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=== Anti-suffragism after the nineteenth amendment === Once the nineteenth amendment was passed, some women who opposed suffrage exercised this right. They took the energy they were investing in the anti-suffrage movement and turned it towards supporting the platform of the Republican party. Former members of anti-suffrage groups in New York became involved in the Women's National Republican Club. In this way, they left the private sphere and entered the public sphere, one of the things that they were resisting in their anti-suffrage efforts. Former anti-suffragist, Ida Tarbell, pointed out that it would take some time for women to get comfortable with voting. Some women didn't vote or get involved in politics. Others, like Annie Nathan Meyer advocated for all anti-suffrage women to not vote in order to allow the country to suffer from what she saw as a terrible decision to allow women to vote. The passage of the Nineteenth Amendment also kickstarted a coalition of anti-suffragists who organized themselves into a political anti-feminist movement in order to "oppose expansion of social welfare programs, women's peace efforts, and to foster a political culture hostile to progressive female activists. This coalition effectively blended anti-feminism and anti-radicalism by embracing and utilizing the hysteria of the post-World War I Red Scare."

==== Modern era ==== In the 2020s, many American far-right figures began to call for the repeal of the Nineteenth Amendment, often connected with the Christian nationalist movement. This viewpoint came to more attention in August 2025, when U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reposted a video on Twitter featuring Doug Wilson, pastor of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, in which video participants discussed repealing the Nineteenth Amendment. In response, Hegseth's press secretary clarified that he supports women's suffrage. Hegseth's pastor, however, along with other senior figures in the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, advocate repealing the Nineteenth Amendment in favor of "household voting," where households would receive a singular vote and the husband would get the final say in the event of disagreement. Other notable political figures connected with this view include Paul Ingrassia, who appeared to endorse this viewpoint in a 2023 podcast interview, Paul Ray Ramsey, Dale Partridge, John Gibbs, and Andrew Tate. Anti-abortion advocate Abby Johnson has advocated replacing the current voting system with one of household voting. In 2022, American political commentator and a far-right white nationalist, activist, Nick Fuentes told the British journalist Louis Theroux that he believes it would be better if women did not have the right to vote. In November 2025, Fuentes said that if he was elected president, he would “just take away the right to vote for tons of people. Women for sure.”

== Criticism ==

There was contemporary criticism of the anti-suffrage movement in the United States. One criticism was that anti-suffragists did not present a consistent argument against suffrage. Other arguments were seen as inconsistent, such as Antis claiming that voting meant women must hold office, when members of anti-suffrage groups were already holding offices such as being on the school board. Other critics, such as Alice Stone Blackwell, pointed out that the anti-suffrage groups exaggerated certain claims, such as membership numbers. Critics also argued that there were no new arguments presented over time. Anti-suffrage groups were also criticized for being "inconsistent" in that they wanted women out of the public sphere, yet they gathered together into public lobbying groups against suffrage. The Valley Independent wrote in 1915 that any organization that wanted to oppose women's suffrage and which was made up of women "leaves a bad taste in our mouth." Some critics were "almost contemptuous," such as Anna Howard Shaw, who said, "You'd think they would have loyalty enough to their sex not to make us all out a set of fools." Shaw believed that Antis were "puppets of more power male forces." Florence Kelley called anti-suffragists "lazy, comfortable, sheltered creatures, caring nothing for the miseries of the poor."

== Archives == The archives of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League are held at The Women's Library at the Library of the London School of Economics, ref 2WNA. The Library and Archives division of the Georgia Historical Society have a collection of broadsides from the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage from 1917 to 1919. The documents appear to be printed by state affiliates of the national group. One of the documents was issued by The Men's Anti-Ratification League of Montgomery, Alabama.

== Notable people == Catharine Beecher Hilaire Belloc G. K. Chesterton Gertrude Bell Emily Bissell Minnie Bronson Beatrice Chamberlain Cola Barr Craig Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren Josephine Jewell Dodge Jeannette Leonard Gilder Emma Goldman Gertrud Haldimann Annie Riley Hale Sarah Josepha Hale Ethel Bertha Harrison (known as. Mrs. Frederic Harrison) Mary Hilliard Hinton Mary, Countess of Ilchester Helen Kendrick Johnson Lillian Bayard Taylor Kiliani Adeline Knapp Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Eliza Lynn Linton Miss Lonsdale Violet Markham Florence Percy McIntyre Charlotte Elizabeth McKay Annie Nathan Meyer Duchess of Montrose Jane Marsh Parker Gladys Pott Sir James Reid, 1st Baronet Molly Elliot Seawell Herbert Spencer Sallie Lewis Stephens Sturgeon Ida Tarbell Alice Hay Wadsworth Mary Augusta Ward

== See also == Antifeminism List of anti-suffragists Timeline of women's suffrage Who Needs Feminism Women Against Feminism Women's suffrage

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