White Feather Reflection

The combination of patriotism, the need for men at the front, and the prior oppression inflicted on the women of Britain (patriarchy)was just what the war needed. The army could not rely on the first two conditions alone. To get the men out, it was necessary to utilize the female guilt trip. And, like Compton MacKenzie opined, they guilted their unappreciative, abusive, or just plain uninspiring bed buddies into the war and out of their hair. Let the Sisterhood prevail! I wonder if, for a second, the thought of "gender-cide" warmed their hearts? Or if women in the Industrialized world had ever come so close to overseeing their own lives? Did they ever dare to wonder at what cost their temporary freedom came?