I don’t think popular public opinion was much in the suffragettes favor either back then. I’m sure they were the unwashed, bra burners of their day to a great many people.
Look, I’m not saying I like the dyke aspect of the women’s movement, or the radical eradicate men side either. I’m just acknowledging that ground was gained for women. I’ll not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Public opinion was very much against the suffragettes, largely because of the violent nature of their protests.
They get all the publicity because of that, but it was the suffragists, not the suffragettes, who actually got the vote for women.