Get ready to be drafted

[hayag25]

Like I said before: what a beautiful time to be a woman~~~~~~~
There is nothing in this world I would trade for to be a woman~~~

Why would i want to be a man? They have to pay the bills, handle the physical shaqo, and go to war looooooool!

Women are War booty for the Victors and Conquerors remember that

, part of life

 

[Nak-Muay-Femeu]

Fucking hell, imagine Zoomers on the front line?

"Yo no cap, when that shrapnel ripped bro's intestines out, I was shook fr fr. On god, I can't wait to get leave, I'm finna give this femboy baddie on OnlyFans my whole paycheque bruh. Lemme see what that boy-pussy do aha-.. of f*ck, INCOMING MORTAR ROUND!"

 

[Yaraye]

Women are War booty for the Victors and Conquerors remember thatView attachment 255759, part of life

men aren't so safe either especially in the army where everyone is a man
protect you anus saaxiib

 

[Basra]

men aren't so safe either especially in the army where everyone is a man
protect you anus saaxiib

only exit NO entry for the anus ! Compri?

 

[Yaraye]

only exit NO entry for the anus ! Compri? View attachment 255761

not for sex deprived men It's famously known that men in prison are r-worded. Same thing for men in the army, there is less attention on them.

 

[Basra]

not for sex deprived men It's famously known that men in prison are r-worded. Same thing for men in the army, there is less attention on them.

 

[Yaraye]

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what does that mean?

 

[Basra]

what does that mean?

 

[JackieBurkhart]

Cinderella dream~~~~

Yup!

 

[Danakiil]

Fucking hell, imagine Zoomers on the front line?

"Yo no cap, when that shrapnel ripped bro's intestines out, I was shook fr fr. On god, I can't wait to get leave, I'm finna give this femboy baddie on OnlyFans my whole paycheque bruh. Lemme see what that boy-pussy do aha-.. of f*ck, INCOMING MORTAR ROUND!"
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[Somali Saayid]

Fucking hell, imagine Zoomers on the front line?

"Yo no cap, when that shrapnel ripped bro's intestines out, I was shook fr fr. On god, I can't wait to get leave, I'm finna give this femboy baddie on OnlyFans my whole paycheque bruh. Lemme see what that boy-pussy do aha-.. of f*ck, INCOMING MORTAR ROUND!"
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Who said they're gonna make it to the frontline? What if they hold them back at boot camp?

 

[shaax macaan]

Alx im not a guy

 

[Somali Saayid]

Alx im not a guy

Yup!

Cinderella dream~~~~

Ya'll really don't know what the women do during war time?

 

[Somali Saayid]

With thousands of men away serving in the armed forces, British women took on a variety of new jobs during the First and Second World Wars.

Many of these roles had traditionally only been done by men and were thought unsuitable for women because they were dirty or difficult. But now, all over the country, women became train cleaners, bus conductors, volunteer policewomen; they worked with dangerous chemicals in factories, drove tractors on farms and transported coal on barges.




WW2 Women's Land Army Recruitment Poster


Women’s work would be vital to the British war effort in World War Two, so much so that it soon became compulsory (women had to do it by law). Early in 1941, Ernest Bevin, the Government Minister for Labour, declared that, 'one million wives' were 'wanted for war work'. Later that year, in December 1941, women began to be conscripted for war work, when Parliament passed the National Service Act.




Register and Photos of Workers at RAF Conningsby


All unmarried women aged 20-30, (later extended to 19-43), now had to either join the armed forces, work in a factory or work on the land with the Women's Land Army.

Women in the Armed Forces​

During the Second World War, women served in the armed forces, including, for example:

The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS)​

The ATS was the women's branch of the British Army during World War Two (see the ATS recruitment poster above). Women between the ages of 17 and 43 could join and, although they were barred from serving in battle, they could take on other roles, such as cooks, storekeepers, orderlies, drivers and postal workers. Later in the war, when there was a shortage of men available to do some jobs, women in the ATS became radar operators and anti-aircraft gun crew members as well.




Recruitment Poster for the ATS Catering Corps

The Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS)​

At the start of the war, the women’s arm of the Royal Navy was seen as a way of freeing men in non-combatant roles (like driving or cooking) to fight. 'Join the Wrens today and free a man to join the Fleet’, one recruitment poster urged. Nicknamed ‘Wrens’, these women went on to do extremely important and varied work, from code-breaking at Bletchley Park to operating radar equipment.

