The Posters that Warned against the Horrors of a World with Women’s Rights

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By MessyNessy

At first glance, this illustration looks like the depiction of a rather cool Victorian hangout. The image was commissioned in 1908 for a political magazine of the era, Puck, predicting a liberated woman of the future. Fashionably-dressed women are shown smoking cigars and ignoring children, drinking, gambling using stock tickers and generally hanging out like barflies. The title underneath reads: Why not go the limit? For the benefit of those ladies who ask for the right to smoke in public.



Between the 1890s and early 1900s, thousands of illustrations like this were produced and distributed around the United States and England, on postcards, in magazines and on public billboards. The message was that women’s rights were dangerous and letting women think for themselves could only end in a nightmarish society.

I went digging for more of these illustrations on the net and found a plethora of examples. Many of them are so detailed and well-drawn, you can imagine the kind of influence they must have had on young impressionable minds …





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http://www.messynessychic.com/2014/12/09/the-posters-that-warned-against-the-horrors-of-a-world-with-womens-rights/

Some pretty barbaric stuff in our past.

[CTyankee]

1. Misogynistic fear of women at work here...

[seabeyond]

2. That is great. Thanks for this OP. I will have to check out the link later. But, wow. Nt

[mercuryblues]

3. they were

probably funded by Phylis Schlafly.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

4. The MRA (and GamerGate) movements have been using similarly themed cartoons

I won't link them here, but they sure do rely on AEI's Christina Hoff Sommers "Factual Feminist" for a lot of their woman-hating themes.

[ismnotwasm]

6. Christina Hoff Summers?

I thought she finally went away.

That MRAs picked up on her bullshit is in no way surprising, not even a little bit

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

8. Oh, not at all.

She even chimed in on Anita Sarkeesian's Tropes Vs. Women series with a single video called "Are Video Games Sexist?" where she's "studied the issue" for several weeks and "talked to several gamers" and came to the conclusion that, of course, video games are not sexist.

Which wasn't what Anita Sarkeesian was saying in the first place.

Sommers has been on CNN in the last few months, too. And GamerGaters have taken to her in a...disturbing way...:

http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2014/11/29/the-five-creepiest-gamergate-fan-art-tributes-to-christina-hoff-sommers-aka-based-mom-with-bonus-annoying-gif/ (Warning: really bad photoshops and an animated gif that'll make you want to throw pies at her in the link)

[ismnotwasm]

9. Oh gross

[Lunacee_2013]

5. So strange how those types of guys always think

Women are weak, yet there two are, beating the hell out of a cop.

Now the first pic just looks like fun, but why the hell are those children at a bar? Shouldn't daddy be watching them and making dinner?

[ismnotwasm]

7. Another significant mark on the timeline

Great post, thank you!