I’ve predicted before that the day would come when Feminist historical revisionism would subvert much of the truth and lead to us all remembering “the men and women” who landed on the beaches of Normandy.
I further predicted that one day soon after that, the imagined bravery of women will be given more prominence and it will become “the women and men”.
Perhaps not long after that, it may become simply “the women who landed on the beaches of Normandy”. Nothing concerning the potential for historical revisionism in our culture would surprise me.
I now am certain that at least some of these predictions will come to pass, sooner rather than later. And it has already started in one telling of the Battle of Britain
The RAF Museum
I have visited the RAF Museum in London on a few occasions. My boy loves it there and it’s a nice day out with the family.
The museum shows a film several times a day which tells the story of the Battle of Britain where, to put it succinctly, a few hundred men stopped Germany from invading Britain. These airmen flew Spitfires and Hurricanes and stopped the attempted invasion in its tracks by protecting the airspace over England. As Winston Churchill put it “never have so many owed so much to so few [men]”.
Many school parties attend the showing of this film, groups of kids chattering amongst each other and absorbing some history while they’re about it.
But this film was fallacy posing as historical record. It left me shaking my head at how Feminism has sullied the very blood spilt by men in defending Britain.
The way it really was
Let’s be absolutely clear: without the military services of women, the outcome of the Battle of Britain would have been the same. Without men, however, it would not have been the “Battle of Britain” it would have been the “Walkover of Britain”.
The roles of men and women during this conflict (and others) were very different and ought to be made crystal clear.
Women helped in map rooms, nursed the wounded, managed paperwork and made the coffee. But it was men, and men alone, who did the flying and the dying. It was men alone, who were responsible for victory.
Of course, I know the revisionist agenda and understand what is being done and why.
I am familiar with the documentary editing process and I could see how they had gone out of their way to choose many clips featuring women in huge disproportion to the actual number of women involved in the RAF during this period.
I am familiar with scripting and I could note how the language was manipulated to present the overwhelming impression that as many women as men were flying and fighting in the skies over Britain against the German hordes. Indeed, the very word ‘men’ was used precisely once during the 15 minute presentation, yet there were precisely zero female combat pilots.
Sure, I knew all this.
But what about the class of school children in the seats around me? What impression would they be left with after watching this mockery of a historical film?
Why were the boys denied genuine information on what it has meant to be a man compared to what it has meant to be a woman? Why is it taboo to speak of and recognise uniquely male sacrifice?
Of course, we can pretend to ourselves that women have contributed to our (relative) freedom to the same degree as men, but then we could also say something like: “the women and men who give birth to our children”. It’s true that men and women both contribute to the creation of children, but is it remotely accurate to say that women and men give birth?
No.
It is travesties like this that are part of the reason I do this. That film is repeated every hour every day at the RAF museum. Those lies that are not quite lies, are repeated to hundreds of children week in week out.
This sort of Feminist propaganda sullies the memories of the men who fought and died for me, and for all of us Brits. It is sickening and hugely insulting to the memories of those men to not be distinguished as MEN in their sacrifice and valor.
510 British airmen died between July and October, 1940
When reciting details of the Battle of Britain, to mention women in the same breath as men; or even within the same sentence, or, to be brutally honest, even AT ALL, is simple fallacy and counts as a poor attempt to belittle male sacrifice and create a false history.
I will fight this misandry wherever I see it and I hope my films and commentary can serve as a small counterpoint to the lies, misrepresentation and rampant Feminist historical revisionism that we are undergoing.
So, to all who might want a more accurate idea of this pivotal point in British history: the Battle of Britain was an historic air campaign fought and won by men, with aircraft built by men, using weapons forged by men, assisted with radar conceived by men, and with fuel extracted by men.
And judging from how our society now treats men, all this was for the good, ironically, of pretty much everyone in Britain except men.
You broke my thoughts MWM…
I wondered if you’d get this one out in time. The masthead is a great image of two Hawker Hurricanes: largely wooden framed aircraft which I was surprised by when I saw one in the flesh, so to speak.
My personal favourite has to be the Spitfire…what a plane that was, and still is.
