Judge — October 30, 1915 — page 15: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is an anti-suffrage cartoon from *Judge* magazine opposing women's voting rights. The image depicts a nighttime street scene with a ballot box labeled "VOTES FOR WOMEN" surrounded by caricatured figures, some appearing grotesque or menacing. The page text asks "FOR WOMEN?" with the emphatic response "NO!" The cartoon employs visual rhetoric common to anti-suffrage propaganda: depicting voting women as attracting disorder, vice, or social chaos. The darkened, crowded setting and exaggerated character depictions suggest suffrage would introduce undesirable elements into the political process. This reflects the early 20th-century opposition to women's suffrage, which *Judge*—despite its satirical reputation—actively campaigned against before women gained voting rights in 1920.