#Shrill
Image from the Smithsonian
“Find the Group in Favor of Women’s Suffrage,” 1894
Anti-suffrage advocates used many strategies to criticize suffragists, but the most widespread and long-lasting were superficial insults having nothing to do with their political stances. Suffragists were painted as everything from ugly, unlovable, too feminine (or not feminine enough), cold-hearted, promiscuous, and shrill.