Women also served with a range of other services​

- the Women’s Land Army and the Women’s Timber Corps

- as pilots and ground crew in the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA)

- in the Women’s Auxiliary Service, as voluntary policewomen

- as military nurses or volunteer nurses (VADs) with the Voluntary Aid Detachment

- and even as spies with the Special Operations Executive (SOE)

Discussion Ideas​

• Why do you think women were banned from fighting?
• Some people did not approve of women working in WW2. What reasons might they have had for this?
• When conscription was first introduced, only unmarried women between the ages of 20 and 30 were called up.
  - Why do you think this was?
  - Do you think this was fair?
• How you think views of women workers changed during and after WW2?
• Do you have a female relative who worked in WW2?
• Are there still any jobs that women are banned from doing today?

Activity Ideas​

• Research women in the British Armed Forces today:
  - Are women allowed to serve in battle today?
  - What sort of roles do women carry out in the modern armed forces?
  - Are there any different rules for women in the British Army these days?
  Look at modern recruitment posters aimed at women. Compare them to the ATS poster above and the WW2 recruitment posters on the Leeds University Wiki website (see link below).

• Analysing sources - ATS poster:
  - How is the woman in the poster presented?
  - Is she shown as a professional worker? If not, why not?
  - What do you think of the work she is doing?
  - To what extent could the poster be described as presenting traditional ‘women’s work’?
  
  Using the poster images from the Leeds University Wiki page, compare the ATS poster to how women’s war work is presented in other recruitment posters.
  - What similarities are there between the posters?
  - How do they present women’s war work differently?
  - How might they be exaggerating or presenting things in a positive light?
  - Which war work would you prefer to do, just from looking at the posters?

Glossary​

Anti-aircraft gun - guns which shoot at aircraft attacking overhead
Auxiliary - acting as support or back-up
Bletchley Park - place where people tried to break coded messages to find out German plans during WW2
Compulsory - something you have to do
Conscripted - having join the armed services without a choice
Non-combatant - someone in the military who does not fight
Operating - managing, running
Orderlies - non-medical workers who help in hospitals
Recruitment - taking on new workers

 

[Somali Saayid]

Munitions Factories in WW2 – ‘Canary Girls’​

Around 950,000 British women worked in munitions factories during the Second World War, making weapons like shells and bullets. Munitions work was often well-paid but involved long hours, sometimes up to seven days a week. Workers were also at serious risk from accidents with dangerous machinery or when working with highly explosive material.


Women Working in a WW2 Munitions Factory

In February 1944 there was a serious accident at the Royal Ordnance Factory in Kirby, Lancashire. In one building 19 workers, mainly women, were filling trays of anti-tank mine fuses when one of the fuses exploded, setting off the rest of the fuses in the tray.

The Daily Telegraph reported what happened next:

The girl working on that tray was killed outright and her body disintegrated; two girls standing behind her were partly shielded from the blast by her body, but both were seriously injured, one fatally. The factory was badly damaged: the roof was blown off, electric fittings were dangling precariously; and one of the walls was swaying in the breeze.

Some munitions workers handled toxic chemicals every day. Those who handled sulphur were nicknamed ‘Canary Girls’, because their skin and hair turned yellow from contact with the chemical.

A Canary Girl's Story​

Former WW2 munitions worker, Gwen Thomas from Liverpool remembered her work vividly:

...there was no training. You were put into what they called small shops where they made different sizes of shells and landmines and different things like that…you were just told what you had to do, filling them with TNT.

And there was a lot involved in doing them, and they had to be filled to a certain level and then you had to put a tube in which was going to contain the detonator. Then it had to be all cleaned and scraped until it was exactly the right height inside the shells or the mines.

It was quite heavy work actually because they used to have like a big cement mixer, type of thing and this was hot TNT. The smell was terrible and you had to go to that with something like a watering can, and take it up. There was a chap on it who used to tilt it and fill your big can, and you'd have to carry that to where you were working and then fill the shells from that.

I slipped on the floor with one of these big cans and I was covered in TNT. My eyes were concealed and everything, up my nose, it was everywhere. Some of the chaps that were working there got hold of me and put me onto a trolley and took me down to the medical place and obviously I had to wait for it to set on my face. I had quite a job getting it off my eyelashes, you know and that sort of thing. And of course my face then was red and scarred with the hot TNT, you know. They put me on the bed for an hour or something, and then it was straight back to work after that.

(Quoted on the Liverpool Museums website)

Discussion Ideas​

• What reasons do you think munitions workers might have had for choosing this type of war work?
• What do you think working on a production line might have been like?
• Stories of accidents at munitions factories were not always reported in the press. Why might this have been?
• Gwen Thomas went to rest 'for an hour' after her accident and then went straight back to work. How do you think attitudes to health and safety have changed?

