This article should open a lot of eyes on if women ought to be put on a pedestal and never viewed with suspicion.
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I'm not a woman-hating MRA. This just goes to show that human nature being what it is, white-knighting girls that you don't know well is pathetic.
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Soldier Jilted
An American girl who had been going steady with a soldier posted overseas in 1943 jilted him after receiving a letter from him telling of the emotional strain of life at the front:
"He was sent to Italy where the fighting was very intense for a long time, and he wrote to me whenever he could. Then, in one of those V-mail letters, he told me he cried many nights during the heavy fighting. In my sheltered life with my stereotyped notions of what a man constituted, the thought of his crying turned my stomach. I was convinced I had loved a coward. I never wrote to him again."
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In addition to the social problems created by the migration of rootless teenage wives, there were the notorious 'war-brides' called 'Allotment Annies' who hustled departing soldiers into marriage to collect the twenty dollars a month the US Government automatically allotted to servicemen's wives. With a private's pay rising to fifty dollars a month for overseas service, some greedy 'Annies' took on four, five, and even six husbands. These unscrupulous women made bigamy a business, and in return for V-mail letters to GIs overseas they lived very well off the pale blue-green Government cheques. Some, with the financial acumen of actuaries, specialized in airmen, anticipating that their higher mortality rates would increase their chances of collecting the ten thousand dollar jackpot Government insurance cheque issued if their husband was killed in action.
Elvira Taylor achieved national notoriety as the 'Allotment Annie' who operated out of Norfolk Virginia and specialized in sailors. She managed to snare six live ones and was about to hook a seventh when she was arrested as a result of two of her 'husbands' starting a fight in an English pub when they showed each other her picture as their 'wife'. When they had been cooled off by the military police, they joined forces to expose the duplicitous Elvira, who was discovered by checking the navy pay records to have contracted four other bigamous marriages.
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An army flyer at a base-training camp in rural Illinois recalled that the adolescent prostitutes in the nearby town would 'pick up guys at a soda fountain or in movie theatres and take them out in daddy's car and go at it. Some of them took on four or five guys a night'. Most of the young servicemen preyed upon by these girls were lonely and naturally not averse to accepting the sexual invitations they were offered. The 'patriotutes' as they were dubbed in the American press often dispensed their favours for a Coca-Cola, a meal, or the price of a movie.
I'm not a woman-hating MRA. This just goes to show that human nature being what it is, white-knighting girls that you don't know well is pathetic.