Mothers Condensed News Cartoons

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10. But this was very specifically done by Congress.

Even more specifically, by an all-white, all-male Congress in 1914. It's not the commoditization of the holiday, it's the removal of its peace message, including changing the day and month of the holiday, to make it about sentimentality and divorce it from any antiwar message. Consider the time period: one of the most popular songs of the day, first published in 1911, was "I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad." Literally, a song about men wanting to marry their mothers. During the rise of the Suffragettes, menfolk worked hard to romanticize motherhood, promote motherhood, and brainwash women that being on a pedestal with babies underneath them is so much better than voting.