7. Allowing Cats to Vote?
When the movement for women to have the right to vote was beginning to gather steam by the 1840s with the Seneca Falls Convention, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, men were beginning to become concerned about what giving these female troublemakers a vote could mean for American democracy.
And because the suffragettes had a knack for creating powerful memorabilia to promote their cause, the anti-suffrage movement created ceramic pieces with caricature depictions of suffragettes, most popularly in the form of cats, inscribed with the words “Votes for Women” or “I Want My Vote.” These pieces suggested that if women do get the vote, then you might as well give the right to vote to cats as well.
