Sufferin' Suffrage

This is why The View fascinates me. You give four women a platform to spout their opinions, and those four women are often times ill informed. Every now and then I catch clips of the show on abcnews.com and end up playing the mental game of "now how would a reasonable and informed person respond to that point." Lucky for the four regular co-hosts, sometimes Barbara Walters shows up and is able to educate them or steer them clear of exhibitions of ignorance. Then sometimes she's not there and you end up with the ladies discussing and defining suffrage as "when black people had to...die for being black." It looks like the ladies confused suffrage with suffering, for as co-host Joy Behar says "it has suffering in it." So the moral of the story is: Don't let your children go through an election cycle without knowing what suffrage is---it's bad for the world and daytime television.