i agree with you that rioting shouldn't be respected or condoned. 

I find it sad that many conservatives like yourself are proud of the men and women overseas "fighting for our freedom" (which I agree with and am not condemning, as I am a Navy veteran) but then thumb your nose at people protesting to keep their domestic freedoms here in the US. 

Why is the latter something to denigrate? Is it because you don't value women's rights or women as deserving of the freedoms they've fought to have?

It wasn't the military who gave women the right to vote. It was non-military women willing to take to the streets. The kind you dismiss.