Women voting? Your children will die.

[eva]

Found this when looking up something inspired by the earlier women's suffrage ad.




Switzerland, 1920 - 51 years before women received the vote on a national level, 70 before they received it in the last canton.

Top: "The mother is pursuing politics!"
Bottom: "Women's franchise and suffrage | NO"

Comments

[setsuled.livejournal.com]

Cat babies are notoriously reckless bassinet drivers, as any decent mother knows.

[zorinlynx.livejournal.com]

Nice bit of cat hating there as well.

Cats are such beautiful creatures. I can't believe that for so long through history they were considered "evil".

[misstia]

and they were worshiped in ancient egypt....

i'm certainly against cat hating (or any animal hating) as a kooky cat lady (with 2 dogs)......

[nyxalinth.livejournal.com]

My first thought was "Yay, kitty!"

It's before his time, but Hitler supposedly hated cats.

Interesting how many of the world's dictators (Julius Caeser, Alexander the great, Napoleon, Hitler...) all hated cats. I expect it's because cats don't give a fuck and it drives that sort up the wall :P

[1geek-queen.livejournal.com]

Cats are such beautiful creatures. I can't believe that for so long through history they were considered "evil".

I don't get it, either.

[indigoviolet.livejournal.com]

Well, they are a tiny bit evil. It's part of their charm. :) I get the impression sometimes that they're daydreaming about how they could take over the world if only they had opposable thumbs

[flameelf.livejournal.com]

Naaaaaaa....they just need to improve their mind control techniques to get the people around them to do what they want!

I know MINE had me brainwashed at a very early age!

Grey :)

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

This is obvious. Spending 13 minutes in the voting booth every four years puts any infant at immediate risk.

[write-light.livejournal.com]

So.... if moms can vote, then the LOLCats will toss baby from the crib? WTF?? Where's the giant dagger in baby's back?

[chibirachy.livejournal.com]

Laser kitty XD OMG get those women back in the home! Or poor little Johnny DIES!

Poor black kitty. I'll take you home :D They say that black cats are harder to adopt out than their more colorful counterparts. But in my area, no one wants to adopt a cat. There have been 2 cat adoptions since I got mine in October.

[gillianinoz.livejournal.com]

So women couldn't vote in Switzerland until 1971? Wtf? I thought you got the date wrong so I looked it up.

1971?? Amazing!

On the other hand women could vote in Australia by 1894, but Indiginous people didn't get the vote until the late 1960's.

[amiga500.livejournal.com]

I guess this is why there was no Good Cat, Carl?

Seriously, my cat girl loves my toddler boy, and it's been that way since she met him. If I didn't worry about him being too rough with her (she won't even hiss at the kid, or avoid too-tight hugs), and she could make quesadillas, I'd totally let her babysit while I got all liberated.

[ms-hissyfit.livejournal.com]

This looks almost like a parody. Maybe the artist was secretly a liberal?

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

So Swiss women got the vote in 1971? Hey, that's only 8 years after Afghanistan and Iran. Very progressive there, Switzerland!

I would have also given this a WTF tag because I can't quite figure it out. When she came back from voting, a cat jumped in the window, it startled her and she dropped her baby? Well, couldn't that have happened anyway? Shouldn't the point be to keep your windows shut?

Anyone else have "Cat's in the Cradle" stuck in their head now?

[urbantravels.livejournal.com]

Well, I didn't, but NOW I do.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Ha ha! You're welcome! :D

[urbantravels.livejournal.com]

I wonder if other countries had the same superstition that many in the US had - that you couldn't have a cat in the house with a baby because the cat would lie down on the baby's face and suffocate it.

But it's not a very efficient way of smothering a baby to knock it out of the crib first. Maybe Swiss cats employed falling injuries for their baby-murderin', while American cats were more likely to go with asphyxiation.