Hunter]

Originally Posted by Mooh

Monica Lewinsky?

Should I infer from your humor that you deem the issue a frivolous one? I really don't know what to make of it.

[El Diablo]

It would depend entirely on who was to be chosen.

Selecting a woman because no woman has been on American paper currency is pretty ridiculous.

The Susan B. Anthony dollar was a flop. The Sacagawea dollar was a flop.

Maybe we should just take a hint from those and worry about things that actually matter.

[NormH3]

Originally Posted by El Diablo

It would depend entirely on who was to be chosen.

Selecting a woman because no woman has been on American paper currency is pretty ridiculous.

The Susan B. Anthony dollar was a flop. The Sacagawea dollar was a flop.

Maybe we should just take a hint from those and worry about things that actually matter.

I'm pretty sure they were a flop because they were coins. I also think people with vision issues had problems with them. I don't even carry coins with me. All of them get tossed into coffee cans for future conversion to something else.

[ewalling]

Originally Posted by El Diablo

It would depend entirely on who was to be chosen.

Selecting a woman because no woman has been on American paper currency is pretty ridiculous.

Is it? Why? Wouldn't having the face of an accomplished woman publicly recognize that women achieve great things just as men do? Only having men smacks of a lop-sided patriarchal society.

[Herb Hunter]

I like the idea of replacing Jackson with a female scientist as men have successfully claimed credit for important contributions women have made.