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I personally found it sanctimonious when the author spoke of women enjoying their freedom of wearing more revealing clothing at the same time as millions of men

• peterwwillis 10y ago
  The women might have been doing the same - if it were legal for them to do so. Whoops.
  • makomk 10y ago
    At least here in the UK, they were more interested in demanding the government send men off to die more aggressively and shaming individual men into doing the same - apparently to the point that the government had to clamp down because men critical to the war effort at home were quitting and going off to die on the frontlines as a result. The Pankhursts in particular were very enthusiastic about this.
• danharaj 10y ago
  It's worth thinking about why the absence of millions of men led to women being drastically more autonomous and liberal in the ways they go about their lives. And, somehow, despite centuries of being told they weren't worth their labor, women were well capable of managing the labor of an entire industrial superpower all themselves.
• gizmo686 10y ago
  >They are not even remotely relatable. Except causally. If you are going to disagree with a central thesis of someones argument, at least acknowledge that had an argument. Preferably followed by explaining why their argument is incorrect.
• tlb 10y ago
  Women had other great fears. 64M women died in childbirth in the 20th century, comparable to the number of male soldiers who died. And don't underestimate the horrors that women experienced in war-torn countries.