The British White Feather Women of WW I - the ultimate in shaming?

[MatureDJ]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/11/first-world-war-white-feather-cowardice

My opinion of these women:

Interestingly the mother of my own grandfather forced him to dodge the draft in Spain about that time.

 

[Bokanovsky]

"The Order of the White Feather, founded in August 1914 by Admiral Charles Fitzgerald, encouraged women to give out white feathers to young men who had not joined the British army."

It is often the case that female misbehavior becomes widespread as a consequence of being tolerated or even encouraged and supported by powerful men in high places. Even the feminist movement itself was started by men. Towards the end of the 19th century, as the industrial revolution was reaching its final stages, there was a tremendous upward pressure on wages, as western economies grew quickly and demand for labor was high. This left the financial elite with two choices: a) pay higher wages to men; or b) get women to work for cheap. Enter the first stage of the feminist movement.

The next stage was to get women to vote, as certain male politicians (particularly those on the left) realized that they could manipulate female voters to support their causes. Those who have studied history know that the suffragette movement was not started by a woman. it was started by John Stuart Mill, an influential 19th century British philosopher, economist and civil servant.

 

[Burroughs]

"Like a woman, the masses fluctuate between extremes... The crowd is not only like a woman, but women constitute the most important element of the audience. The women usually lead, then follow the children, and at last, when I have already won over the whole family--follow the fathers." -Adolf Hitler

this is how the elite operate...and why women are promoted by elite men who hunger for power

chilling :box:

 

[Warrior74]

Of course it's the ultimate in shaming. We are tribal animals after all and an animal that will not fight to protect the tribe is more than useless. Of course modern warfare is less about protecting the tribe and more about resources and politics (but mainly resources) and yet that ancient mindset can be used to manipulate men into giving up their lives for patches of land, oil or the just the whims of old men.

 

[betheman]

The Irony is that the CO's were not cowards but in fact as brave as any soldier in any way, they faced death, beatings, humiliation, families turning their backs on them...because they didnt beleive in the cause, they stood their ground against massive odds.
Rudyard Kipling was a C unt, he was bigging up the glorious war long before a bullet or shell had been fired. WWII was planned not long after WWI because some psychopaths 'believed' in it.

 

[Bokanovsky]

Rudyard Kipling was a C unt, he was bigging up the glorious war long before a bullet or shell had been fired. WWII was planned not long after WWI because some psychopaths 'believed' in it.

I don't think Kipling was a "cvnt" anymore than a modern AFC is a cvnt. Like most men of his generation, he was brainwashed to believe certain things about war, glory and other things of that nature. Britain did not become the largest empire in history by being a nation of pacifists.

 

[TonyBaloney]

Conversely, the last person alive in England born before 1900, a lady called Grace Jones, who still lives in her own home in Bermondsey, London, lost her love in 1917. She was so heartbroken that she never married or had kids..... Nearly 95 years single...... Fair play to that lovely old lady

 

[betheman]

I don't think Kipling was a "cvnt" anymore than a modern AFC is a cvnt. Like most men of his generation, he was brainwashed to believe certain things about war, glory and other things of that nature. Britain did not become the largest empire in history by being a nation of pacifists.

Kipling was a C unt, he was one of a small grop who were responisble for the brainwashing, promoting the view that men should die in the glory of battle....until his own son died in that very arena, hence his own words...""If any question why we died/ Tell them, because our fathers lied."
he was a lying C unt and countless lives were lost needlessly because of Cun ts like him