If women ran the world, there would be no war. In 1914 despite widespread pro war propaganda, male enthusiasm for shipping off to go get slaughtered in foreign battlefields was low. To overcome the reluctance of young men to get themselves killed or maimed for the benefit of a few hereditary elites and royals, Admiral Charles Fitzgerald began organizing a groups of women to help “convince” the men of Britain to enlist. Using public humiliation, the objective of these groups was to shame civilian men into joining the armed services. “This aim was to be accomplished by public humiliation — the women handing out white feathers to any man who did not wear a uniform. The feathers were intended as a badge of disgrace, branding the men who received them as cowards, the primary effect of which as to render them as unsuitable in the eyes of women. “The Order of the White Feather” and their recruiting methods quickly spread across Britain. Women of all backgrounds contributed their influence to the war effort.” “(Gullace, “White Feathers” 178) The zeal and the scope of this gendered phenomenon was paralleled only by the contemporaneous movement for suffrage — a movement which, right before the war, had reached a radical pitch. It is in the radical nature of “The White Feather Brigade” — the confrontational method which was employed by these women toward men — that a tactical tie is evidenced between the pro-suffrage and pro-enlistment movements. It is in the motives and movements of Emmeline Pankhurst that an ideological connection is discovered between the feminine pro-war demonstration of the “White Feather Girls” and the Suffragists.” A feminized society shaming men into compliance is not merely a relic of the past. Feminists and women shaming men into compliance with an entirely self serving definition of masculinity is actually a core component of an ideology that masquerades as humanism. The only possibly new element is that growing numbers of men are refusing to play along. Understanding among a small but growing fraction of our culture is that feminism is a fraudulent sham, built on lies and violence, which depends totally on suppressing the humanity of the penis-owning half of the population. The shaming language used today is only slightly more sophisticated than the label ”coward” of the “go get killed in a freezing trench” campaign of feminists in the 1st world war.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 18:52:29 +0000
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