Many thanks for this truthful account of the “Battle of Britain”, simply, a quality piece buddy. On a positive note: there is plenty of material out there that hasn’t been re-jigged and spun, in order to make out like women made a real impact; that’s a complete joke!
I attended our local parade today and stood in silence at 11am…It was obvious to note that there wasn’t a single military woman there displaying any medals for so-called bravery there. I wonder why that was?
This coming Sunday I will again be paying my respects for the brave men that laid down there lives for us.
It’s all about top-billing for me. There’s a reason that movie posters have one or two star names on it and no one else. It doesn’t mean that the bit players are not important, it just means that some actors are a lot more important.
Another article about this soon. Big issue, as far as I’m concerned.
I presume you’re speaking metaphorically there MWM
Maybe you would enlighten me in a way that wasn’t so cryptic? It would be most appreciated.
I have heard already in the US media journalists and political “analysts” talking about the “american women and men that fought and died in Vietnam”, and another one saying the “Canadian men and women who fought on WW2″.
As I’ve said in an another post, this propaganda is meant to destroy any resemblance of a “masculine identity”. Once everyone will be brainwashed into thinking that on a battlefield men and women are “equal”, the only identity that will be left will be the female identity, which at that point will encapsulate both the traditional male identity and the traditional female identity.
The fact that they want to destroy the male identity, without replacing it with anything, it’s clear in feminist texts. They think that by doing so men will become so confused about themselves, that they’ll turn into shell of themselves, little “boys” easily manipulable by women and the Big Mother State.
Did any women die in Vietnam?
My Grandfather too fought for red army in WW2. In his last years, he shared his experience with us. He stated he was around seventeen years of age (it was mandatory for boys between 15 and 18 to take part in the war as per Stalin’s rule).In the warzone when he fired his rifle,the sound of the gun made his ears go ‘black’. He was too young to understand war and by seeing his colleauges being shot, he had an emotional trauma which existed till he breathed his last.The final seige of berlin, wherein the Red army used artillery made his heart skip beats. He was posted for a year. No parents,no fresh food,water and unhygienic conditions made him miserable.Every passing day was a nightmare for him.
The same thing applied to innumerable teen boys, who fought for their nations sacrificing their happiness,welfare.
And today, when all those young boys; now grandfathers are gathered for a parade to honour them, one will see
‘Храбрые мужчины и женщины красной армии’
meaning-
‘Brave men and women of red army’
All of history is being actively revised to portray women as heroes and victims simultaneously. It’s important to keep history accurate or else we pave the way for yet more undeserved elevation of women and equally undeserved vilification of men.
I copy/paste here an article written by Helen Lewis-Hasteley in the latest issue of the magazine “New Statesman”:
The sexist internet: Fighting misogyny “below the line”
Feminism has been such a success that I seldom have cause to think about why it’s so necessary. Sure, there is the occasional reminder – it was the 61st Miss World in London on 6 November, because women’s opinions are much more interesting if they’re wearing an evening gown – but I have a job, a vote and the choice of when and if to have children. I’m part of the luckiest generation of British women ever to have lived. In the past few days, however, I’ve had a
pretty revealing glimpse of a place where casual sexism and just plain woman-hating still exists:
internet comment threads. On 3 November, I published a post on the New Statesman
website in which nine female bloggers described the kind of threats they routinely face in
comments and emails, and on other websites.Every flavour of low-grade yuckiness was
there – you’re ugly, you’re fat, no man would want you, no one cares what you think – but
there was also a large slice of something much more sinister. The feminist activist Kate Smurth -
waite was told that someone should rip her tongue out “of her suckhole”. Cath Elliott,
a freelance writer, was told she was “too ugly to rape”. The London Evening Standard columnist
Rosamund Urwin heard that she deserved to have her fingers cut off. And, in a catalogue of
threats of sexual violence, Caroline Farrow, a religious blogger and former vicar’s wife, said she
was often informed that “people would deign to have sex with me either out of pity or to teach
me a lesson”. Occasionally, writers reported receiving emails with their personal details included,
or photos taken from Facebook. The blog post had a huge response, with dozens of women getting in touch to say they had faced much the same kind of comments – and dozens of men saying they had no idea the problem was so widespread. My worry is that such relentless, remorseless abuse is discouraging a generation of women from writing on the web. One established female columnist agreed that she might have given up early in her career,
had she faced similar abuse. It’s nice that people are talking about this, but what next? I hope that all the women who had been suffering in silence now realise they aren’t alone. I hope website bosses will ask themselves if they want to host this stuff. And I hope that the police will take such threats more seriously. Petra Davis, who used to blog about sex, told me: “When I started getting letters at my flat, I reported them to the police, but they advised me to stop writing provocative material.” Oh, and on a personal note, I wish that any man who thinks we’re all whining little flowers would post an article under a female pseudonym. It would be an education.
