It’s difficult to imagine that only a short while ago women were seen as an inferior population to the domineering men of the time. Through bravery and determination, however, women world-wide gathered en masse, known as “Suffragettes,” to show once and for all why their voice mattered, changing the course of history while doing so.
The “Suffragette” movement gained popularity in the late 19th/early 20th century as British women from upper and middle-class backgrounds were becoming increasingly frustrated by their social and economic situation, and were ready to have their opinion heard and respected by the public.
But in response to the initial upheaval from women, the male-dominated print media conceived a rebuttal by creating illustrative posters meant to spread fear of women among the male population.
The following series of images are a collection of these vintage posters showcasing the hysteric propaganda spread at the time of the Suffragette movement. Some of them are downright offensive, while most are just laughable. Either way, it is fascinating and refreshing to see how far we’ve come since then.
Enjoy!
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Make a woman your equal she will become your superior.
……Cicero
Woman, what does she want?
…..Freud
Treat a lady like a tramp, and a tramp like a lady.
……..Sinatra
Bill,
How about treat a woman like a person?
We wouldn’t want to take a women from her pedistol and lower her to a common person.
Women ars more sacred than God’s.
Let me guess, Al…you’re single and angry? lol
*pedestal
*gods
I think some people still carry the same antiquated beliefs that these posters (propaganda) express.
nobody wants to admit that :))) even some women are not aware…
Women are whatever the masculine defines them as right now, so you can blame yourself if you think that’s true. The masculine and the feminine are both misunderstood and poorly appreciated in an era that thinks gender is primarily about sex and other anatomical attributes.
It’s my experience that only the most incredibly insecure men, have a problem with seeing women as equals. Lucky for us all (men and women), your kind are nearly extinct. 🙂
Boom! Love it
Great to hear the views of three old, dead men.
A good collection illustrating man’s fear of losing control of his world. Glad it feels like xx xy balance is close at hand.
Tell your daughters!!
Oh, boy! 🙂 I laughed at many of them. What can we do, really? We’ve all come a long way and… here we are. We’ll definitively be somewhere even better in a 100 more. Let us bring light into the world instead of making the other feel miserable. That’s not that hard, isn’t it?
I feel that the biggest offense against our family units, and especially the raising of our children, is that women working outside the home isn’t an option, but is most often mandatory. That is if your highest priority is the raising of your own children, and having a happy husband, wife, and home. And heaven help a women who doesn’t have “work” skills if the marriage no longer exists. Guess that means I’m not a feminist, though of course I believe in equal pay for an equal job done.
It’s really not an issue at the individual level, it’s an issue of societal structure and cohesion. If your sensibilities have led you to a more socially traditional hearth role of mother, wife, homemaker, it is wonderful and important that you honor that and find a mate who does the same. But the hearth only represents one dimension of the feminine, and those of us driven to manifest other dimensions of the power we must weild in order to do our part to maintain a healthy species should be supported in living with integrity. The fabric of society is not rent by women choosing other than traditional roles, or vice versus. We have to respect the full spectrum of feminine skills and sensibities.
And among the teachings of His Holiness Bahá’u’lláh is the equality of women and men. The world of humanity has two wings — one is women and the other men. Not until both wings are equally developed can the bird fly. Should one wing remain weak, flight is impossible. Not until the world of women becomes equal to the world of men in the acquisition of virtues and perfections, can success and prosperity be attained as they ought to be.” (Abdu’l-Baha, Baha’i World Faith, p. 288
Nice analogy, Doug.
Men don’t have a problem seeing women as equals, but the fact is that women are not hard-wired for creation or building! Women are different from men in that respect. Men are about expansionism, women are about sustaining or going the safer route.
Not true– I know female engineers who probably know much more than you !
We only create the one thing worth creating–life.
Just no. One of my friends is a builder, she is female. There are women FIGHTING for this country as well as men. I wouldn’t say those women are “taking the safer route” would you. Also, imagine you were born a women in that time, darning socks, having no life other then your husband or family. Everyone should be allowed to a right in choosing their path in life and not been held back because of their gender. Educate your self.
You make generalizations that make me think you know girls, not women.
That is a massively incorrect generalisation. Until men like yourself realise that men and women aren’t so different and are equally a part of the human race, sexism will never die out. Women are just as good at creating and building as their male counterparts. Instead of making ludicrous broad statements of pointless missgoyny, try providing facts instead of your misinformed bigotry.
Wow. With comments like this, it’s pretty clear we still have a long way to go indeed.
FALSE.
Says the man who’s picture is Brad Pitt from Fight Club. The feminine exists to ensure the species is sustained. You masculine-oriented folks have the gift of blessed ignorance, which is useful for quick execution and disastrous for long-term sustainability. Both feminine and masculine sensibilities are critical to human success, but the feminine is less instantly gratifying and so easily dismissed when the masculine is “creating” at full tilt. Innovation comes with a price, and its always better to spend intentionally – but budgeting is a feminine thing.
Well Said Lara
It is correct to say male energy is about expansion and female energy is about sustaining maybe moreso nurturing. Our souls consist of both male and female energy, which is why some men make amazing stay at home dads and some women become leaders in many innovative fields. Even if a woman is born with female body parts, her spirit might have more yang male energy. The same can be true for a man born with more yin female energy. This is why it is important to not categorize people by sex. It’s about their personal yin/yang energy. In a worldly comparison, for centuries the world leaders flow of energy has been male yang dominant which is why the expansion of capitalism is ruling. Both men & women are correcting this by now adopting business & life practices that respond to the needs of others by nurturing the individual. This is female energy balancing out the over intellectualism with heart driven action. I am constantly amazed by the men I come across who have a lovely amount of yin energy. Now, we just need to learn to embrace the yang dominant female instead of shame her.