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Activity Ideas​

• Analysing sources: Look at the photograph above of women working on a production line in a factory in the East Midlands during World War Two. What does it tell you about women’s munitions work?
  - How old are the women?
  - What do their ages tell you?
  - What are they wearing?
  - Does their work look interesting?
  - Can you see any safety equipment in the factory?

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Glossary​

Canary - small, yellow songbird
Concealed - hidden or covered
Conscripted - having no choice but to join the armed services
Detonator - device that makes a bomb explode
Disintegrated - break up into tiny pieces
Explosive - something that explodes/blows up
Landmine - bomb that goes off when someone steps on it
Munitions - military weapons
Ordnance - military department that looks after weapons
Precariously - unsafely, not balanced
Sulphur - chemical element used in acid and gunpowder
Toxic - poisonous

 

[Somali Saayid]

Land Girls and Lumber Jills​

The Women’s Land Army (WLA) was formed in 1917, during the First World War, when food shortages meant that the government had to fix prices and eventually introduce rationing. As merchant ships were being attacked, it was harder and harder to import food to Britain. To help boost food production, ‘Land Girls’ were sent out to farms as extra workers.


WW2 Land Army Recruitment Poster

A large number came from rural areas and knew what the work would be like, but many of those from towns and cities had a shock in store. Life in the Land Army was very different from the recruitment posters. Land Girls found themselves driving tractors, catching rats, milking cows and harvesting crops. The work was hard, a 50-hour week, involving long days outdoors in all weathers, and the risk of injury.


WW2 Land Army Woman With a Horse

The letter below, reports that Betty Simon, a Land Girl working in Nottingham, had to return home on sick leave in 1942, as ‘her arms are useless through sun burn’. Despite the hardship, many Land Girls enjoyed their work and felt that they were helping the war effort. In 2008 their achievements were finally recognised when the government awarded a special badge to surviving Land Girls and Lumber Jills.


Letter Detailing a Land Army Woman's Sick Leave

The Women’s Timber Corps​

Known as ‘Lumber Jills’, from 1942 members of the Women’s Timber Corps worked in forestry. They felled trees, measured logs, lugged timber on to trucks, and then drove it to the saw mills.
One former Lumber Jill, Edna Holland, was just 17 when she went to work in a Lumber Jill camp in Boltby, on the North Yorkshire Moors. Her days started at 7.30am and finished around 5pm and at the weekends she enjoyed going to dances. She didn’t think much of the uniform of ‘shoes, boots, jodhpurs, dungarees, two shirts, a green jumper, coat and beret. The dungarees did not stay like that for long as we cut them off into shorts’.
Edna found her work hard but rewarding: ‘we learnt such a lot. We started off by learning to fell a tree. Then we were taught how to measure different sized pit props. My goodness we got muscles everywhere, but it made us feel really good. (Quotes sourced from a Guardian article).

Interview with Brenda Gibson, former ‘Lumber Jill’​

Brenda Gibson joined the Women’s Timber Corps around 1942-3, when she was 18 years old. She had been working in the Ministry of Food but left because she felt ‘as though I wanted to do something really positive’ for the war effort. The following is a transcript of an interview with Brenda:
Interviewer: Why did you want to leave the Ministry of Food and go into the Timber Corps?
BG: Well, I felt as though I wasn’t doing anything really constructive. I wanted to do something to help the war effort…Of course, mum...wasn’t too happy about it thinking I’d got to go away from home and all that business because earlier on when I’d been doing a bit of work...with ENSA [Entertainments National Service Association who provided entertainment for troops overseas]
I could have joined Geraldo’s troupe, which went to north Africa, but it had to have my parents’ signature and they wouldn’t sign, they didn’t want me to go, to leave home, you see, because I was so young...So I said, “Well, ok, that’s it but I want to do something, I feel I’m not doing enough sitting behind a desk and writing permits out.”
Interviewer: You’ve said that the Timber Corps were, kind of really, the unsung heroines, if you like, of the Land Army.
BG: Oh, we kept the timber, furniture industry going and also the ships at sea because certain timbers that came in were made to go on motor torpedo boats and motor launches and gun boats, which they needed when they’d been blown up, they needed replacements. So the timber was there because we couldn’t import it due to the, you know, the ships being torpedoed.

Discussion Ideas​

• Do you think war work on the land turned out to be as exciting as young women like Brenda Gibson hoped?
• Why do you think women had for choosing outdoor work?
• What sort of risks do you think these women took?
• Why do you think there were food shortages in WW2?

