[ SECRET POST #2518 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2518 ⌋

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[insanenoodlyguy]

Emily Davidson wasn't a martyr. Or if she was she didn't make it clear. It looks more like she miscalculated grabbing a horse or putting something on one and got trampled to death by said horse instead on account of doing something stupid (daring and bold certainly, but standing infront of a charging horse is not a smart idea). There appears to be some debate on it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Davison

"The most recent theory is that she intended to throw a "votes for women" sash around the neck of the King's horse to gain publicity for her cause. A sash apparently found at the scene immediately after the collision was recently purchased at auction by author Barbara Gorna, the closest losing bidder being the Jockey Club, and now hangs in the Houses of Parliament. This theory received support from a 2013 examination of the incident, in which forensic experts examined and correlated footage captured by three different newsreel cameras, and determined that Davison was much closer to the start of the bend than had been previously assumed, and so would have had a much clearer view of the oncoming horses than previously thought.[5] It concluded that Davison, who clearly carried in her hand something that could have been the folded Votes for Women sash as she ducked under a barrier and onto the course, did intend to attach it to the king's horse, and that there was no question of her deliberately throwing herself under the horse.

However, in his 2013 book The Suffragette Derby, Tanner examined the provenance of this 'sash', which is in fact a scarf, and found it wanting: its original owner, Richard Pittway Burton, was not Epsom's Clerk of the Course, as claimed, but an East End docker with no racing connection whatsoever. Nor, he argued, could the article in Davison's hand be safely identified as a scarf in the first place: the evidence was skewed to suit. In a letter to the 'Racing Post' Tanner went on to deplore the reiteration of 'several myths' attached to Davison that he had debunked in his book, and expressed deep reservations about the film footage analysis, stressing once more that 'from her position wedged tight against the rail, Davison would need to have been on a 20-foot ladder to have seen over the heads of the people to her right and then the leading bunch of 9 horses to single out the figure of Anmer hidden behind...she was already ducking under the rail as the first horses passed and had missed two-thirds of the field altogether - which for all she knew may have contained Anmer. It was pure chance that she stumbled upon Anmer.'"

However... If it was an intentional suicide, it was poorly thought out. She didn't announce her intentions nor leave any sort of clarification as to why she did it. If she intended death by horse to emphasize the point, it wasn't very apparent. Nor frankly does getting trampled at the horse really make you think "hmmm, these ladies seem to make a good point!" so much as "good lord that bird's balmy"

TL;DR: no suicide note, no speech or indication to anybody beforehand it was intentional suicide, no evidence that makes it clear. you say she martyr'd herself? Prove it.