Postcard, early 1900s, altered by author

A Review of Some Anti-Suffragette Postcards from the Early 1900s

First she gets the vote, then she gets your wife

If you go down the wrong path online, you might find a community that rails against women who seek better treatment in society. This might be new to you, but if you were alive in the early 1900s, you would have seen this kind of sentiment all the time in the form of anti-suffragette propganda.

Postcard, 1909, altered by author

caterpillars and suffragettes have something in common. Clear lifecycles. For, you see, the sweet girl does not start out as women who will do anything for the vote. In fact, young suffragettes look like any other girl. But once they hit 40 and fail to get their man, they become bitter and radicalized. By 50 it’s too late and they are hatchet-carrying members of the suffrage movement. So decide. Do you want a hatchet and the vote, or do you want a husband? You can’t have it all.

Postcard, early 1900s, altered by author

Really the only thing those vote-seeking women understand is violence. Dunking chairs, stocks, cages…