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title: '"A Female Suffrage Fancy" (Puck, 14 July 1880)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/female-suffrage-fancy-puck-1880/
description: 'Eight scenes of a world where women have the vote: women in men''s dress and manners, drinking, voting for handsome candidates.'
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**Content note:** 1880 satire of women voting, built on gender-reversal jokes, shown as published. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[!["A Female Suffrage Fancy", 1880 US cartoon: Eight scenes of a world where women have the vote](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/female-suffrage-fancy-puck-1880.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/female-suffrage-fancy-puck-1880.jpg)

# "A Female Suffrage Fancy" (Puck, 14 July 1880)

Eight scenes of a world where women have the vote: women in men's dress and manners, drinking, voting for handsome candidates, driving ugly men from the polls, and a man minding children. The tell: every scene is a reversal of roles, not a description of what suffragists asked for.

Puck of New York ran this double-page composite on 14 July 1880. Its eight scenes picture a world where women have the vote: women in men's dress and manners, drinking, voting for handsome candidates and driving ugly men from the polls, and a man minding children. The sheet asks readers to imagine suffrage as a swap of roles. That is a straw man, because every scene is a reversal and none describes what suffragists actually asked for.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Straw man](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/straw-man/)

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[← General James B. Weaver, photographed by C. M. Bell (Harper's Weekly, 3 July 1880)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/weaver-harpers-weekly-portrait-1880/) [Where Both Platforms Agree: No Vote, No Use to Either Party (Puck cover, 14 July 1880) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/puck-where-both-platforms-agree-anti-chinese-1880/)

## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques

- [Gazette of the United States, "The Jeffersoniad" no. VIII, 14 August 1800](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gazette-us-jeffersoniad-1800/) (United States · Aug 14, 1800 · Name-calling, Fear appeal, Ad hominem, Straw man)
- [Political caricature. No. 3, The abolition catastrophe. Or the November smash-up](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abolition-catastrophe-1864/) (United States · 1864 · Bandwagon, Name-calling, Straw man). Content note: 1864 Democratic print using a racial slur.
- ["A Squelcher for Woman Suffrage" (Puck cover, 6 June 1894)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/squelcher-for-woman-suffrage-puck-1894/) (United States · Jun 6, 1894 · Straw man)
- ["When women vote: what will happen if the polling place is located in a millinery shop" (Puck, 1909)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/when-women-vote-millinery-shop-puck-1909/) (United States · Apr 28, 1909 · Straw man)
- ["Well, Missy! Heah we is!" (Puck, 1913)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/well-missy-heah-we-is-puck-1913/) (United States · Mar 13, 1913 · Name-calling, Straw man). Content note: 1913 cartoon with racial caricature of Black women and dialect, drawn into the suffrage debate, shown as published.
- ["Making the Polls Attractive to the Anti-Suffragists" (Puck, 20 February 1915)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/making-polls-attractive-to-anti-suffragists-puck-1915/) (United States · Feb 20, 1915 · Straw man)