I just read this f word blog post about that iconic photograph from VJ Day where a jubilant sailor kisses a nurse going home from work.
The comments are interesting - debating whether the nurse wanted to be kissed as she said, in the letter she sent to the publishers of the photograph when she was 60, that she had wanted to join in the celebrations, but felt forced into retreating into a subway by an amorous soldier and then the sailor in the photgraph.
The comments have been closed now, and imagine it's because they were becoming a bit too heated for the f-word which, I know, strives to be a safe place to discuss feminism.
But I looked at the article she links to and noticed that the nurse wrote at the end of her letter that she wished she "could have stored that jubilation and amour for use P.R.N."
So, what do you all think? Was she being kissed reluctantly? Was it street harrassment as Jess McCabe suggests? Is Jess being (as some commenters suggested) too serious and humourless?
I can understand why she stopped the comments, but I think it's interesting that she (the nurse) does look like she hasn't any control over the situation, but she has spent the subsequent years recollecting it happily.