Share alike
There is one subject on which my opinion sharply diverges from that of my editor. It’s
Twitter, which he worries is eroding our attention spans, but which I love unequivocally (admittedly,I was never that good at concentrating to start with). One of the reasons that the
blog I wrote gathered such attention was that it was shared on the microblogging site by a host
of people – journalists, celebrity tweeters, activists. Since then I’ve heard from women (and
men) as far away as Australia and the US. Twitter, unlike many internet forums, has a
culture of using your real identity, and is therefore much more civil than the online badlands. Is it too much to suggest that all internet comments must be made under your real name?
A few days ago, I was listening to the radio while driving and a commercial came on for the United Services Automobile Association, a financial services company that exclusively serves active-duty military, veterans and their families. I have auto insurance and a credit card from USAA, via my dad who was in the Air Force during the Vietnam War.
This commercial began with a middle aged white woman saying her grandfather earned her USAA services in Normandy.
All good so far, right? But you can probably predict what came next, just as I did.
There was one more speaker, a young black boy. He said his mother earned him the service in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
You cannot find anywhere in the public mainstream where these illusions are not entertained. People really believe this stuff, since it’s everywhere.
Even one time when I posted to a financial forum, people who are obviously of above average intelligence, they believe this crap. Some of them believed that if the US devolved into tyranny, women would fight just as hard, and sacrifice their lives to restore the Republic.
Please, MWM, keep pressing the fight. Most men will say you’re scum for beating up on women’s feelings, but it has to be done if men are to ever regain respect.
“People really believe this stuff, since it’s everywhere.”
Unfortunately they do, they’ve been programmed to do so with years and years of “girl power” movies with females beating the crap out of armies of men. Most people on this matters are not governed by logic but by emotion. Those who create commercials and movies knows that and exploit these weakness at will.
The stupidity does not stop there either. The same guys who believe that small but well-trained women could beat the crap out of them also think that governments are right to take action to stop “violence against women”.
this is a very good article. One thing that at least gives me hope is that at least in films. Male sacrifice is portrayed well. Films like Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down are pretty much completely about male sacrifice and are very popular and successful films so maybe that is a good step in the right direction
I’m not sure it’s altogether good because it perpetuates the myth of men as the obligatory protectors and sacrificial sex. It grooms young men to sacrifice their lives and it grooms girls to consider it normal for men to sacrifice themselves. In fact you could regard the whole movie industry as a grooming industry. Successful movies will have a woman – a pretty one, of course – in jeopardy early into the movie. Then umpteen men will risk their lives or lose it to save and protect her. The most daring of the protectors will eventually be rewarded with sex. Warren Farrell goes over this at length in his book “The Myth of Male Power”.
It always brings tears to my eyes when I think of the actions of these valiant men. They gave us so much and they are the only reason why we are able to walk about in our countries. Men are the reason why humanity has excelled.
But when I see history textbooks tell me that it was WOMEN, and only WOMEN, who suffered, I feel an insatiable rage build up inside me. When I hear that men are monsters, that men start wars, that men oppress women, or even worse: “Women weren’t even considered people” – quote from my History Teacher, an Italian woman who wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for men.
Just earlier today I was reading about the French Revolution, and as expected, most of it was about how it affected women: how it did nothing for women, etc (I am serious. These are the words used in this textbook). I wonder if the publishers feel like they’re doing some sort of justice writing such man-hating garbage.
The feminist revision of history is very, very bad here in Canada. We are a young country, and our history has already been rewritten to talk about the mythical oppression of women. The battle of Passchendaele, where Canadian men were slaughtered and outnumbered by the Germans, it was men alone who fought and defended France. It was men who lived in horrible conditions, and it was men who had to endure the immense psychological trauma that followed the First World War.
