I think many people have heard the word "pastoral feminism", which means that the mouth shouts "demand equality between men and women", but in fact, it requires men to bear the main responsibility, and uses feminism as an excuse to pursue women's benefits maximization, generally referring to "self-interested feminism".
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All kinds of boxers put themselves in the position of "victims" at every turn, constantly launching online violence, making many innocent men become the targets of attacks, and even "social death".
For example, the previous Qingmei sister incident almost made a boy wronged for life, if there is no video to prove innocence, these years will not be better.
But these boxers are no matter how powerful, it is nothing more than looking for stubble everywhere on the Internet, although it has a bad impact on social harmony, but the "real lethality" of men is not strong.
However, in Britain and the United States, there was such a group of extremely powerful feminists, who said that they would fight for women's political participation, but in action, they took to the streets to humiliate men in front of their faces with white feathers and force them to a dead end.
Why does a feather have so much magic? Today I would like to share with you the "White Feather Campaign" that once swept the United Kingdom and the United States.
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<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="25" after > the Industrial Revolution, the women's suffrage movement emerged</h1>
After the Industrial Revolution, the overall social structure of Britain underwent tremendous changes, and with the continuous emergence of various types of factories, the ambitions of capitalists to seize the market were also increasing.
Women and children are less efficient than male workers in many positions, physically, but relatively low wages.
However, capitalists desperately lower the wages of women and children on the grounds of work efficiency when recruiting workers, but extend the working hours when they are really working to make up for the lack of efficiency.
In this way, the output has not been greatly affected, the wage cost has been reduced, and it is possible to exclude male workers through women as a weight to reduce male wages.
In the first half of the nineteenth century, they began various strike movements, demanding higher wages and improved working conditions.
As women's participation in the functioning of society continues to deepen, the degree of their social contribution and the incompatibility of their status as political rights become more prominent.
As a result, a large number of British women began to struggle for their social status, and various women's organizations for political participation were established, such as the "Women's Rights League", "Women's Social and Political Alliance", "Women's Participation League" and so on.
Although the women's political participation movement in Britain was in full swing, it had not achieved satisfactory results under the male-dominated social system.
But just when all kinds of women's organizations were at a loss for their future action plans, a godsend had arrived, and that was the "First World War."
<h1 class = "pgc-h-center-line" data-track="25" > World War I broke out, women threw themselves into the "White Feather Movement"</h1>
On June 28, 1914, Archduke Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, was shot dead by a Serbian youth while inspecting Sarajevo, which became the trigger for the First World War.
In the following four years, more than thirty countries, including the German Empire, austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, British Empire, France, and Russian Empire, began to fight.
I will not dwell on the horrors of the First World War, but at least in Britain, 5.7 million troops were mobilized to fight, and 900,000 people were killed.
In the course of the war, a large number of young and middle-aged men in Britain have gone to the front line to fight, and the domestic productivity is empty, resulting in higher social participation and greater importance of women, which is undoubtedly great news for feminist organizations.
At that time, British Royal Army General Charles Fitzgerald was worried about the scorching war situation, so he wanted to stimulate the youth in the rear and encourage them to actively join the army.
After pondering and meditating, he suddenly had an epiphany and came up with a bad move, which was the "Humiliating Radical Technique".
Charles Fitzgerald
In order to make the young people in the rear forced to join the army under the pressure of public opinion, he encouraged the people in the rear to publicly humiliate the healthy young people as cowards.
Because the way to humiliate the other party is to give the other party a white feather symbolizing "coward", this movement is called the "White Feather Movement" or "White Feather Battle".
Why white feathers?
Because in the novel Four Feathers, a young British officer, Harry, resigns from the British army in an attempt to escape the war, and when he returns home, he receives four white feathers, three from his comrades-in-arms and one from his fiancée, symbolizing cowardice and loss of respect.
As soon as the campaign was launched, some radical women's organizations surrounded them like flies and expressed their full support for the General's initiative.
But when they saw a healthy man, they would stop him in groups of three or five, and while verbally humiliating, they would stuff white feathers into his clothes and then fly away.
Paintings that reflect female boxers insulting men
If you think you can go out as little as possible and hide at home, you're naïve. Women in England have an intelligence network, and don't you know if you're a soldier or not?
