Any involvement with the movement made women looked down upon by many. Many were arrested and jailed for several days. They were attacked and mistreated. Alice Paul, the organizer of the Pennsylvania Avenue suffrage parade, was arrested and put into "solitary confinement and denied counsel" (http://historywired.si.edu/detail.cfm?ID=492). She was "force-fed...with a tube up the nose and down the throat" (http://historywired.si.edu/detail.cfm?ID=492) to pour liquid down to her stomach. She was also sent to a psychiatric ward in attempts to discredit her. The radical actions that suffragists participated in were considered extremely disobedient and were unjustifiably