Feminism is about equal rights for a person, whatever their gender. Oddly, much of the manosphere interprets this as something very different, and thinks that if a woman has the same rights as a man, the man will somehow lose his own rights, his genitals will be removed and he will be made to wear a frilly apron and scrub floors. This isn’t a new phenomenon. The dystopic forced-fem castration fantasy was staple of anti-suffrage propaganda in early 1900s.

From The Society Pages:

“…Those opposed to women’s suffrage also used postcards to get their message out to the public. The Palczewski Postcard Archive at the University of Northern Iowa, sent to us by Katrin, has a number of great examples that illustrate the frames used to present women’s full political participation as threatening.

For instance, a 12-card series produced by Dunston-Weiler Lithographic Company presented suffrage as upending the gender order by masculinizing women and feminizing men. Suffragists, the postcards tell us, cause women to abandon their household duties and become aggressive and unladylike…”

For more postcards, click here.