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="25" > radical women blindly humiliated, And British men were forced to die</h1>
The "White Feather Movement" was in full swing and did have an effect, because for men receiving white feathers is a great humiliation, which is basically equivalent to sentencing social death.
However, in addition to being timid, there are "many reasons" for a man not to join the army, such as not being able to join the army because he is not in good health, or for example, the state has arranged more important work than joining the army, such as temporarily unable to join the army because of family reasons, and even some soldiers who have retired from the battlefield.
If women do have a pair of fiery eyes that can identify the status of each man and ensure that all the white feathers are given to healthy men who have not joined the army, then that is it.
A man who is given a white feather
But how do these women judge a man's status after they take to the streets?
The fact is that they do not ask the men carefully about the situation, as long as they see that the man in front of them is not superficially disabled, they will think that they are eligible for joining the army, and then they will rush forward without saying a word to frantically humiliate and force white feathers.
In this case, although some women believe that the white feather movement is helping the country and promoting women's political status, it has actually caused a bad impact in many cases.
(1) When war broke out in 1914, a man immediately enlisted in the army, but was turned away because of his poor eyesight. But the visual impairment could not be seen, so in the ensuing time, he was humiliated several times by radical women with white feathers.
Humiliated, he finally tried to enlist in the army again in 1916, and by this time the selection criteria for soldiers had been greatly reduced, so he successfully joined the army with poor eyesight. It is conceivable that this physical condition will survive on the battlefield, so this trip becomes a farewell.
His family will always remember the tragedy, and the man's daughter, who had already suffered from Alzheimer's disease in her later years, could still remember the scene when her father left and was angry at the "white feather movement" and "the woman who handed her father the white feathers".
(2) In 1916, a retired soldier named Norman Demuth was riding a bus, and he was a heroic musician before the war, and he was forced to retire after being wounded.
Feeling so ashamed, Demet wiped his pipe with a feather in anger, saying that he needed the white feather because he never saw anything clean when fighting in the trenches. At this time, the passengers in the car also began to angrily scold the woman.
(3) Even more speechless is the victorian cross, the highest military medal in Britain, for his heroic performance at the Battle of Gallipoli.
He helped hundreds of wounded soldiers in battle, enabling them to survive and continue fighting under heavy artillery fire, but in the end he was seriously injured, which shows that this is definitely a big hero.
However, it was such a hero who, after being awarded the medal by the king himself, was forced to have white feathers stuffed by a lady while walking that night.
Even combat heroes cannot avoid being humiliated, and many soldiers on the front line would rather die on the battlefield after hearing about this situation than retire on time and return home with white feathers, thus bringing shame to their families.
For example, a 15-year-old boy who lied about his age to join the army, was found to be age falsified by doctors after a year of fighting, and then sent home by the army.
On the way home, he was stuffed with white feathers by four girls, and he had to go into the recruitment office again to fake the army, and finally was "blown to pieces" in the battle.
Because of the increasing tragedy caused by the White Feather Movement, the British government had to design a silver pin that could prove the status of retirement and issue it to every soldier who retired due to injury or illness.
A pin that proves post-war retirement status
Some men who had never participated in the war were more anxious, and if they could join the army, they might be fine, and those who could not join the army and could not bear the constant humiliation chose to commit suicide and were forced to die by a light white feather.
The White Feather Movement continued to "play its heat" during World War II, and in 1943, an 18-year-old boy named Cyril R Wray signed up for the army, but did not receive any notice of joining the army. So he received a letter with white feathers, and he was so humiliated that he chose to "commit suicide by gas".
That same year, Bernard Sills, a 17-year-old boy who had been refused entry into the army because he was an underage, also received white feathers in a letter, as well as two white feathers spelled out in the shape of a question mark, with the word cowardly in the letter.
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However, instead of feeling remorseful, the White Feathers continued to send humiliating letters to the boy's friends, but fortunately the boy who received the letter was stronger and did not choose to commit suicide.
The ultimate effect of the White Feather Movement is unknown, but it has had a very bad social impact, and these self-righteous and radical women have no rationality or sympathy in order to attract public attention and promote the so-called "political status".
Regardless of the feelings of others, they use the White Feather Movement to force countless men who should not have gone to the battlefield to the front line, so that many men who cannot participate in the war for objective reasons commit suicide in shame, but they themselves do not have to bear any responsibility, and have to say that it is really "murderous heart".
As Sergeant Coulson Knahan of the British Army Recruitment Service said—