Suffragette’s ‘advice to young ladies’ from 1918 tells women to ‘avoid’ marriage as ‘most men are lazy and need taming’
A SUFFRAGETTE pamphlet from 1918 has gone viral online, with social media users claiming its “wise words” are “just as relevant today”.
The 101-year-old pamphlet, titled: “Advice on marriage to young ladies” shares sage advice for women considering marriage – and the internet thinks it’s hilarious.
“Do not marry at all,” reads the first piece of advice.
“2. But if you must, avoid the beauty men, flirts, and the bounders, tailor’s dummies, and the football enthusiasts.
“3. Look for a strong, tame man, a fire-lighter, coal-getter, window cleaner and yard swiller.
“4. Don’t except too much, most men are lazy, selfish, thoughtless, lying, drunken, clumsy, heavy-footed, rough, unmanly brutes and need taming.”
The eight-point list, on display at the Pontypridd Museum in Wales, continued to claim that “all bachelors are, and many are worse still”.
“6. If you want him to be happy, feed the brute,” it reads.
“7. The same remark applies to dogs.
“8. You will be wiser not to chance it, it isn’t worth the risk.”
Signed off by a “suffragette wife”, the pamphlet (which has resurfaced on Bored Panda this week) is being praised on social media, with several users claiming her words are “just as relevant today”.
One wrote: “In other words, don’t get married, just get a dog” while another said: “Wish I’d seen this before I got married and divorced”.
Another woman pointed out: “Just when you think a lot has changed in the last 100 years someone produces proof that nothing has.”
The pamphlet was published in 1918 – the same year a bill was passed in parliament allowing some women the right to vote.
The Representation of the People Act allowed women over the age of 30 – who met certain property criteria – to vote.
This only equated to around two thirds of the total population of women.
A decade on, in 1928, the Equal Franchise Act finally allowed all women aged 21 and over – regardless of whether they owned property – the right to vote.
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