Suffrage leader Alice Stone Blackwell wrote in 1914 that "the struggle has never been a fight of woman against man, but always of broad-minded men and women on the one side against narrow-minded men and women on the other." Carrie Chapman Catt agreed, writing that the enemy of suffrage was not men, but resistance to change. How many students are aware that suffragists did not see the campaign as a fight of women against men? Fifteen widely used college textbooks on American history were examined, and not one makes this clear. Nor do these textbooks include Susan B. Anthony's statements that woman suffrage laws "probably never would have passed if it had been up to women to vote on them," and that men were actually more progressive about women's suffrage than women were (1902). In fact, there were many sides to the issue, and each point of view had both male and female supporters. This paper explores the paradox of why intelligent, progressive, capable women led the organized opposition to women's suffrage. It looks at some reasons for their opposition: the problem of the uninformed voter, the idea that civic-minded women had more power without the vote, and the suffragists' many public relations problems. Finally, it explores the origin of the usual women-versus-men view of the suffrage struggle, and suggests changes in how this phase of history is taught.