That is beautiful!
Women are not ‘hard wired for creation’?????? Where do babies come from my dear fellow!
Ever heard of giving birth? How’s that for expansionism?
What’s wrong if a woman takes safer way. Just remember if she hadn’t your arms and legs would be fractured when you were a child. Your nose would be broken. It’s only because a woman (your mother) cared and looked after your safety? You had a safe and enjoyable childhood rather than on hospital beds.and also its time men stop kissing women and underestimating their powers. Above all stop generalising.
You daughter’s daughters adore you & we sing in grateful chorus, “Well done!”
Well done!
It’s sad to see misogyny and oppression of women are still evident in our society as shown by the comments in this thread, but in the end you can oppress people forever and believe me women are rising up. To all you who say “oh but women area de differently, it’s nature” you are ignorant and a dying breed, women can do anything and giving the same opportunities just aswell as men. Be it flying planes, fighting for your country, running businesses and homes, women can do it and do it well. To women who are “not a feminist” if you are living in today’s society you certainly are, education, voting, equal pay and the right to choose are all due to the feminist pioneers. Be proud of
in USMC women do hangs instead of pull ups for 2 mins do crunches instead of sit ups and run 1 and a half miles verses 3 miles. and yet get same pay for rank and time in service as men.
The hang may not be fair….but to get the full 100 points they have to do 7 pull ups after the hang. Both male and female Marines do crunches, same amount of time each crunch worth the same, females run 3 miles for a PFT as well.
Ladies can’t do pull ups as easily as men can, less arm strength in most cases. Also having wider hips plays a part in that, more gravitational pull.
On every level This still happens, when you employ a builder, they want to ask the man about the plan, when you manage a team you get men asking for the man in charge, when you have a child its your job, not a shared responsibility, when you walk down the street you get the whistles, and any amount of being referred to as love, dear etc. and even though we work as hard we are likely paid less for the same and less likely to be promote. We are more than fifty percent of the population and yet are still treated like a minority underclass! It’s endemic and a epidemic!
Still a long way to go in my mind
Classic projection. Like when a cheating partner is suspicious of their other half, or when America finally freed the slaves, only to fear them like they were criminals just waiting to strike.
It’s a fear of getting what you think you deserve.. if only womens humility were met with apology instead of fear, imagine how much progress we could achieve!
Ha. Looks like what they were really afraid of was women treating them the way that they treated women. LOL.
right!
exactly my thought 🙂
I think only men with very high testasterone levels have a problem with women having rights,because they want to control and dominate women and be in charge.very high testasterone tends to cause this behavior atleast it did for me.They also think they are superior to women,not to mention most they meet.they are very cocky.
I realized this after i boosted my testasterone levels off the charts,very high.it really changed the way i think.I soon changed into a brute in appears as well as mentally over the course of 2 and a half years. By the end i had became a controlling,sexist,womanizer. A real life mysoginist.even though i finally Had the massive muscles i had always dreamed of. I had become another person.
I had been taking a new kind of underground drug made in lab.it was not a hormone so i was not taking steriods.what the drug did was cause the testicles to produce very large Amounts of testasterone.but the testicles could not handle making such massive amounts.
They would just give out and stop working,but the drug was very sophisticated. It was able to dramatically increase the capacity of the testicles to produce testasterone.this caused the testicles to grow very large in size.i am talking bigger then a bulls its freakish.the testicles being massive had the ability to produce massive amounts of testasterone with no risk of testicular failure.it also caused significant penis growth as well as body hair.
The drug was also capable of inhibiting testasterone coverting into estrogen,including removal of all forms xenoestrogens from the body. As well as removing natural testasterone binders in the blood.which cause testasterone to be unusable.allowing massive quantities of free usable testasterone to rome through the blood.causing massive muscle growth and masculization of the face and body Structure Overtime.
I continue to use the drug.and have completely transformed into a alpha male specimen,a physique greater then Arnold in his prime. I am a graduate student in chemistry.and developed the drug with the aid of my chemistry professor.he also takes the drug and has achieved the same dramatic results. Knowledge of the drug remains between us two.impacts on society from this drug could reverse a century of womans rights i honestly believe.
Haha best comment I’ve read all day.
Come on man! Where can I get this drug?!
Fantasy !!!
Assuming you all ate the other red pill, this discussion might be more moving. Rather than galloping in circles. Did anyone read anything about the human rights movement(s) conspiracy with the Rockeyfellers?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCpjmvaIgNA
I cant help but notice that there is not a drive for equality in truck driver jobs or garbage collection, but when it comes to cushy white collar jobs! The truth is that it now requires 2 incomes to pay a motrgage, Govt gets more taxes, banks get more profit but familys must work harder and children are neglected. Who then are the real winners and loosers?
Its a pity those old signs didn’t have more effect. Look how sick the world has become from the scourge of feminazism since. And kids are growing up totally inculturated with this social poison and perpetuating the abomination. Soon this Earth will be cleansed of feminism forever.
It will be cleansed of anything that requires oxygen, water and food if men keep behaving like they own the earth. Sorry to burst your bubble, but capitolism and industry are to blame for our demise, not feminism.
Long before the invention of our “father in heaven” we worshiped our “mother earth” and humans lived in matriarchal societies for many thousands of years. Since the paradigm shift, we are now reaching a point that our current system of patriotic growth is unsustainable and will eventually collapse.
Now stop being a selfish little boy and share your toys with sally!
lol, after I read this article I knew there’d be a troll or two trying to instigate some verbal warfare. Thanks for the laugh, Gary.
Increíble and in Colombia people think like that. I am a civil engineer and it has been a real struggle.