Some women tried to resurrect the infamous white feather campaign at start of Second World War

2012-10-30T10:21:52+00:00

Luckily, our perceptions have changed during the past hundred years. Back then, it was thought that war participation would build character, and many men were very happy to sign up for the onslaught for that reason. They beleived that the war would turn them into "Real men", by giving them courage and resolve. It was also honorable to stand up for your country; people were generally far more patriotic back then.

Of course, it didn't go nearly as expected. The war didn't turn boys into men as everyone beleived, but the 4 years in trenches, seeing people bombarded and die meaningless deaths, instead turned the boys into anxiety-filled shells of human beings. Post-traumatic stress disorder ruined their lives, and turned them into "Bumbling cowards", and no one understood why.

There are many ways men become victims of societal norms and practices, but this is perhaps one of the most obvious. If war, aggression, courage, honor, and patriotism wasn't so directly tied to masculinity, maybe all these men didn't have to die meaningless deaths. Sigmund Freud gained popularity because people were baffled by PTSD, and even though his approach was partly wrong, it's still quite right to say that the enlisting of so many men in the world war 1 trenches, were one of the reasons psychology had its breakthrough.

sp8der · 2012-10-30T15:03:04+00:00

The concept of a white feather campaign is everything that's wrong with society. Don't shame people for not doing something you can't do yourself. That's just common courtesy to say the least.

BrSy · 2012-10-30T08:26:07+00:00

Even if they did do this, the simple solution is if all guy's just ignored them, no shame=white feather fails

ObsidianOverlord · 2012-10-30T19:24:41+00:00

Oh, dat' article.

Sweet.

JockeVXO · 2012-10-30T22:13:03+00:00

What purpose would it have served? Wasn't conscription enacted at the outbreak of WW2 in Britain?

Title	Some women tried to resurrect the infamous white feather campaign at start of Second World War
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Date	October 30, 2012 6:53 AM UTC (13 years ago)
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