So according to Wikipedia:

In August 1914, at the start of the First World War, Admiral Charles Fitzgerald founded the Order of the White Feather with support from the prominent author Mrs Humphrey Ward. The organization aimed to shame men into enlisting in the British Army by persuading women to present them with a white feather if they were not wearing a uniform.

So not only were women objectifying men, and shaming them into going to war... but they were doing it on the behest of a male authority figure.

Reminded me of manwomanmyths ideas about government sponsoring feminism here in the UK in order to double the workforce.