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Horrifying, horrifying share: [A collection of British war propaganda posters is going up for sale, and in doing research for this piece about them, I uncovered an unsettling story about how during the Great War feminists and suffragettes sent men off to die by shaming them into enlistment. How did they shame them? With a simple white feather. . . . Girls with white feathers thought they were being patriotic, but they had no idea what their actions were leading to. They were blissfully unaware of the hypocrisy of claiming men were cowards for staying at home, while they did the same. They were allowed to live, while they took pleasure in humiliating men before sending them off to die. That isn’t patriotism. It’s sadism.]
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 19:00:20 +0000

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