Being forced into war is causing men to take their own life

fredfriendshp · 2022-05-12T18:36:55+00:00

You might want to read about the white feather movement. A feminist endorsed movement who shamed man to go to fight in wars and sent many young men to their deaths.

At the start of World War I, Admiral Charles Fitzgerald, who was a strong advocate of conscription wanted to increase the number of those enlisting in the armed forces. Therefore he organized on 30 August 1914 a group of thirty women in his home town of Folkestone to hand out white feathers to any men that were not in uniform. Fitzgerald believed using women to shame the men into enlisting would be the most effective method of encouraging enlistment.[5][6] The group that he founded (with prominent members being Emma Orczy and the prominent author Mary Augusta Ward) was known as the White Feather Brigade or the Order of the White Feather.[7]

Although the draft would conscript both sexes, only males would be on the front lines.[8][9][10][check quotation syntax] While the true effectiveness of the campaign is impossible to judge, it spread throughout several other nations in the empire. In Britain, it started to cause problems for the government when public servants and men in essential occupations came under pressure to enlist. That prompted Home Secretary Reginald McKenna to issue employees in state industries with lapel badges reading "King and Country" to indicate that they were serving the war effort. Likewise, the Silver War Badge, which was given to service personnel who had been honourably discharged by wounds or sickness, was first issued in September 1916 to prevent veterans from being challenged for not wearing uniform.[7] Anecdotes from the time indicate that the campaign was not popular among soldiers, not least because soldiers who were home on leave could find themselves presented with feathers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_featherhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_feather

CaptBerlin · 2022-05-12T07:41:23+00:00

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Shadowdragon409 · 2022-05-12T11:43:56+00:00

Western propaganda. I advise you to watch russian propaganda and most importantly independent medias so you can build up a strong opinion on the subject.

Blablabblue · 2022-05-15T17:03:03+00:00

Ughh, cry about it. European women are also going into mandatory enlistment if there happens to be a war breakout.

Used-Repair-2501 · 2022-08-25T13:54:45+00:00

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Title	Being forced into war is causing men to take their own life
Author	mykoiy
Upvotes	142
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Date	May 12, 2022 5:30 AM UTC (4 years ago)
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