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Believing that these passionate poetic acts of violence and self harm brought about women's suffrage is certainly alluring but it was actually peacefully massive organizations that did the leg work. These acts of public violence were considered harmful to the suffrage movement at the time and modern scholars also agree with that sentiment. People have romanticized it because it's a more exciting thing to believe than the truth.