Lest We Forget.... the Women (79)

Oh, golly goshtah, I didn't forget the ladies of the Suffragettes and the White Feather Girls. That's what the video is about, damn them to hell.

In the World War Two era, approximately 400,000 U.S. women served with the armed forces and more than 460 — some sources say the figure is closer to 543 — lost their lives as a result of the war, including 16 from enemy fire. Women became officially recognized as a permanent part of the armed forces with the passing of the Women's Armed Services Integration Act of 1948.
Several hundred thousand women served in combat roles, especially in anti-aircraft units. The U.S. decided not to use women in combat because public opinion would not tolerate it.
This necessity to use the skills and the time of women was heightened by the nature of the war itself. While World War I was mainly fought in France and was a war arguably without clear aggressor or villain, World War II involved global conflict on an unprecedented scale against certain aggressors. In these circumstances the absolute urgency of mobilizing the entire population made the expansion of the role of women inevitable. The hard skilled labor of women was symbolized in the United States by the concept of Rosie the Riveter, a woman factory laborer performing what was previously considered man's work.
Many women served in the resistances of France, Italy, and Poland, and in the British SOE which aided these.

Yes, in WW2 the poor dears had to suffer awfully. Chocolate and silk stockings were in short supply. How could being cut in half by a machine gun compare to such affliction?

The women had the opportunity to work in the factories because the men were at war. Roughly 80% of the weaponry and ammunition used by the British army during World War I was made by the munitionettes.


Munitionettes worked with hazardous chemicals on a daily basis without proper gear to protect them. Many women worked with trinitrotoluene (TNT), and prolonged exposure to the sulfur turned the women's skin a yellow colour. The women whose skin was turned yellow were popularly called canary girls. Working with such chemicals is dangerous and on several occasions the explosives the women were working with ignited—killing the workers. Prolonged exposure to the chemicals also caused serious health risk for the munitionettes. Exposure over a long period of time to chemicals such as TNT can cause severe harm to the immune system. People exposed to TNT can experience liver failure, anemia, spleen enlargement and TNT can even affect women’s fertility.


One of the most well known explosions in a munition factory was the Silvertown explosion. The explosion killed 73 people and injured over 400.

Say it how you like, you haters can't hide the truth. Women cried but men died.

Deffo off this site

I think Queen Victoria was right when she said the sufregettes should be flogged, men always get the old lie we were opressed crap from feminists thrown at them all the time, they should of sent the suffering gets of to the trenches and sent them up over the top through the mud towards the machine guns and done the world a big favour instead of using the the youngest the fittest lads as cannon fodder, the selfishness is beyond belief.

I couldn't agree more. I think Feminists should be campaigning for women to be sent to the front lines alongside the men immediately. Why aren't they? Oh yeah, they want big jobs in politics and state boards, I see. So that would be selective "equality"?