SUFFRAGE FUNNIES
Amanda at Pandagon links to this comparison of David Brooks’ latest column with anti-feminist literature from 1968, demonstrating a remarkable degree of correspondence.
Yes yes, very amusing and so on. The point is, this reminded me of these old editorial cartoons lampooning the suffragettes, which I will now display for your viewing pleasure. These were collected for Syncopated Volume 2, a very fine comics journal indeed.
A good editorial cartoon tells us something about the target; a bad editorial cartoon tells us something about the cartoonist, which in these cases seems to be a deep-seated fear of emasculation. So join me, internet friends, at we journey back to a magical time of non-stop dicks and pricks, when men were men, women were women, and men were terrified of women. (Click for larger images, natch.)
Maurice Ketten, 1913
Maurice Ketten, 1913
Rodney Thompson, 1913
C.W. Kahney, 1914; Donald McKee, 1914
Donald McKee, 1913; A.B. Walker, 1914; J.R. Shauer, 1913