These 30 Anti-Suffragette Posters Show The ‘Dangers’ Of Women’s Rights
Times are a-changing and nowadays it is easy to take our ability to vote for granted. However, it’s really not that long ago since our grandmothers and great-grandmothers had to go through some serious abuse to win that right. Just a century ago, suffrage was a highly divisive and controversial issue in Western society.
It’s always scary to challenge the status quo and these postcards from the early 20th century are a perfect illustration of that. In them, you can see the frustration of men and women alike, who were afraid of change and thought that granting women the right to vote will somehow ruin the world and the progress that was made. Sadly, these mocking images still look vaguely familiar even in today’s context where feminists (sometimes even referred to as feminazis) are depicted as irrational, neurotic and even abusive. Scroll down below to see the full list of illustrations and don’t forget to vote for the ones you like (erm, hate?) the most.
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The reason these posters, like this one, were made is because this is the way the men acted toward women and were TERRIFIED to have it come back to THEM!
I love how pretty much any comments made by men that is making fun or finding humor in some of these posters (and lets face it, some of these faces look hilarious) are getting downvoted, as if they agree with the poster or something. You know we can disagree with the message wholeheartedly and still find these antiquated drawings hilarious looking.
These were purposefully exaggerated by men to spread the fear that they were losing control of their women.
So they’re fine with women doing these things, but when men do it, the world is over? I guess men in those times were really bad at doing those things.
You were either a mother or a whore. There was no other recognized position.
I don’t get the whole thing about ham and mustard. Does this have to do with men cooking or something? Again, this poster make needs to go back to poster school.
HUH! According to many this is still what awaits women who go “professional”. Despite the fact it takes two people working to make ends meet, don’t encourage a woman to have a profession!
What is especially horrible is that the men, who were repressing women, portrayed themselves as the victims!
Note: this post originally had 60 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
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