The cartoonists who lampooned the suffragettes only had two jokes. Either they drew a female head in some cruel device which trapped her tongue — if only! — or women were depicted at rallies, while back home husbands burnt supper and babies wept. SponsoredLoose-tongued, unnatural women, too old to please the male eye, carousing, plotting. Even today, women-only gatherings are treated as suspicious and self-indulgent.

Source: The Times April 16, 2022 04:48 UTC