Some man who enlisted in the Marines as a typist-stenographer, now on his way to the front: “Shit.”
In WW1, funny enough, men were originally used for certain communications tasks (because EVERYTHING about WAR is a MAN’S JOB), but as things heated up, they realized communications are kind of fucking important, so they started recruiting women who had professionally performed the tasks in civilian life.
The old idea of picking up the phone, saying “Hello Operator?” and getting a woman’s voice on the other end? That was one of the few socially acceptable jobs for a middle-class woman (obviously, blue-collar work has always been shared, but there’s a certain level of sneering from cultural elites about people in manual labor, and the middle-class has always been sensitive about such things).
Female operators in WW1 were up to five times faster than the men they replaced. Hard to beat several prior years of experience!
Anyway, point is, I’m sure a few of those poor boys weren’t too happy about having their mostly-behind-the-lines job taken and shunted off to where man power was more needed… like the trench firing step.
What’s up with their headwear?
One of them is wearing a helmet, indoors. The size seems to increase from right to left, ending with the woman on the left who has the most comically tall hat I’ve ever seen on someone who wasn’t Abraham Lincoln.
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Is it just me, or the longer you look at this image the more all the women’s faces start too look like they are the same person?
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This is pro-war propaganda.
I promise you I’m not agitating for the USA to join the war against the German Empire.
Funny. But propaganda can be more subtle. You posted a lighthearted image of strong women breaking gender norms by joining the US marines for their justified intervention in Europe.
Right when there’s a very strong possibility that the US marines will be sent to Europe again soon, to invade Greenland.It’s similar to all those “This is what Iranian women wore in the 70s” pictures that always show up when the US and Israel bomb Iran again.
Funny. But propaganda can be more subtle. You posted a lighthearted image of strong women breaking gender norms by joining the US marines for their justified intervention in Europe.
Justified is a strong word for US involvement in WW1.
Right when there’s a very strong possibility that the US marines will be sent to Europe again soon, to invade Greenland.
… I assure you, and any search over my recent posts will confirm, that I’m an opponent of that madness.
It’s similar to all those “This is what Iranian women wore in the 70s” pictures that always show up when the US and Israel bomb Iran again.
Okay, or, consider that Israel has been continously bombing Iran since the first Trump administration, so any fucking post about pre-Islamic Revolution Iran is going to come about in proximity to an Israeli or US attack on Iran.
