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I'm not sure they were "offended," but there certainly were some women who strongly disagreed with feminism and did not understand the fight for equal rights. The women who opposed it were generally very traditional and very religious. They believed men were supposed to be in charge, and that women were not meant to be equal to men; they also believed feminists were women who wanted to be men, or at least act like men. The anti-feminists supported traditional gender roles, and did not want to see those roles change in any way. And they could not understand why these "women's libbers" wanted to stir things up. In the view of the opponents of women's rights, women already had all the rights they needed, as wives and mothers, and if a woman was dissatisfied, she was obviously not "normal."

But this was not really anything new: even back during the era of fighting for the vote (especially from 1900 to 1919), there were "anti-suffragists," conservative women who did not want the vote and did not believe women should be in the political arena. As they saw it, a woman was supposed to remain at home and be a wife and mother, not become someone who gets involved with politics. When the women's movement and second-wave feminism came along, its greatest enemies were the traditional women who were threatened (and appalled) at what they saw as a rejection of the proper roles of men and women, roles that were, they believed, established by God Himself.

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