Let us not forget Dieppe. Thousands of Canadian men were ruthlessly slaughtered. And the result? Women were denied work. I bet those men just feel so PROUD knowing that their own people treat them little more than animals. Dieppe was the graveyard of France. Now a thousand dead men will never rest peacefully, knowing that no one remembers what they did, or even cared. It…I can’t even talk right now. I am this angry.
When I hear of the wails of women, who cry that they’ve always had it hard, I want to smack them. I want to scream in their faces that they are nothing but miserable bitches who know NOTHING of real suffering. I want to scream: “How dare you…HOW DARE YOU try to say men are monsters while you are sitting here wailing while hundreds of thousands of men are dying! How dare you!”
We always say: “Lest we Forget”, but the truth is, we ARE forgetting. We’re forgetting the deeds of these men. It is unfair that we trade in their sacrifices for the moans and cries of women. It makes me sick.
It makes me cry. Especially with those pictures of those men…smiling…knowing that if they die, they did it for their country.
No such valiance or pride now. It’s all for support of these vile creatures which I dare not call “female”.
In Australia the situation is ludicrous.
On ANZAC day only general words like “the fallen”, “Aussie heroes”, “diggers”, “troops”, “young Australians”, etc are used instead of saying the unsayable, that the soldiers were men.
Of course these terms are used only when there is a positive connotation, such as honour or sacrafice, we still hear about “male violence” and “male aggression”.
Basically if there is a positive connotation war and the military are disassociated from having anything to do with males intrinsically. All positive traits are framed in politically correct, gender neutral terms.
Of course I still see the same old negative associations, “men start wars”, etc.
Also if the news reports a crime the perpetrators will inevitably be described as men, or young men, as opposed to our war dead who are depicted as anything but.
And of course, there’s the dozens of TV series about that period (Love in a Cold Climate, The Camomile Lawn, etc.) portraying women “comforting” British pilots and soldiers in between missions until telegrams arrive with “missing, presumed dead”. And lo how the poor women cries over the death of their lovers. The endless story (and History) of the disposable male. The human species is as hard-wired for stupidity as any other species. Instances of genius are individual anomalies: they give the false impression of an “intelligent species” because they’re cumulative over time.
At least comforting and crying conveys some level of compassion. Contrast this with the attitude of the last few decades when we have been almost universally despised and demonised, emasculated and ridiculed.
Apparently this represents a “progressive”, enlightened, forward thinking mindset. Thankfully I have a sense of humour because you have to be able to laugh at this cosmic joke. A demented laughter that slowly builds until the men in white coats come to take you away.
Actually I used to think of humans as innately stupid because of misandry so I understand where you’re coming from. On the other hand misandry is embraced fervently by the intelligensia, by academics and “progressive” PC types, the cultural elites. Because of this I’ve concluded that it’s the result of something so primal that it over rides the conscious mind. It’s like when Malcolm Muggeridge was disillusioned by the intellectuals he used to idolise when he realised they had been decieved into believing the soviet union was a workers paradise. History will repeat itself.
There is no limit whatsoever to their lying and misandry!
Nor do those grotesque and soulless hags have any resepect or decency at all: Lying at the expense of and rendering to total insignificance, the unrivaled courage of TRUE HEROS in the way they have, is utterly unforgivable and something should be done about it!
To me: this is a gesture akin to or even worse than the treasonist ceremony of burning the Union Jack!
Those unscrupulous whores should realize (and probably do but don’t care) that if it wasn’t for the unparalled bravery of all of those men, they wouldn’t be here demonizing and destroying men the way they are today: by criminalizing normal male sexuality. No, they would more likely be REAL victims and slaves to somebody or something and it surely wouldn’t be to ordinary, decent men of the calibre that saved their civilization and nation in 1940; or the men of today that they can at best refer to as ‘the patriarchy’ either…
Those men in effect, gave their lives so that these sub-humans could destroy their sons, grandsons – all men and boys and eventually: women and children too, making a total mockery of the great Western civilizations and cultures that positive, creative and harmonious MEN and (NON-feminist) women took thousands of years to build…