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Activity Ideas​

• Read the interview with Brenda Gibson:
  - How did she feel about her role with the Timber Corps?
  - Was she happy to help with the War Effort?
  - What do you think the role meant to Brenda?

• Compare sources: Look carefully at the photograph above of the land girl holding a horse and compare it to the Land Army recruitment poster.
  - How do the two women in the pictures differ?
  - From what you know about the WLA and the sort of work women did, do you think the poster shows an accurate picture of their lives?
  - Why might the poster present the WLA in a certain way?

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Glossary​

Achievement – doing something good
Constructive – doing something helpful
ENSA (Entertainments National Service Association) – army group of actors, entertainers and musicians who provided entertainments for troops overseas
Felled – cut down
Harvesting – gathering crops when they are ripe
Jodhpurs – trousers wide at the hips and narrow at the bottom
Merchant ships – ships transporting food and goods
Permits – forms allowing people to do something
Rationing – when the amount of food people are allowed is fixed by the government
Recruitment - taking on new workers
Timber – wood that has been sawn up to be used in building

 

[Somali Saayid]

The Importance of Volunteers​

The government realised before the war broke out that volunteers would be important to the war effort. To motivate people to begin volunteering they published a number of powerful speeches and persuasive posters.


ARP Recruitment Speech Aimed at Women

The two speeches on this page were designed to recruit volunteers to the ARP (Air Raid Precautions). They were read out at sports matches, with one aimed at women and the other at men. The first one urges people to volunteer and help prepare even before the war: 'if the cloud that overhangs Europe should burst, it won't be rain but bombs that will fall, and God help us if we are caught unprepared.’


ARP recruitment speech aimed at men

Air Raid Precautions (ARP)​

After the air raids on Britain during the First World War, the government feared that air raids by German bomber aircraft would threaten people in the UK again. The ARP was set up to organise public air raid shelters and made sure people kept to the Blackout precautions.
German bombers could use any light sources to navigate, people had to use 'blackout’ on their windows - putting up thick curtains or painting the windows black. Street lights were extinguished and even bicycle lights were not allowed, so many people had accidents in the dark.
The ARP also helped rescue people after air raids. Some women became ARP ambulance attendants - giving first aid to casualties, searching for survivors and recovering bodies. The two photographs on the right of this page show women performing some of their duties as ARP wardens.

The Women’s Voluntary Service​

The Women’s Voluntary Service was formed as the women’s side of the ARP. They had no uniform and were all volunteers. In the first few weeks after war broke out in September 1939, WVS volunteers sprang into action to assist with the mass evacuation of schoolchildren all over the country, making sure that children found foster parents and checking that they were well cared for.


Female Wardens Inspecting Gas Masks

They made bandages and knitted and sewed clothing, like scarves, vests and pyjamas for soldiers; salvaged objects that could be recycled; ran mobile canteen services during air raids and for troops arriving at ports and railway stations. But the WVS was particularly appreciated during the Blitz on London, as they cared for people whose homes were bombed and found them clothing. However, their work was not without risks and 241 of WVS members were killed.


Female Stretcher Bearers in WW2

Discussion Ideas​

• Why do you think the government used volunteers instead of the army for the work the ARP and WVS did?
• How do you think people felt about blackout?
• What other kinds of changes to daily life do you think there might have been in WW2?
• Why do you think the work of the ARP and WVS was important?
• What do you think evacuation involved? Why were the WVS needed?

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Activity Idea​

• Comparing sources: Read both versions of the ARP recruitment speech. Pick out the key differences between the speech for men and the speech for women.
  - Think about what sort of language is used
  - What arguments are presented by the writer?
  - Which of the two speeches do you think is most effective, and why?
  - Why do you think there were two different speeches?
  - What does this suggest about how men and women were seen at the time?

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Glossary​

Air raid - when an aircraft attacks something on the ground
Appreciate - grateful for
Casualties - injured people
Extinguished - put out, switched off
Foster parents - people caring for a child who is not related to them
Motivating - trying to make someone want to do something
Overhangs - above something
Persuasive - changing someone's mind
Precautions - making plans in case something happens
Unprepared - not ready
Recovering - looking for
Recruit - when someone joins a group
Volunteer - working for no pay
War effort - working to support the armed forces

 

[Somali Saayid]

@Yaraye @JackieBurkhart read up.

 

[Qeelbax]

Hahahahaa you think 4 waves of Feminism aint pulling your ass to the front lines with us too? Welcome, sister in arms! Destination? Donbas!

America forces men over the age of 18 to register for the draft. Only men. Even till this day. So women are free from it.

 

[Nomadic lord]

Ngl once I pull up the war is probably going to end.