saving the world?

[Steamfan]

This gem arrived on FB today...

I have replied in no uncertain terms. What a load of rubbish

Was Hitler a woman?

"Was Hitler a woman?"

No, but maybe it was having only one ball that made him so shouty and aggressive?

They’re using “we” in a remarkably broad sense.

hahaha user one of my favourite sketches!

Its like they have a sketch for every occasion

"We"

Superbly appropriate sketch.

That sketch is brilliant.

We need a photo of all the women who worked in the war and caption it "no one said transwomen were women when we were caring for the wounded soldiers".

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Df-uemc-e3w

I always thought calling Virginia Virginia was a bit personal.

Oh the irony!

Bletchly park was run by mostly women, they gave us the edge and shortened the war by at least two years.
That's all.

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They weren't allowed to tell their stories for 50 years either.

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More of 'em.

The Female Spies of the SOE, including Odette Sansom Hallowes who was imprisoned and tortured in Ravensbruk.

www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-Female-Spies-Of-SOE/

Well, that worked - the post has gone! But the poster has put up this "WTAF? Can't have a joke with a mate without someone getting pissed off" - which rather proved my point. Banter, it's always banter.

Oh, and he's now unfriended me! Win win all round!

But of course he has. You probably made him look a bit silly and hurt his man-feelings.

Found this wonderful nugget of history whilst looking for more women gold miners. I think these Russian females were doing more than their bit to save the world, don't you?

paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19420919.2.5.1?query=women%20gold%20miners&page=3&snippet=true

My Mum joined the ATS - she and my Dad were 19 when the Second World War broke out. The lovely photograph of Jeanne in her uniform looks so much like the photograph of my Mum in hers. Good on Tracy King for putting the ignorant men of the gaming world right on women and their service in war.

www.newstatesman.com/culture/games/2018/05/yes-battlefield-v-gamers-there-were-female-soldiers-world-war-ii

Were the British soldiers of WWII wanking every day to films of women being choked, beaten, spat on, jizzed on in the face, and anally ruptured?

I don’t think so. So there’s a change, right there, in the toxicity of masculinity.

You could say it's toxic masculinity that gets us into wars in the first place. Women of course stepped into the breach in both wars.
The gamers might remember the women who ferried the fighter and bomber planes from the factories to the airfields during WW2. At least the British women were recognised after the war ended ,the American women weren't until the 1970s I believe. There was a documentary about the Americas on one of the sky channels recently. I will look up more details on both.
Interesting article on the soviet women, everybody would have been fighting in the siege of Stalingrad.

The American women were called WASPs, the Women Airforce Service Pilots (they were civilians), 38 women were killed during the roughly 2 years they flew. They didn't get any recognition or benefits that the male veterans received. In fact the families of the 38 women who died received no financial assistance toward burying their loved ones.
They were recognised in 1977 and President Obama signed a bill in 2009 awarding them the Congressional Gold Medal. About 300 surviving members went to Washington in March 2010 to receive their medals. (Co-incidentally from Nancy Pelosi). A strong woman.
The British women were in the Air Transport Auxilliary and served from 1940. I believe about 170 were killed including Amy Johnson.
The last surviving member Mary Ellis died in 2018.
Women or girls really as they were then, young women can do anything and did. Gamers are misogynists.

Just a quick add on to this - how I wished I'd seen this before. I was researching something and came across this - I knew about some of this, but the scale is appalling - this is not an easy read - historyimages.blogspot.com/2011/10/mass-rape-german-women-red-army.html?fbclid=IwAR1vxxwhTQmH3vdWHVf65id1BoIE7vPP06-I9vpIzitd-6A8VbdY3M7s-JM