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mahatmakanejeeves

(60,768 posts)
Sat Jul 31, 2021, 06:31 AM Jul 2021

Conservative cartoons from 1913 depicting angry suffragettes as brutal anarchafeminists ...

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Ruthless Rhymes for Martial Militants.
These conservative cartoons from ~1913 depicting angry suffragettes as brutal anarchafeminists were somehow actually supposed to make the subjects look bad, instead of amazingly badass.
https://fuckyeahanarchistposters.tumblr.com/post/658157680

Ruthless Rhymes for Martial Militants.
These conservative cartoons from ~1913 depicting angry suffragettes as brutal anarchafeminists were somehow actually supposed to make the subjects look bad, instead of amazingly badass.
https://fuckyeahanarchistposters.tumblr.com/post/658157680404398080/kropotkindersurprise-ruthless-rhymes-for-martial


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Conservative cartoons from 1913 depicting angry suffragettes as brutal anarchafeminists ... (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2021 OP
Love these! Grokenstein Jul 2021 #1
Thank you for this amazing find. The sheer brutality, hatred, ugliness and niyad Jul 2021 #2
So...same old, same old not fooled Jul 2021 #3

niyad

(119,670 posts)
2. Thank you for this amazing find. The sheer brutality, hatred, ugliness and
Sat Jul 31, 2021, 08:05 AM
Jul 2021

Vituperation directed against the suffragists was beyond horrifying. The threats, the assaults (including by police), the jailings, the forced feedings, . . . Most people have no clue about the battle it took to finally achieve suffrage.

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