The Order of the White Feather in THE KING'S MAN and Its Impact on WWI Recruitment - #shorts #short

In this video we discuss about the movie "The King's Man," Conrad presents a white feather to his father, which historically symbolized cowardice for men who did not participate in war. This was based on a real-life phenomenon called the Order of the White Feather, which aimed to shame men into military service and was successful in achieving its objective, but sometimes the wrong individuals were targeted.

[model-man]

Woman did this alot and got carried away.Openly shaming men that had already been badly wounded and were unknowingly crippled.

[duncanread]

Also one silly bint gave a bloke a white feather and he slapped her round the face with his army pay book.

[redarogallo]

Only after the Vietnam war did "White Feather" become a name that inspired fear and awe.

[finaladvance]

They ended up having to make a sort of medal for men working in war time industries (think bomb production) to show they were already helping the military even if they weren't actively fighting cause too many were getting white feathers and causing issues for logistics

[Mirokuofnite]

"Oh, John! Why can't you be a REAL MAN and fight in the trenches?"

[CrimsonDemon]

They shame people for litterally not having a deathwish like they're walking that path with a smile on their face

[oldnite]

And women have the audacity to say they were the ones who had a harder life

[Wanking_wanker]

My favorite part of the movie was the after credit scene where they revealed hitler like a marvel villain

[blagger]

My Grandfather was giving one while he was on leave from the front.

[warbler]

I wouldn't say anyone was ever the right targets of a white feather...to go die in a pointless war

[Pərfectchāøs]

Dying for the elites of the world is the stupidest reason to die

[ReactiveHarpy]

a lot of boys joined up and died cause of this stupid movement

[Saint_nobody]

The late Heath Ledger had a movie about the white feathers. Seen it once on like ifc years ago. Pretty good imho

[SimonIsVeryHandsome]

Imagine serving the military until old age and seeing a soldier giving you a white feather

[jeffschroder]

Now that we have equality, we need to start getting these women to the front lines immediately....

[timandwendydavis]

The movie 4 feathers is based off this principle

[robertphillips]

The Sailors on Q-Ships would receive them as well.

[freedomloverusa]

An many women murdered countless men, by forcing them to go to the most pointless, stupid war in Human history.

[LBCB]

it strikes me as odd that carlos hathcock wore a white feather as a Sniper????
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its probably just a crazy coincidence..?? but any other color would make more sense..?(id wear a black one*..?)
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[colonelturmeric]

To stand up to being called a coward, and remain at home took a different kind of courage. When everyone hates you for not wanting to kill other young men or needlessly die for the sake of politics, you’re walking an almost biblical path.